socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. What is the site all about? I originally started a local coupon site for my Irvine neighborhood, CheapIrvine, where we were distributing 15,000 coupons a month. How did DealPerk.com come about?

Orange County 170

Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

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. That, combined with being early on the social web, was the nexus from where MomentFeed came about. For the first time, that social media activity is actually taking place at the point of sale.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Founded in 2007. Employees: 27.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. So, what Quigo would do is analyze a web page for Overture and tell them what they thought it was about.

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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. What is Sidebar all about? So how does this fit into the mobile world and B2B?

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Custom 189

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

If you look at the site, it's comprised principally of individual bulletin boards for private companies. Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. People can come to the site, pay you directly, and we provide them with access to your genie, and away they go. It has links to supporting web site and resources.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

We provide, develop, and deliver a video-based software platform, which provides sales and support for consumer products, and specifically for products that are complicated. The specific experience of the consumer is a video instruction guide, which is either on a manufacturer's web site, a retailer's website, or on a smart phone.

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Guide Training Platform Product 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The client then presents the consumer with the opportunity to have a dashboard view of social networking sites. Or, they can experience the full site, and we'll optimize the site in the client for a specific handset. The second customer is the social networking sites. So we sell into the carriers. So it's been a year.

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Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

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? It's something like between $50M and $100M in sales per year. It's the eBay of professional documents.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

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. What is IBN Sports? That's the first time it's ever been done in high school sports.

Content 212

Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2010

What if you could go to a web site and find all the recipes you could make today, with just the ingredients you already have in your kitchen? Another series of searches on Google Patents and the US Patent Office site and Free Patents Online is in order at this point. I’m going to start a website to offer this service!”

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Ideas Patents Startup Google 48

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. 8 ) SocialStay is effectively a B-to-B, SaaS product that requires you to simultaneously speak to several audiences (hotels, travelers, travel sites, etc.). You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. I don't have a long sales cycle, because I'm talking to people who have already chosen Jetty.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

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. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

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. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

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Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Every web product ultimately has a bunch of user flows contained within it. For example, there might be a series of flows in how users come into the site, starting with ads, SEO, or otherwise. Most sites don’t have to deal with this so I’ll stop here! It is leads you need to make sales in B2B. August 2007 (7).

Startup 29

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Our internal development team was busy focused on developing our core product, but I needed to develop an application with an attractive, easy to use web user interface. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Startup 3.0:

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development CTO Hire Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. At Starting Point (Startup 1.0) , an Internet search engine, I would put links up on the site to announce new ideas. Within weeks, we shortened our sales cycle. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Starting Point was best at searching the search engines and, as a result, we quickly became the 7th most popular site on the Internet. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Startup 40

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. user interface was very similar to Google’s user interface in the sense that it was a very simple, plain web page that had one search box and a button to search. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. With the web, you can change things everyday because it is always in your control. Be scrappy.

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