Hollywood Web Television Meetup: November
SoCal Tech Calendar
NOVEMBER 6, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 -- Hollywood Web Television Meetup: November. Join us for the 3rd Hollywood Web Television Meetup. See [link] (more).
Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?
Berkonomics
JUNE 1, 2023
Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who see a new marketplace or niche or how to reach the mass market in ways not previously attempted. Innovation does not always equal invention. And innovation is what creates value. Sometimes, innovators enable unfinished visions of others.
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Swagbucks Tops $27M In Rewards
socalTECH
AUGUST 8, 2012
Who knew surfing the web could be so rewarding? Los Angeles-based Swagbucks says that so far, it has awarded $27 million worth of gift cards, physical items, and payments via PayPal to its users, just for searching the web, watching videos, doing market research surveys, and other activities. READ MORE>>.
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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?
Berkonomics
APRIL 20, 2017
Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who find a new marketplace or niche – or how to reach the mass market in new ways. It is not hard to find strands of gold in the carnage left by failed businesses lost when a bubble bursts, such as in 1857, 1902, 1929, 2001 and 2008.
FlipGloss.com Targets Fashion Market
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 19, 2009
Venice-based FlipGloss Media announced this morning that it has launched a web site targeted at the fashion, design, travel, and lifestyle photography markets. FlipGloss said it is funded by Forbes Media, and received an undisclosed funding round in March of 2008. The advertising-driven site said it was founded by Yahoo!
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New Incubator, Frost Venture Partners, Targets Big Data
socalTECH
MARCH 21, 2012
Adding another group to the growing list of Southern California startup accelerators and incubators: a new, Orange County incubator, Frost Venture Partners , looks to be gearing up to tackle the "big data" market. Frost is well known for founding DATAllegro, which he successfully built and sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008.
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164 The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.
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8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing
SoCal CTO
MARCH 13, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.
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FTD Groupon Deal Goes South
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 11, 2011
A nationwide offer from FTD , the flower delivery service owned by Woodland Hills-based United online , with daily deals phenomenon Groupon has gone south, after consumers complained that the price presented to Groupon users was more than the price a user would get by going directly to FTD's web site. READ MORE>>.
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Total Immersion Powers New Iron Man 2 App
socalTECH
JUNE 23, 2010
The firm said its is providing augmented reality features for a digital promotion around the film, as part of a marketing campaign from LG. The firm moved its headquarters to LA in 2008. LG Ally is LG's first U.S. Android phone. Financial details of the win were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.
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Internet Brands Sees Quarterly Boost, Buys Three Websites
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
Los Angeles-based Internet Brands announced its fourth quarter and fiscal 2008 results, reporting that--despite the recession--the firm saw an increase in its fourth quarter revenues of 8%, or $27.0M for 29 website related acquisitions during 2008. for 29 website related acquisitions during 2008. versus $24.9M a year ago.
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124 Interview with Mehdi Daoudi, CatchPoint Systems
socalTECH
JULY 13, 2010
Mehdi Daoudi is CEO of CatchPoint Systems (www.catchpoint.com), a new Los Angeles startup focused on the web site and web application monitoring industry. We're trying to make monitoring of web sites and applications sexy and simple. That's why web performance and web monitoring mean serious dollars.
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232 What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2010
And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees.
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Tealium Adds $35M to Expand Technology, Sharpen Customer Focus
Xconomy
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. It’s about defining your data across the Web and now mobile.”. It’s been about data.
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40 Interview with Daniel Scalisi, MobileCause
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. It's a simple web service, where a customer can log in and can simply create and deploy any level of mobile donation or messaging campaign. Daniel Scalisi: I've been in the mobile market for fifteen years.
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Report: Online Search Terms Reflect Financial Turmoil
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
A study of online search terms, released this week by comScore, is finding that the turmoil in the financial market is not only taking its toll on consumer's pocketbooks, but also their online search behavior. comScore is a firm that tracks online web traffic and ecommerce.
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100 Local.com Reports Traffic Numbers
socalTECH
JULY 8, 2009
The firm claimed that the traffic was up 5% from Q1, and up 32% from the similar quarter in 2008. Local.com's web sites allow users to search for local businesses and services. READ MORE>>.
