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. Now the company is launching a true crime podcast, to tap into another potentially high-growth market, on the iHeartMedia and Apple platforms.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Lyfe Mobile is a new Southern California startup that combines augmented reality (AR) with traditional ad networks and real-time bidding (RTB) to offer advertisers and brands a unique opportunity to engage customers in an exciting new way. Lyfe Mobile offers a robust ad network that advertisers can build out their entire mobile campaign on.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Kai Stubble: SupperKing is basically the first platform that enables a peer-to-peer, in-home dining experience. They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Kai Stubbe: SupperKing is basically the first platform that enables a peer-to-peer, in-home dining experience. They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 2, 2010

Monday, March 8, 2010 -- digiday:MOBILE LA. Is Mobile The Next Critical Mass Medium? Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform at digiday:MOBILE in Los Angeles. DIGIDAY gives media leaders a chance to converge and discuss high level strategies and the future of Mobile Media and Marketing.

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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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SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

Closely Aligned Functional Needs The most common reason that a language and platform is chosen is because there's an existing set of (often open source) functionality that you can tap into that aligns closely with your functional needs. For example, you might choose Sencha if you are building apps that run natively on several platforms (e.g.,

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APRIL 17, 2010

They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s analytics comprehensively monitors customer behavior over multiple networks, including location-based mobile networks. We’re excited to work with them.

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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. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. OTHER DEALS: 1. Employees: 20.

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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. In 2010, we sold the game assets and name PlayScreen, which we had acquired, and formed a new company with some solid financial and technology guys.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2010

This year BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2010 is set to be their biggest yet. WOWee One is a rechargeable, pocket-sized, speaker+subwoofer that provides room-filling sound and deep bass on the go for the iPod™, iPad™, Nintendo DS™, PSP™, mp3 players, mobile phones, computers, or any other device using a standard 3.5mm headphone jack.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

TechZulu will be streaming Digiday : Mobile live from 8:00am - 5:00pm PST Monday 3/8. Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform. 9:00am: Keynote Presentation: Mobile Advertising: The Hype, The Hope, and The Financial Reality. Presenter: Scott A. Presenter: Scott A.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

-Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Free experience is web and mobile app-based, has ads, limited skipping, and limited listening time (40 hours/month).

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

As we know the mobile industry is accelorating at high speeds with no chances of slowing down anytime soon. What inspired you to co-found Rocksauce Studios and get involved in the mobile space? Initially, my desire to go into the mobile space came from my love for design and my weariness with web or print related art.

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Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

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AUGUST 9, 2011

In particular part three talked about what happened if we saw a double dip in 2010-11 or a “lost decade.&#. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. On your tech platforms. I’m long Mobile. We did not.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. then bought GeoCities for $3.6

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MAY 15, 2010

SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Ad.ly – (disclosure: I led the funding on Ad.ly) Provides an in-stream advertising platform for any content creator (individual or organization) with an online social presence. OTHER DEALS. Primarily targets SMBs.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

The state-of-the-art today when it comes to the social computing environments that surround us now — in our browsers, mobile devices, and elsewhere — underscore how much more we have left to do to make these new modes of digital conversation and discourse become mature, efficient, safe, and truly useful.

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Lesson learned (to me at least) – let people get stinking rich off your platform and tax ‘em later. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2016

Today, larger mobile screens and touch interfaces are allowing people to do real work—not just e-mail—with the computer they have, wherever they are. Like a dream, or a nightmare, e-mail—which is still the go-to work productivity app—became 100 percent mobile, available anytime you wanted or needed, day or night.

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Product Screening Mobile Design 40

Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

As I prepare for my role as emcee in June for Convergence 2010 , I began to look back at how I got involved in radio. In addition, we use this platform during our other shows to provide our audience a way to view what Jeremy is displaying on his monitor while during a typical radio broadcast.

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Social Media Media Blogging Tips 220

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JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. 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.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

22, 2010. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. By allowing friends to collaborate during the planning process using a mobile app or SMS, Volly takes the burden of organizing casual gatherings off of one person.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars - Steve Blank , November 24, 2010 When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 27, 2010

He is also the Creator/Executive Producer of the popular viral video series French Maid TV and is currently the Vice President of Mobile Video at mDialog. Kevin Pollak the 2010 Streamy Award Winner for The Kevin Pollak Chat Show and Director of Vamped Out. Lawson Comedy Development and Production at Babelgum.com.

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Media Tips Advertising Mobile 68

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. 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.

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Southern California CTO Coach CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We hope to be on every single platform, over time. We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012. There are lots of apps out there for viewing video, what's different about Frequency?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. What made Twitter unique was the infrastructure and psychology that coincided with the rise of mobile text messaging. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. The ROI was solid.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. We’ll re-compare notes then.

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APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. Message of the week (from Fred Wilson) – “don’t fill cracks&# but innovate in new ways with the platform. TweetPhoto - Real-time photo sharing platform.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

That's the problem that the mobile app ntro is looking to solve. I stayed there for a couple of years after that, and in 2010, I started working on ntro. Why did you decide to start a company in the mobile area, rather than the video game business? Josh Resnick: At the end of the day, I just go to where my passions are.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

GraphEffect is a collaboration platform for social marketers which had only been available to large marketing partners including American Express, Toyota, Estee Lauder, Clorox, and Samsung. The Apps are integrated with collaboration features of the platform and enable one to do work together. Venture Funding.

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Social Network Marketing Networking Social Media 65

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. Community Sponsors.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And that’s why the online video space and YouTube ecosystem has taken one more leap toward its rightful place as next generation video platform.

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