socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

MarketShare recently launched a rebranding effort for the company, and is in the midst of a major hiring and expansion phase. Wes Nichols: MarketShare is an analytics company. Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Yammer 104

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The equity round will help it built more compelling technology to analyze social data to provide deep user analytics, actionable insights and personalized offers for its clients. Co-founded in 2011 by Sina Sohangir and Shahram Seyedin-Noor, GraphDive raised over $1 million in initial funding.

Equity 65

Equity Social Media Google Tool 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Yammer Case Study Study 102

Tech.Co

JULY 31, 2017

While back in 2011, a cell phone user received or made 12 phone calls a day on average, the number has dropped to just 6 calls in 2015. With all sorts of text/video messaging apps, email and social media as the primary mean of communication, the phone has become both a public and a business nuance. Manage Company Culture.

Snapchat 65

Snapchat Product Email Social Media 65

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. You mention the big companies, like FTD, 1-800 Flowers, etc.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

Tony is currently Founder/CEO for Eventify, an LA-based startup creating a venue marketplace, and Visible Factors, an SEO consulting company. and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition.

SEO 85

SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Daniel Scalisi: MobileCause is actually a company we acquired, and reorganized in January. What kinds of customers are using your service? We've gotten over 80 paying customers in our five months we've been deployed. I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have started five companies. What's your startup all about?

Mobile 162

Mobile Web Startup Custom 162

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

The reasons companies elect to sell exclusively offline differ, but they often center on managing channel conflict with their retail partners. Founded in 2011, Z Supply, LLC has created five women’s fashion brands with a sixth brand and extension into Men’s, launching Spring 2017.

Sites 100

Sites Sales Santa Barbara Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Part accelerator, part lab, and part café, Hub LA is a diverse community working for social good. Social Media: Snapchat. Incubator: Amplify LA.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. 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.

Content 386

Content Google Media Hulu 386

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. The benefits “digital interactions” have and continue to offer coupon companies are vast. Groupon specifically has targeted this demographic, lending digital couponing a social reputation.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." But I don’t think so.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2011

As Mark states below “Forums are the original social media&# , people sharing information across the web on all sorts of different topics. Forums are the original social media, and they’ve been steadily growing with the scale of the internet since it came into being. Every company shifts focus.

Startup 58

Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Framework 58

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I connected with Andrea Gouw , the founder of ShopperSeeks.com , on Twitter (thank you social media), when reaching out for women CEOs and founders around the country. Kyle: Andrea, tell me a little about yourself: Andrea: Right out of College I worked as an assistant buyer for May company in Boston. That was half-true.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Media Sites 99

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

NOT because the founder of the company has an established credibility working for both Facebook and MINT when those companies were in infancy. And NOT even because they give until death refunds if a customer is ever dissatisfied with a purchase. He says he cares most about “focusing on customers for life”. I resisted.

Metrics 87

Metrics Email Startup Technical Review 87

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2011

These applications have quickly become a part of our daily lives from booking airfare, to social media, to streaming content, etc. QR codes have brought a lot to the table in the form of our next generation of digital media and advertising. The LA based company ShareSquare offers users all this and more.

Advertising 87

Advertising Content Template Technology 87

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

Everyone has something to say that goes beyond 140 characters or a single media post. Today, if you want to create a digital-rich experience for your friends, fans or customers, you either need a web developer and designer to do it or hours if not days of time to develop something compelling enough to engage your audience.

Startup 97

Startup Web Content Media 97

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. How safe are money transfers or online purchases on social networks?

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. While running my family wine business , I used Twitter’s search for market research and to find new customers. Sometime in 2011, I started to notice that the content I was putting out on Twitter was not getting the attention that it used to.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

As lawyers in the social media and Internet law space, this duo brings to the table practical experience counseling clients in real time and explaining breaking legal news in plain English. Tech Law Tip of the Week: explanation of a frequently-asked IP law question for tech companies.

IP 81

IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In a 2011 CDC report , nearly 67% of U.S Compound that by the exponential growth of smart devices from 2011-2013 , we’re looking at a need for rapid development in the next few years. And that’s just what companies like Sprint Velocity and Airbiquity are aiming to do. That much is obvious.

Mobile 94

Mobile Google Startup Technology 94

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 2.0:

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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. Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44