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The Art and Science of Search Engine Optimization
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 8, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 -- "The Art and Science of Search Engine Optimization" LABTC. Contact Ingrid Goodman at the BTC, 626-296-6302, or Ingrid.Goodman@lacdc.org.
VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).
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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote.
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Interview with Quinn Curtis, BrightCloud
socalTECH
JULY 16, 2010
Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. We're also very much marching down the path of IP reputation as well.
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Web 2.0 & eHealth
AeA Los Angeles Council
JULY 22, 2008
The market was recently forecasted to grow from $7.5-billion billion in 2008 to $11.3 We’ve already seen how Web 2.0 eHealth is an emerging field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and business. billion in 2013.
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40 This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 18, 2010
The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. We talked about Facebook. Total raised: $5.0mm.
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Reaching Girls With MobiGirl Media's Girl-Friendly Mobile Ad Network
socalTECH
APRIL 30, 2013
Carol Hall and I started our business Absentminded in 2008, making iPhone applications. In the course of doing that, we realized there was this market opportunity, and set out to create the ad network. Jennifer Noonan: The application market is very crowded, and both sides of the coin are trying to figure out how to make it work.
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208 This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2010
Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon.
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AUGUST 7, 2009
Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Cox Communications - Orange County - Looking for Product Marketing Manager. Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. Need office or Tech Space?
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Say Hello Santa! | iOS App Makes It Possible For The Whole Family to Call Santa Claus
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 10, 2013
With great Santa Art, the Elves have been working on this app ever since the App Store opened in 2008. ” The team says they will be able to monetize as each call is an in-app purchase on the iOS app, or an online CC transaction for a web call. The post Say Hello Santa! |
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102 With $30M Infusion, Certona Aims for Bigger Share of Digital Retail
Xconomy
OCTOBER 16, 2016
After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It
Interview with Tom Allanson, PerfectForms
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 4, 2010
PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. I decided to get back to startups in August of 2008. The product has now been on the market for a little over a year. How long has your software been available to customers?
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150 This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 3, 2010
Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. Competes with Seesmic , HootSuite , Brizzly.
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214 Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors
socalTECH
JULY 24, 2009
Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Cox Communications - Orange County - Looking for Product Marketing Manager. Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).
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Inside the Realms of Ruin
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 26, 2021
“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. I think NFTs are just a very new misunderstood market, and I feel that it’s really hard to step back and explain it,” said Megan Manzano, a literary agent working with young adult authors who voiced concerns about Realms of Ruin on Twitter.
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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome
socalTECH
JUNE 30, 2010
It ran in April of 2008. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. The idea emerged from that real life pain in the market, and as we like to say, we've grown incrementally from there. Our go-to-market strategy is closer to Facebook. We hope to have that to market within six months.
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187 StockTwits Acquires Mobile App SparkFin to Add Fintech Services
Xconomy
JANUARY 19, 2017
StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lindzon led StockTwits as CEO until last year, and continues as chairman.
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40 Interview with Vic Caretti, Loudvine
socalTECH
MAY 24, 2011
I actually worked in the offline business world until Web 1.0. Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. Vic Caretti: When I started this in 2008, I didn't even look at the business model. Good music actually does the marketing for them. What's your background and how did you get into this? READ MORE>>.
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Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple
SoCal CTO
MARCH 20, 2007
In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time). Whats interesting is that Ive been seeing opportunities to use social marketing for businesses that typically target Time Poor audiences. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.
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Innovation and Geography
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 20, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.
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150 Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital
SoCal CTO
MARCH 20, 2007
► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.
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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen
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. Prior to that, the big title at MyNUMO was Match 3D, which was a very ambitious title in 2008, and was a freebie game. We also have a bunch of casino games.
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216 Map of VC Investments
SoCal CTO
MARCH 9, 2007
Posted byTony Karrer at 9:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.
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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
-Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.
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TZ Presents 2013 Startup Forecast
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 17, 2012
Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2013, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. In 1991, Marks and a partner transformed ailing video game giant Activision into a $14B market cap video game industry leader.
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110 This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.
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240 Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker
socalTECH
JUNE 1, 2011
One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform.
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