InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

Instead of foisting antiquated conversion funnels on mobile users, advertisers should offer consumers what they want - the opportunity to transact (or learn more) with a single click. Fortunately for consumers, not all mobile advertisers are clueless. Note: I am an Invoca investor via Rincon Venture Partners ).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2011

Irvine-based Local.com , which operates a network of local search sites, said today that it has acquired iTwango LLC , a developer of a technology platform for the group buying and daily deals space. According to Local.com, the move puts it into the group buying space, where it intends to launch new products towards the middle of 2011.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

State of Content is an unrivaled opportunity to connect and collaborate with today’s leading influencers, executives, and entrepreneurs in the new establishment of advertising, marketing & technology. TALK NYC Heads to SOHO House, Bringing Madison Avenue to West Hollywood on June 13, 2012.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

2) Advertising in the Facebook ecosystem. Facebook now accounts for a staggering 25% of all display impressions (up from 9% last year), and Facebook and its advertisers are finally beginning to understand how to leverage the platform's unique capabilities. 3) Cloud computing offerings as an enabler to lean startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2013

Guy Kawasaki Talks About “Artisanal” Publishing, also covering a wide range of topics from using social media to build a Guy-like platform, the mega battle between Facebook and Google+, Apple versus Android religious issues, and the dumbest things you can do with social media. Shani Higgins took over as CEO at Technorati in 2011.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Jovian's platform allows us to process and analyze campaigns in-flight, and also provide in-flight course corrections for marketers.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” from Carnegie Mellon University. The old media companies were resistant to change.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

So imagine you are a Radio Station- now for the first time you can create and sustain a community conversation on your website – which will increase your traffic on your website and provide a very innovative platform for your users. Location based advertising and marketing is something that’s been attempted but not yet perfected.

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2015

crackdown on illegal online gambling and online poker back in 2011. What we found at Youbet, after tens of millions of dollars of promotion and advertising, is that less than 1.15 In 2011, we watched as there was a whole world of online, illegal gambling being shut down. percent of people will play horse races directly.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. Our growth has been steady from month-to-month, and has just started to ramp up heavily in 2011.

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MARCH 12, 2013

He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television. In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller. He walked me through both the logic and the math.

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MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. It means that the investors can focus on the issues that one faces at that particular stage.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. Article 2 posed the question of “Where is advertising going in this new digital age?” ” THE SALES PLATFORM.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Social analytics and personalization platform GraphDive has closed $2 million in its first ever equity round from Crosslink Capital, Correlation Ventures, Plug & Play Tech Center, Start Capital and angel investors Pejman Nozad, Ullas Naik and Scott Banister. $2 2 million equity round.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

GroupPrice was recently named in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Companies for 2011. Krishna drives the advertising and marketing strategy at Mobclix, the only real-time bidding mobile ad exchange, enabling over 35 ad networks to reach targeted inventory across over 15,000 mobile apps.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

YouTube is available on 350 million devices and more than a million advertisers using Google ad platforms, the majority of which are small businessesTraffic from mobile devices tripled in 2011. billion, or 90% of consolidated revenues, a 21% increase over second quarter 2011 revenues of $9.03 billion From Ads.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site. What is Tradesparq? Michael Kleist: We started in 2010.

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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. Event Details. to 10:30 p.m.

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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. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. It had strong platform usage.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In order to bring our product to market, rather than to try go into direct selling ourselves, or trying to create a market by advertising--which we didn't have the money to do--we started cold calling Novell resellers. Businesses in 2009, 2010, and 2011, when they wanted to start a business, they didn't buy a Novell or use Exchange.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Above is an interview we did with Patrick at BlogWorld Expo New York 2011. How much of FOD advertising is focused on the internet rather then more traditional channels? Funny Or Die doesn’t do any advertising. Building the Funny Or Die brand and social media platforms to where they are today.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. Advertise on VentureBeat. Publisher Platform (P3). Additionally, invention disclosures in Southern California totaled 925 compared to the 592 disclosed in NorCal, according to the UC Technology Transfer Annual Report. MYTH 5: The SoCal crowd is better looking. We came to play.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Then we rescued it from nothing around the end of 2011. Another goal is to continue to drive awareness of our platform. What advice would you give to employers to advertise their company to job seekers? We clearly went through some difficult transitions in the company. The company almost died. So a year and a half or so.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. They looked unstoppable.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. But one common theme I’m hearing from there in 2011 is that it’s impossible to recruit. Recruiting & retention will be different outside the Valley.

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JUNE 6, 2012

In the “long tail” you can become enormously valuable if you’re a platform. In 2011 YouTube had 1 trillion views, which is the equivalent of every human watching 140 videos. And this time the winners won’t just be the platforms – I see great opportunities for torso content producers.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. 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. August 2011. These companies advertise. On your tech platforms. We did not. Fundings boomed. Summary version?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role.

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