InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Nothing they learned (at Business School) will help them succeed at innovation.” In addition, successful consumer ventures serve extremely large and lucrative markets, making them attractive for MBA’s driven by out-sized outcomes. Consumer-facing ventures also rely on complex logistics and hyper-efficient distribution channels.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Allegis Startup Competition 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. Starting in 2010, we started focusing on that. However, that''s who we were in 2002, and stopped being in 2010. Who we are today, is an ad technology company.

Media 162

Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

As 2010 approaches, a whole new year of exciting start-ups, tech news, gadgets, and much more is ahead. We already have a jammed packed schedule for 2010. We already have a jammed packed schedule for 2010. Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. HUBkap allows you to: Plan.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. I stayed close.

Invest 340

Invest Venture Capital Startup News 340

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Our mutual friend mentioned to me over breakfast during the late summer of 2010 that Uber was raising a seed funding round. He is now a Senior Executive at Uber, although back in 2010 he had no formal affiliation with the company. At that moment, I could have been one of Travis’ first pitches, if I had been curious to learn more.

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Venture Capital Email Invest Services 100

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

When “Law and Order” ended its twenty-year run in 2010, it had already cemented its place as one of the longest-running television dramas in history. As Vertical Networks was winding down, Solve was spinning up with help from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, and Advancit Capital.

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Social Media Media Startup Mobile 131

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

With the rise of location-based check-ins from Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook, Twitter, and others, there's suddenly lots more data that marketers want to parse through to make sense of how consumers are interacting with their brands. I was there from when the company launched until March of 2010, when I left to start MomentFeed.

Social Media 248

Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

How do you make sense of all that data and actually help it to drive business decisions? Pasadena-based UberMedia (Www.ubermedia.com) is taking that data, and sorting through it to help businesses. At the beginning, we were just collecting all of those data signals to improve the user experience on our app.

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Advertising Mobile Social Media Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2010

This year BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2010 is set to be their biggest yet. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Your loyalty program members are your most engaged consumer and chances are they have a social media presence on Twitter, Facebook etc.

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Social Media Blogging Media Web 63

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

What Consumers and Businesses Want. Marketing techniques have evolved to work beyond the everyday concept of an ad presenting a good, service, or brand and telling the consumer or business what it is. This emphasis on engagement is helping many businesses stand out from the onslaught of advertisements that can plague consumers daily.

Advertising 69

Advertising Training Customer Custom 69

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Not really helping you do something better. And so it occurs to me that many startups in the consumer world are now truly hits driven like video games or movies. To do so you must truly provide value that changes the way that end-consumers do something in their lives that will persist. You play with it for a few weeks or months.

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Startup Cloud Computing Venture Capital Marketing 309

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm is a maker of mobile computing devices, including the Pixi and Pixi Plus; HP: “Our intent is to double down on WebOS”; helps HP compete in mobile computing with Apple, RIM, Google, and MSFT. 14mm in Series C; $25mm in Series B raised in March 2010; $44mm raised in total. Read more: SEC S1 Filing (amended 05-03-2010) , peHUB.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Jonathan Simkin: What makes us unique from other sites, is we're here to help students save time, in addition to money, when they buy books. The act only came into effect in 2010, at which point we built a system to try to find out that information for as many schools as possible. I graduated in May of 2010. What's SwoopThat?

UCSD 185

UCSD Course Startup Sites 185

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel-good startups. And being populist helps that.

Invest 284

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 284

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

Dollar Shave Club came to me about two years ago, in December of 2010, when I met my co-founder, who was my friend's fianc's father. I really think this is the brand of the future, which is talking directly to consumers. How do you expect to win consumers over? In consumer packaged goods, it's all about brand.

Dollar Shave Club 210

Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

For today's interview, we caught up with Clark Landry , the chairman of GraphEffect (www.grapheffect.com), a Santa Monica company which is helping other companies to hone their advertising on Facebook. Clark Landry: GraphEffect is a company that helps other companies advertise effectively on Facebook. Thanks for the time today!

Advertising 198

Advertising Startup Santa Monica Social Network 198

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Sure, a great operating system is one of the things Microsoft is most known for, but there are dozens of other Microsoft products and services that help businesses grow. Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold, and a large number of those go towards corporate use. That’s 133,333 units per day. 5. Giving back.

