Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Even though Lyft nor Sidecar presented at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 they need to be mentioned as they were a huge time saver both getting from after party to after party and also to get to the airport. Planana handles getting sponsorship dollars for your event so you can focus on marketing it.

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Startup Conference Google Web 77

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Big news in the social gaming sphere as major interactive gaming player Kabam announces the launch of The Godfather: Five Families out of beta and into commercial exclusively with Google+ Games. This is the first major exclusive game launch Kabam or any other major gaming company on Google+ and not on Facebook.

Google 64

Google Paramount Web 2.0 News 64

socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

The company said its Ballista intelligent control platform has been providing its software to the defense, intelligence, and homeland security market. The company''s announcement comes on the same day that news of another, unmanned drone technology firm here in the area--Airware--announced a funding round from Google and Andreessen Horowitz.

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Software Southern California Santa Monica News 187

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

It is YouTube marketing at its best. 01% conversion rate again to the people who clicked over to the website from the YouTube video, that’s 185 new customers, 185 people who would have never thought to google search for a tampon service, who will now be signing up to spend the 15 bucks a month to get tampons delivered to their door.

Dollar Shave Club 101

Dollar Shave Club Custom Customer Marketing 101

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

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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Platform Help Custom Customer 82

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The Google Venture, Founder Collective and 500 Startups backed company is based in Palo Alto, CA. Gyft has tapped into the $100 billion dollar gift card market by enabling shoppers to manage all of their gift cards from one mobile device. Get your headphones ready, they launch Halloween 2012. We will see what the future holds.

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Press Email Tips Conference 103

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

They cite Quara, Google, Twitter & Facebook as obvious examples. Besides, why call when you can use Google, or send a Twitter message?” Google doesn’t seem to ever take calls from ME when I have a complaint! Google, Facebook & Twitter all provide free services to end users and we eat them up.

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Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2012

The company--one of the premium content partners for Google-YouTube's new original content efforts--said that, last year, it broadcast over 500 high school football games via its YouTube channel , and expects to grow that to over 4,000 hours of content for the 2012-2013 season. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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Yahoo Content Google Marketing 124

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We own the celebrity birthday niche--we''re first in Google for searching for celebrity birthdays on every day of the year. Evan Britton: I''m an Internet market guru. I love the web and love Internet marketing. So, at the beginning of 2012, we picked a website that we owned, to make it awesome.

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Google Sites Startup Web 236

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

By the end of 2012, Rob had done a really great job of identifying the opportunity, and being a visionary on how social, local, and mobile would change how consumers engaged with brands. Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. How did you get involved with MomentFeed?

Google 127

Google Paid Search Mobile Activity 127

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

It is open also in the same way that Google was open in its early days. Google started as a place where you came to be taken via links to other people’s websites. I know many of you don’t remember the context, but that was heresy when Google started. Google was duuumb. That’s the Google lesson.

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Social Media Google Media Startup 274

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The Model S, primarily assembled at Tesla’s main plant in Fremont, California, wowed pundits and critics so much that it won 2012 Car Of The Year awards from Motor Trend, Automobile Magazine, Yahoo Motors, and more. Moto-X by Motorola: Motorola has been a mainstay in the mobile device market since the days of early flip phones.

Technology 104

Technology Google Mobile Outsource Development 104

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. There is nobody to blame for this abandonment of common sense – it is simply the market being the market and we’re doomed to repeat history. It’s just a market.

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Venture Capital Pricing Platform Marketing 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

The funding environment for tech startups is an ever shifting ground as we go through predictable shifts that go hand-in-hand with the slowing of the overall market. With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Seed Funding 150

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

We have our own A/B testing platform, and my team is responsible for that solution for desktop and native apps, not only for Walmart.com, but also online groceries and the market. started in August of 2012. Things started to slow down at that office, but around the 2012 time frame, Walmart was doubling down on their ecommerce platform.

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San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

We have our own A/B testing platform, and my team is responsible for that solution for desktop and native apps, not only for Walmart.com, but also online groceries and the market. started in August of 2012. Things started to slow down at that office, but around the 2012 time frame, Walmart was doubling down on their ecommerce platform.

San Diego 100

San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: It was officially May 9 of 2012, when David and I and others within YP and AT&T decided that given where we were with AT&T, their core focus on wireless, we should figure out how to take the business out of AT&T, so that we would not be constrained on our investments, and we could go after markets in a more strategic way.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. The process was nearly flawless. If you look at Yelp''s U.S.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

We''re doing what Reddit does for content, and Google does for search. The company is actually relatively new to the LA market. When I got involved with Slickdeals, I decided to tap into the LA market, and tap into my network of talented folks, who could really transform and accelerate the deal business.

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Content Yahoo Los Angeles Sites 212

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). Obviously I agree. So where are we now?

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Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 284

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. For only $5 a month, subscribers can access brand new Nollywood movies (made in 2012), streamed in HD.

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Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. My cofounder and I came up with this concept, and had been talking for awhole about how fragmented the overall market is for online ordering. We started our services in August of 2012. How do restaurants pay for this?

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Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Social Media Outsource Development 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2013

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Make no mistake, even with these caveats, 2012 has been a banner year for startup funding, and the cost of entry has never been lower. Be there, even if you have to move.

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Startup Invest Venture Capital Seed Funding 99

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Pablo joins TechZulu and talks about Proven, job markets, and the future of mobile. The current iteration of what we are doing now has been around since 2012. One of them is the idea that the fluidity of the job market where people used to have just one job. Job Markets, & The Future of Mobile appeared first on TechZulu.

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Mobile Marketing Writing Startup 86

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

Yet I am amazed to see US Census Bureau data from 2012 that at least 50%, maybe up to 75%, of small businesses still have no presence at all. I still remember my disappointment the first time I published my website, did an immediate Google search on the name, and it said my company didn’t exist. Viral marketing needs a website.

Web 99

Web Startup Sites Design 99

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages. They were putting online advertisements through Google Ads to solicit people to rent equipment, who could not figure it out on their own. Really, we're the sales and marketing arm of those companies.

Startup 174

Startup Metrics Custom Customer 174

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Use Google or one of the many other search engines to search for existing solutions to this problem. Another series of searches on Google Patents and the US Patent Office site and Free Patents Online is in order at this point. Large and growing market. Real customer pain and money. Motivated and qualified team is ready.

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Ideas Patents Startup Google 97

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2012

In recent months the mobile market has begun to see a shift in smart phone purchase as Nokia came back into the space with the Lumia series. Which also meant a new app market for developers to place around in and since both companies stepped up their game above critics expectations, developers began to take notice. Now back to Siri.

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Mobile Conference Google Marketing 64

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We caught on with the right product, at the right time.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2013

CFI is looking to enlist Indian-origin tech professionals, some who are software engineers from Microsoft, Google, eBay, VISA and Facebook among others to join other volunteers and organizations to give back to their community. and international markets, something great will happen. Think Local, Hack Global. and sold it to VISA Inc.

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Clearstone Organization Education Google 79

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). Obviously I agree. So where are we now?

Invest 152

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 152

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 The Past (1985-2002). It was mostly timing.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. which is still a premier market for the world.

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. Los Angeles Tech Market Analysis' Distribution costs have, too.

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Media CTO Coach CTO Hire Los Angeles 320