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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Others claim Google might integrate its Android OS with robots, smartphones, and connected cars to help run homes or factories remotely. Speaking about the deal Larry Page, CEO of Google, said, “Nest’s founders, Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, have built a tremendous team that we are excited to welcome into the Google family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

According to a recent study done by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were 565,000 new businesses created per month in 2010 in the US alone, which is a 15-year high. Building your home base with personal and product traction. Engage your customers through blog comments, product reviews, and personal customer service.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

The company also made quite an impression with its viral video --which you have to watch to appreciate--of CEO Michael Dubin extolling the virtues of the company's products, and panning overpriced, expensive razor brands. That's the one we'll mass product. We talked with Dubin earlier about the company. It's David vs. Goliath.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products. It's simple as Google Analytics, and you just place it on your canvas page for your application. So who is using your software?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products. It's simple as Google Analytics, and you just place it on your canvas page for your application. So who is using your software?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. 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. I know the product intimately and it rocks. LendingClub. 24.5mm in Series C. Enter Xobni.

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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. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

22, 2010. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Neerg is an ecommerce store and community where consumers and merchants can "be and buy green" products and connect with like minded individuals. to 11:00 p.m.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2010

We are excited to be part of Social Media Week and helping awesome startups receive their much deserved exposure. When: Wednesday, Sept 22 nd , 2010 - 5:00 p.m. Helping Startups Get Exposure – Startup Demo offers a handful of startups an opportunity to showcase in an expo-style for FREE. to 11:00 p.m. Price: FREE.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We hired initially the Editor-in-Chief at LeapFrog, and then creating complex spidering and algorithmically generated ways to find the best games, web pages, and YouTube videos for kids. We also hired 200 teachers and parents in 25 states, so that we eventually created a library of 5 million web pages, video games, and YouTube videos.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Your BBB has formed a strategic alliance to help save you money in your everyday costs starting immediately. I have been asked by your Better Business Bureau to help accredited businesses like you keep more of the money you earn. This is my sole objective for January of 2010. Rick Copelan | President & CEO. Now it gets good!

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? Especially with DVD sales declining, we offer an interesting way to help studios.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Remember the whole controversy over Facebook’s Beacon product where a guy bought an engagement ring for his wife and it was published to a stream and ruined the surprise ? So my gut says this will be a youth-oriented product. 11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. Google had huge destination traffic.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

In a 2010 TechCrunch article , Ron Conway discusses the success and failure rates of the ~ 500 companies he had invested in during the prior 12-years. Looking for small ventures will help you open your eyes to the myriad of opportunities that surround you. The form at the end of this entry may help you organize your thoughts.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages. 10) Kevin, why does the world need FindTheBest (FTB)? . “We

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

We are always looking for ways to help improve the experience here at TechZulu. Discover - Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. Giving you the ability to chat in realtime with all your friends around the web right from TechZulu. ( Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Having no money can help you plan. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free. If you will be making a product to sell, be sure the cost of materials is minimal and beyond that it costs only your labor. People can help you if you help them. Dick's Sporting Goods was started with $300.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). With this method you occasionally might block searching Microsoft employees who aren’t aware of their company’s spammy activities, so make sure you serve them a friendly GFY page that explains the issue.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Click here to watch live on Wednesday Sept. 22 @ 5:30pm PT. We have a special treat for you.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

You can visit the official event page here. TechZulu is always here to help. We are TechZulu after all, so you know we could not do this post without some helpful event recommendations for startups and entrepreneurs. StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services.

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Social Media Media Tech Coast Angels Orange County 65

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. We want to help them, and will. Thank you @eminutes. . Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2010

Held from July 30, 2010 to August 5, 2010 at Laemmie Sunset 5, attendees had the opportunity to view independent television series and web series, panel discussions from industry experts, and mixers galore for the duration of the event. They help finance and sell projects. ITVFest Panel's. The Studio System.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. If you look at Google in the way they operate, you have two products, one is called AdWords, one is called AdSense, okay? Recent Comments | 3 Total February 26, 2010 at 6:37pm by bill right L.A.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Even though their business model was tweaked a little while ago to give customers additional leniency, the business is still expecting to break $100 million in revenue this year, up from $25 million in 2010. His second venture was Tesla Motors, creating the first production electric car of the modern era. Comment help.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. then bought GeoCities for $3.6

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Simply click on the title of the panel you like and you will be taken to their SXSWi panel picker page. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► October (1) New Video!

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures - Gabriel Weinberg , July 25, 2010 I was once a wannabe entrepreneur.

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