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

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

We've done really well since then, were profitable in 2010, and have had some really great clients. It's based on Likes on a page, or installs of an application. What we really need, is more people to help sell, continue to improve our product, and manage campaigns. from a group of VCs and angels. What's the next step now?

Advertising 198

Advertising Startup Santa Monica Social Network 198

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

It all started in 2010 with Klout. John laid into a well-honed thesis on why the social web needed a “Page Rank” equivalent for people. I almost don’t want to tell you because I love the product and would love for them to stay under the radar screen from investors. I wasn’t a believer.

Cornerstone OnDemand 303

Cornerstone OnDemand Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup 303

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.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

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.

Dollar Shave Club 210

Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. We went from no suppliers to now over 160,000 suppliers, over two million products online. Michael Kleist: Oh gosh, that could be pages.

Southern California 170

Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

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.

Startup 104

Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

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?

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

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. MAKEITWORK, our Twitter handle is @makeitwork , our website is makeitwork.com and our facebook page is of course facebook.com/makeitwork. I spent a lot of money on Mark Germain (Mr. The Make It Work Mini Cooper Fleet.

Social Media 220

Social Media Media Blogging Social Network 220

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?

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

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.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

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.

Company 106

Company Companies Web Evite 106

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

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. Fadell and Rogers left Apple in 2010 to found Nest. We are simply going to get our products into the hands of people around the world – faster. ?What

Google 86

Google Acquisition Resource Social Media 86

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. The Exit Problem.

Venture Capital 347

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.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2010

When: Wednesday, Sept 22 nd , 2010 - 5:00 p.m. If you would like to be part of this amazing night and show your support you may go to the Signup page and do so or for special arrangements contact sponsor@startupdemo.com. to 11:00 p.m. Where: Wokcano, 1413 5 th Street, Santa Monica, CA. What: A Startup Demo event. Price: FREE.

Social Media 71

Social Media Media Startup Mixergy 71

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.

Content 165

Content Startup Web Technical Review 165

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

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. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

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.

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

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.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Not limited to the technology industry, our members invest in exciting companies in a wide range of industries including biotech, consumer products, Internet, IT, life sciences, media, software and environmental, among others. Event Details: When: Wednesday, Sept 22nd, 2010 - 5:00 p.m. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Software Review Santa Monica Tech Coast Angels 58

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.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

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.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

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

Blogging 219

Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is my sole objective for January of 2010. We also want you to use and understand this valuable product so that you may attract and retain customers. However, we removed it from the complaint details page of our website. “Removed it from the complaint details page of our website.&# << REALLY?

Santa Barbara 265

Santa Barbara Technical Advisors Email Technical Review 265

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. Keep your write-ups to a single page. Product Name. State the anticipated name of your product/service. You might want to read: Lousy Product Names. Give reasons.

Startup 243

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Statistics 243

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.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

But many of these aren’t integrated with the way that their customers want to communicate with them in 2010. But DO NOT crocodile into your solution page. They are seldom productive. You have target customers, you have competitors and you have a product to sell. So you’ve identified a problem.

Sales 314

Sales Startup Venture Capital Customer 314

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Paul Breummer, Search Engine Land. The benefits “digital interactions” have and continue to offer coupon companies are vast.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A few sponsorship spots still available for early 2010 events: TechZulu still has a few slots open for our early 2010 events for our large diverse audience — social media users, venture capitalist, PR people, developers, bloggers, Hollywood entertainment and many more. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google.

Stickam 60

Stickam Content Draper Web 60

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? Then, we got written up by Time Magazine as one of the Top 50 sites of 2010. What do you feel about UI/UX?

Startup 190

Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. As we know, developers always give their product a code name. What is Zunguz?

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Event Details: When: Wednesday, Sept 22nd, 2010 - 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

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.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

You can visit the official event page here. StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. This panel will explore the strategies and results around a very successful and fully integrated online campaign from Avery Office Products. What If I can not attend an event?

Social Media 65

Social Media Media Tech Coast Angels Orange County 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

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. You may want office space outside of your home, but you may not need it to start. Print advertising is expensive, but social media is free.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92