Writing 88

Writing Training Email .Net 88

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Jeremy Gocke: With Fliptu, we're aiming to fix the disjointed media and product discovery process for consumers and brands. It's extremely noisy out there, and right now consumers are essentially being forced to drink from the social media fire hose. It reduces a lot of the friction between the consumer and the brand.

Social Media 268

Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

Think "Consumer Electronics Show meets E! The event was created in 2010 by Hank and John Green, when they hosted approximately 1,400 industry insiders and fans. Once WalMart has helped you establish your brand, it will then be possible to sell premium products via other channels, such as boutique shops or even directly to consumers.

Course 190

Course Advertising Social Media Content 190

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2012

We were acquired in June of 2010, and it's been 21 months now, almost two years. We partnered with the world's largest distributors, Ingram Micro and others, to provide great services, prices, and products to consumers. We're here to help them grow. How has life under Rakuten been? Neel Grover: It's been great.

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Sites Commerce Pricing Product 210

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. We spent a lot of time developing talent coming out of YouTube, and helped to grow that business.

Startup 140

Startup Content Metrics Platform 140

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. The company combines high-quality information about genetics, with tools that use family health history to help identify personal disease risk. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

22, 2010. IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. Organizing even simple events like dinner or drinks is a time consuming and frustrating experience. The moment is finally here.

Company 106

Company Companies Web Evite 106

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. TRUSTe serves consumer end-users, small-to-medium sized businesses and large enterprises. Potential competitors: Gilt Groupe , ShoeDazzle.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

The consumer Web continues to drive social business While some advances in social media are happening in the enterprise space as well, the real story continues to be the Web as it continues to forge quickly ahead in terms of sheer innovation and raw output to shape the latest developments in social computing.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! Fast-forward two years – DataPop has not just radically transformed search; its creative optimization platform is now matching all modalities of online ads to consumers’ intent.

Content 171

Content Platform Paid Search OpenX 171

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

That was in 2010, it's all been venture for the last seven and a half years. I imagine the link with Ashton, Guy, and Ron really helped opened up doors for A-Grade? We know what we're good at, which is mostly consumer facing technology. Do you think that helps in the venture investment world? Chris Hollod: For sure.

Invest 157

Invest Startup Hollywood Echo Park 157

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Yet 2010 is already showing me how connected our lives and our health are starting to become. So as I contemplated the kick off to 2010 I thought again about Weight Watchers. So everyday I get a breakdown of the calories, fat, carbs and protein that I consume. Seemed such a fantasy back in 1992. Pretty cool stuff.

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

What interests me is that with the credit crunch we know that credit has tightened significantly for businesses and consumers. Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. Merchants send huge volumes of emails to consumers.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. " 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Now I have.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

We're doing our development in El Monte, and we think we'll be operational by the beginning of next year, and full scale by the end of 2010, with product launch in 2011. Willis Hsieh: When I first met Dina, she was a technology transfer associate at UCLA, and she helped us get our license to the technology.

UCLA 159

UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The really important distinction is that non-technical business people can build, deploy, integrate, and create reports on these applications to help them run their business. H&R Block bought my company a year and a half into that venture, which was a great deal, and we helped H&R block integrate the systems together.

Startup 150

Startup San Diego Entrepreneur Tool 150

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2010

Fliptop provides more features to help the consumer get the exact content they are looking for. The second is providing a browser bookmarklet so the consumer doesn't have to wait for the publisher to begin using Fliptop. So getting publishers to integrate it might be their best bet in terms of getting the consumer to use it.

RSS 40

RSS Content News Google 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. 11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. Read more: TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

We are now harnessing the ‘social’ aspect of the system where businesses and consumers begin to contribute to the data by adding or updating products listings as well as rate and review products.”. Money was less an issue then having both consumer expertise and a network of portfolio companies we could learn from.

Blogging 219

Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Amazon recently announced that it would be adding 100,000 temporary workers to help deal with its projected holiday crush, a 25% increase over its 80,000 seasonal hires in 2014. Focus On The Consumer. The Index of Consumer Sentiment found in mid-October that “personal financial expectations rose to their highest level since 2007.”

Commerce 40

Commerce Sales Pricing Study 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. It’s fun social entertainment that without words helps me feel connected to people that I’m close to or whom I want to follow. It’s graphical, beautiful, simple to consume and has a wonderful layout.

Web 334

Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334