InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

Skimlinks has proven effective for thousands of publishers (including, for a time, Pinterest), because its frictionless, self-serve platform automatically generates revenue from previously existing online content. I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007.

Customer 226

Customer Custom Entrepreneur Advertising 226

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Intuit's Calabasas-based Digital Insight unit is expanding its offerings today, saying that it is making its online financial management solution, FinanceWorks, available to bank and credit unions who aren't using its Internet banking platform. Digital Insight became part of Intuit in 2007.

Calabasas 145

Calabasas Pricing Tool Platform 145

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together. So, we took that contest and crowdsourcing platform, and started ArtisticHub. What's the story behind Deal Current?

Platform 263

Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

Sales 282

Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. Invest more heavily in platform services. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. And Greg has had the most influence on Upfront Ventures’ strategy since he joined. I tried to be at every event.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Journal Invest Santa Monica 150

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.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Skimlinks has proven effective for thousands of publishers (including, for a time, Pinterest), because its frictionless, self-serve platform automatically generates revenue from previously existing online content. I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007.

Customer 133

Customer Custom Entrepreneur Advertising 133

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

What we're giving companies, is a platform to create, manage, and measure perks for all of their employees. I have a number of investments tackling the SMB space, including InDinero and Postling, all creating platforms to help small and medium sized businesses in some distinct way. There's a fairly complex platform we've patented.

Startup 216

Startup Technical Review Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. Was it difficult from shifting from an agency to becoming a platform developer? Matt Cooper: What is really unique about Hollywood-style banner ads, is they've been video-based since 2007. It certainly has challenges.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood HTML Software Review Advertising 100

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. Tell me about Connected Travel?

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through. I realized that I should build a platform to put content. platform, turned it into an art site, and it just took off from the get go. That's when the light bulb went on. I figured there.

Santa Monica 258

Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. Brett Rossman: We have a platform we''ve built, and which we are constantly evolving called Magneto.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

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. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability.

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. Since its origin as an academic research project in 2007, Eucalyptus has become the dominant open source cloud solution, boasting over 25,000 clouds formed.

Cloud Computing 212

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an open “publish to the world” platform and the trend continued. So why is this important for businesses?

Social Network 235

Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And how are these concerns exacerbated given that these authors’ target audience is too young to buy cryptocurrency on platforms like Coinbase and Gemini? But monetizing fan fiction through online platforms is a trickier matter. Does minting those stories as NFTs affect the copyright of those stories?

Writing 196

Writing Outsource Development Technical Review Examples 196

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. Michael Witz: We've been building smaller, lightweight games on the Facebook platform since early 2008. How did you start company?

IP 217

IP PHP Design Startup 217

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market. I ended up switching to selling on Stubhub in 2007, after eBay made it much more difficult to search for tickets. Describe SaveFans and what it does? It ends up, our margins went way up.

Ticketmaster 253

Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Activity 253

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit.

Startup 195

Startup Platform Sites Java 195

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based ManiaTV (www.maniatv.com) is one of the companies, having moved here in 2007 from Denver to take advantage of the local talent. Peter Hoskins: Mania TV sells, produces, packages, and distributes original programming on the Internet and other new media platforms. Creators now have a platform to launch their business.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Advertising Hollywood Startup 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. The whole platform is build on the software-as-a-service model. READ MORE>>.

Guide 113

Guide Training Platform Product 113

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. I understand his frustration. You create something that has value and gets traction and yet youve created it in a way that the software is considered "free."

Southern California 150

Southern California CTO Coach CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell. They launched this business in 2007, with the concept of building another virtual world and large scale game. How did the firm start? Adam and Donna had founded a virtual world website in 1999 called Neopets. Why the interest in that area?

Beverly Hills 182

Beverly Hills Advertising Design Activity 182

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

We have a market-leading tag management platform that is the on-ramp to a marketing-led customer management platform,” Lunsford said. Lunsford oversaw WebSideStory’s IPO in 2004, and Limelight’s IPO in 2007. For us, it’s never been about tags or Javascript. It’s been about data.

Customer 40

Customer Custom San Diego JavaScript 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Lesson learned (to me at least) – let people get stinking rich off your platform and tax ‘em later.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

At this stage, both candidates have given major economic addresses, and both parties have published their platforms. The word “innovation” appears 22 times in the Republican platform and 14 times in the draft Democratic platform. Democrats: Clinton said back in 2007 that the U.S. The Democratic platform says that the U.S.

Education 40

Education Platform Training High Tech 40

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. Crickler was originally licensed way back in 2004, because we believed in the title, but the platforms at the time couldn't handle it.

Mobile 216

Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

Dan Gilman: We provide a cloud-based platform for medical practices to more efficiently coordinate and communicate with representatives, from pharmaceutical and other medical companies who are calling on their practice. That was back in 2007, when we started. What is RxVantage?

Marketing 231

Marketing Software Education Startup 231

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

When I started in 2007, one thing we did even in the early days was engage with operators. Yan Hui: On one hand, our software, because it is sitting on the protocol stack, is pretty platform independent and platform agnostic. What makes individual telecom carriers decide they want to implement your software?

Networking 153

Networking Startup Software Tips 153

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When Troy and Lady Gaga were introduced the market had been in a free fall from the financial crisis of 2007-09 and Troy had had some setbacks professionally while Lady Gaga was sleeping on her grandmother’s couch in West Virginia, having just been dropped by Def Jam Records. Same with Gaga. “It was a series of inflection points.

Mentor 150

Mentor Venture Capital Marketing Product 150

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. So, that first part is just understanding how to engage, where, what platforms they are engaging on, and what the value of that is. How did the company come about?

Social Media 248

Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

In late 2007, we had a group of guys were creating concepts about social identity. We had a concept around creating a platform, using open standards, to resolve lots of the issues surrounding social networking and the issues of identity. In late 2007, Chi.mp There was a collective process in its making, and where it came from.

Social Network 147

Social Network San Diego Sites Startup 147

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007.

Google 264

Google Organic Search Sites Startup 264