Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. They also identify clearly the five key social media mistakes that I often see, along the following lines: Diving in without a strategic plan. Not having a social media policy.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 16, 2011

Friday, April 22, 2011 -- The Rise of Inbound Marketing: Adapting Marketing to Changing Customer Behaviors and Demands. Online marketing and social media have dramatically changed the marketing practice. Marketing is still about knowing your audience.  Marketing is still about knowing your audience. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 -- Organic Marketing for Startups. Learn about the methods for creating and marketing yourself, your business and your content on the web in ways that cost only elbow grease and return traffic and customers in droves. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

spends hundreds of millions of dollars on a media property, runs it for about seven years, and then decides to unload that same property for a fraction of the price it paid to a Southern California technology--not media--company. How about IGN ? Does this sound familiar? Well, could be. in a $580M deal.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

No longer content with recipes and digital address books, we were now connected to the world with endless amounts of information. 2011 and Wherecamp 2011 just happened this past week. She gave us a great presentation about context. DJ Patil , one of the several well credentialed co-founders of Color , spoke about Color.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent. paidContent said ContentNext employes 16, with paidContent now bringing in 639,000 uniques as of October 2011, with more than 1.3

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. These companies have all experienced growth and we're expecting substantial value creation in 2011. Stay tuned. Great things will emerge there.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Streaming media. Social media. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

No longer content with recipes and digital address books, we were now connected to the world with endless amounts of information. 2011 and Wherecamp 2011 just happened this past week. She gave us a great presentation about context. DJ Patil , one of the several well credentialed co-founders of Color , spoke about Color.

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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.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

We then take that information and find trends and metadata, and all that content and sharing, and use it to drive e-commerce, and to design and manufacture apparel products. Allison Beal: I've been in fashion design and manufacturing for about nine years. What's your background and how did you get into this?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

Other than the occasional NBA game, he consumes his video content via our iPad and Xbox. Mark Suster , fellow venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, has written extensively about YouTube’s evolution from dogs-on-skateboards to its current status as an entertainment medium rivaling cable television networks. He is not alone.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. HauteLook was acquired for $270M in 2011 by Nordstrom.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

version notice boards are disrupting publishing and news content aggregation in Africa, influencing even how media houses on the continent relay news. Johan Nel, CEO and founder of Umuntu Media says,” Mimiboards will help people on the continent record and handle issues live as they emerge. Mimiboard, virtual, 3.0

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2012

One thing Internet technologies have brought us over time is the increasing ability to create customizable or personalized content for ourselves. Then we took a giant leap with social media integration. We could now not only see content we were aware of but we could discover new content via our friends and their friends.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

It’s great to create rich content but unless its easy to create the barriers of entry are high and the masses are not creating it. Webdoc aims to make it dead simple to allow those with/without technical knowledge to create rich engaging content that everyone can enjoy. Think Minority Report meets the web. How big is your team?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

He is a marketing professional with over 8 years of extensive online and social media marketing experience. Above is an interview we did with Patrick at BlogWorld Expo New York 2011. People become aware of Funny Or Die through our content. You have to be passionate about marketing and Funny Or Die.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? The panelists will share their experiences and insights about these programs and investors and offer a wide-range of information to the attendees before ending with a Q & A. When: Thursday, November 10, 2011 – 7-9pm.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” The old media companies were resistant to change. Matching ads to content is what they do. Millions, billions, trillions? from Carnegie Mellon University. Much bigger.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2012

One thing Internet technologies have brought us over time is the increasing ability to create customizable or personalized content for ourselves. Then we took a giant leap with social media integration. We could now not only see content we were aware of but we could discover new content via our friends and their friends.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

And this in a nutshell, is what our lives as media consumers has turned into: a constant stream of impatience and auto-pilot interactions with ads. Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. Use digital media to change the way we consume media and shop.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? The panelists will share their experiences and insights about these programs and investors and offer a wide-range of information to the attendees before ending with a Q & A. When: Thursday, November 10, 2011 – 7-9pm.

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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. Andrea: That it’s all about me.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

However, for us, it''s more about empowering the local florist. The florist business center we launched recently empowers florists, with tools to run email marketing campaigns, reach out through social media, and even gives them a point of sale system and website builder. Farbod Shoraka: We started out in the summer of 2011.

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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. In our instantaneous world we want content and experiences now. Remember that promotional advertisement handed to you about the big concert coming next month? QR codes and Augmented Reality.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2011

Conducted this fall, the 2011 Consumer Payment Poll revealed that consumers have dramatic and growing concerns about the safety and privacy of using credit or debit cards for online transactions. About the survey) Commissioned by PaymentOne, poll results were published by Javelin Strategy & Research surveyed over 2,000 U.S

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Iroko Patners had , a souring relationship with YouTube, Google Ads Words, Amazon Web Services even though the movie streaming firm had about eight million YouTube streams a month, with a $1 million revenue run-rate in 2011. We currently have around 35,000 songs online by about 200 African artists. Why Africa?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Surprisingly, I was thinking the same thing today about user-generated content, which basically check-in's are too.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Loudie allows you to communicate about your favorite artists and concerts on your phone regardless of your location. When: Thursday, July 14th, 2011 – 6:00 p.m. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We did some informal research toward the end of 2011 when the “pinning” phenomenon emerged because we found it very interesting. The feedback primarily fell into three categories: better ways to discover new content, better organization tools and the option to have private collections. What is your driving force, energy?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

What You Know: A lengthy stream of media and press that have the tech world scratching their heads in confusion and/or denouncing them as the rap beef rudos of Silicon Valley. Sometimes I feel like the crazy blind man on the corner, ranting about my prophecy – big cup in my hand, banging it with a spoon. Genius, in Your Hands.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2011

After about 8 months I got laid off from that job and was sitting at home thinking “ What am I going to do next?” What the GFQ network is providing is an entertainment outlet for great content. We have about 16 people that work on the network. Cross-promotion is the key to growing your content and viewership.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For how to market your blog in order to get site visitors I suggest checking out the Marketing Show and if you can attend the next Pub Con it is one the best conferences to learn about getting web traffic. One of the hardest things about being a blogger is drawing that line between being a business owner and writing for passion.

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