socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of Disney, is one of the investors in Bay Area-based mobile games advertising firm Greystripe , which raised a $5.5M Greystripe's services insert in-game ads into mobile games, and the firm also operates the GameJump.com mobile games portal site. Series C funding today.

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Steamboat Ventures Invest Burbank Advertising 100

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of Disney, is one of the investors in Bay Area-based mobile games advertising firm Greystripe , which raised a $5.5M Greystripe's services insert in-game ads into mobile games, and the firm also operates the GameJump.com mobile games portal site. Series C funding today.

Steamboat Ventures 100

Steamboat Ventures Invest Burbank Advertising 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2009

Travel search site LowFares.com , which is owned by Oversee.net, is reporting that it has seen a jump in visitors to the site of 73 percent since the beginning of the year. LowFares said the search engine marketing efforts were the result of additional advertiser relationships the firm has secured in recent months. READ MORE>>.

Oversee.net 100

Oversee.net Newsletter SoCalTech Sites 100

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

In the rush toward the daily deals space, it seems like there is at least one, new, daily deals site created every day. It's an incredibly crowded industry, which not only includes giants like Groupon and LivingSocial, but countless smaller sites, newspapers, and others all looking for a piece of the action. What is Deal Current?

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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Internet Brands Westlake Village Woodland Hills Beverly Hills 190

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. So, buyers will come to our site, which has all of these beautiful images from all. I grew it from 2007 through. building a web site for him.

Santa Monica 258

Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Users: More than 280mm monthly users worldwide use its apps or see its advertising.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. Thanks, and good luck!

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 We had to go to 1200 ski resort sites to gather data in a consistent format, so that people could do a good comparison. Although we're not going to be focused on revenues for a year, it's clear at this time that this kind of real estate is very valuable for advertisers.

Startup 210

Startup Advertising Examples Santa Barbara 210

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. John Wanamaker.

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Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising. Jeff Green: I started my career in online advertising, as a media buyer.

Advertising 157

Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. He wanted Quigo to be in the business of letting advertisers buy directly into the system.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. We did a successful trial in 2008. Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds.

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Custom 189

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. How long has the site been up and running? What have you learned so far in getting the site up and running? How Ranker came about, is I love to make lists.

Startup 195

Startup Platform Sites Java 195

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace.

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? John Mudge: We launched IBN Sports in January of 2007, focused on creating an interactive, broadcast network for sports. It's a combination of sponsorship, advertising, and for some of our partners, fee for that content.

Content 212

Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. I believe that the advertisers they started with were probably disappointed that the cost per customer acquisition was not the same as search. Broadcast isn't like that.

Google 124

Google Advertising Media Startup 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace.

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

We caught up with Babette to get the story behind the site, and how the site helped her escape from the world of reality television. The base of the site is instead of a recipe swap, it's more about integrating recipes and figuring out the conversations that happen around recipes. What is BakeSpace? I scratched my own itch.

Social Network 174

Social Network Startup Sites Networking 174

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Provides publishers innovative site-search tools that enhance user engagement ( icanhazcheeseburger.com and Fred Wilson’s blog avc.com use Lijit as does Feld.com [but he's an investor]). Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. I’ve already started the business modeling. Venture Financings we Discussed. Competitors: Google.

Venture Capital 230

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Fandango 230

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site? That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. This new company is in the Internet advertising (technology) space. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer?

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2011

Kevin Ham was the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of in 2007, reports Business 2.0 Type in "weddingshoes.com" - a site that Ham happens to own - and you'll land on what looks like a shoe-shopping portal, filled with links from dozens of retailers. Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap.

Company 81

Company Companies Pricing Web 81

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages. We are not a social site per say but there are many social elements we have or will work into the site.”. The one really cool think about a consumer site is running into people that actually used FindTheBest to make a big decision.

Blogging 219

Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Jon, i.e. The International Man of Advertising, developed his success at award-winning traditional agencies such at Leagas/London, Fallon/NY, Wieden/Amsterdam and Publicis MOJO/Sydney on global brands such as: Nike, Adidas, Diesel, Powerade, Gor-tex and Coke. Confirmed Panelists Include: Jonathan Rosen luckyny.com. .

Social Media 75

Social Media Social Network Media Writing 75

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages. We are not a social site per say but there are many social elements we have or will work into the site.”. The one really cool think about a consumer site is running into people that actually used FindTheBest to make a big decision.

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. in terms of time spent on the sites.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

After some healthy wrangling with the “The BuddyHelp Should Be Free” folks, we eventually made a slight modification to the site, as shown below. Advertising – Companies such as, eFax and YouSendIt generate significant revenue by presenting relevant ads to their respective free users. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

Custom 162

Custom Customer Technical Support Startup 162

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Internet advertising is good. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Internet advertising is good. L90 was the premier advertising network on the Internet.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. XXXL t-shirt that I really like to get a descriptive link from this site.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

SoCal Delicious

APRIL 5, 2010

Home About Us Newsstand locations Special Section Nominations Stock Index Advertising Contact Search Subscribe Weekly Features Week in Review Top 25 Lists Top Stories Local News Opinion Calendar Ongoing Events Monthly Reports Central Coast East Ventura Nonprofits Technology Small Business Women and Co. that still remain unrecognized.

Santa Barbara 53

Santa Barbara Thousand Oaks Oracle Ventura 53

Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

Internet advertising is good. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Advertising was the answer! . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer? How will we.

Startup 40

Startup Advertising Web Design Venture Capital 40

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

AdWords is on Google.com, AdSense is a distributed platform across many different Web sites where if youre a small publisher and you put AdSense on your Web site and someone clicks, you get part of the revenue and Google gets part of the revenue. www.goodandgreen.biz Microsoft Office Buy Office Small Business 2007 now.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102