Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Isn’t it frustrating to think you understand something new in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Don’t Buy It ,” which asserts that “earned” social engagement drives far better business results than paid social exposure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? United Airlines is still recovering from that debacle. You need to be there.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2018

Los Angeles-based Fullscreen announced this morning that it has acquired Reelio , the developer of an influencer marketing platform focused on the millennial and Gen Z market, helping brands, advertisers, and agencies identify social media influencers. Reelio was founded in 2012, and had been baed in New York.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Then there is the Internet, delivered through every media, including your smart phone, where the volume of data spewing out is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes. According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012.

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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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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

ScoreStream, a five-year-old startup that created a social media platform for crowd-sourcing local sports scores, has raised $3.7 million since it was founded in 2012. CEO Derrick Oien said Friday that ScoreStream recently completed a Verizon R/GA digital “Media Tech.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

As we’re out we all like to indulge in our social media accounts with sharing updates, media, and check-ins. Is there a potential for a greater evening experience to be achieved based on our social actions? But while we’re doing all that, what are the nightlife venues we’re at doing on their side?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2012

DreamSwapp is an Android-based mobile application to help users record their dreams and share dreams with friends using social media. Our team was founded in May 2012 and we released our app on October 8 th , Chicago, IL. It gives the users the options to use as a dream journal or to have fun as a media tool. Swapp page.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

During last year’s (2012) CES we had the opportunity to speak with SocialNightlife has they were in private Beta. The platform was create to help nightlife professionals and venues gain insights about their most loyal customers and VIP members. Which has now officially been opened to the public.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Our headquarters are in Berlin, but we have platform users from all corners of the world. The result was a social platform especially built to serve the needs of Business-to-Business interaction and networking. Who are its founders?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 7, 2013

Social media aggregator RebelMouse recently raised $10.25 Berry added, “Our growth isn’t just financial: in the last 31 days, the platform has reached over 7 million unique visitors, according to Google Analytics. he was at the Huffington Post, as head of head of social marketing. ” Phenomenal Growth.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The founders say on average, teens in the United States spend upwards of two hours online every day and end up creating profiles on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Online Evaluation For Placement.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

The company was founded in 2012, developed by an all-Trojan team and has already made a big splash with this first-of-its-kind travel website. With the ability to import images from social media, HipTraveler creates a shareable, searchable itinerary. At the end of the day, the company aims to make things simple and intuitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Well-known crowd-funding platforms on the Internet, led by Kickstarter and Indiegogo , have worked for years to provide non-equity “funding” for many startups, as outlined in my previous article Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding. Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Well-known crowd-funding platforms on the Internet, led by Kickstarter and Indiegogo , have worked for years to provide non-equity “funding” for many startups, as outlined in my previous article Will the Real Crowd Funding Model Please Stand Up? Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Though thermostats might not be its major interest, social media is awash with claims that Google might tap Nest’s data to track how people use energy or simply track users’ homes for its Google Maps project. Then in May the same year, Google Ventures led Nest’s Series B round, and a Series C round in 2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 7, 2011

While it won’t be completely exclusive to Google+ (Facebook’s launch will be later in Q1 of 2012), the release is for Google+ gamers only. This is the first social game based on a major movie franchise on any social platform, period. The game is Kabam’s first licensed brand game.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012. Entelo has developed a "proactive recruiting" system which can be integrated with most of the leading applicant tracking platforms.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. We may keep the platform with the name ZunguZ and look for a client facing name for the application. TechZulu caught up Robert Sussman, Co-CEO of Zunguz , the Facebook payment app.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Launched in 2012 in Ontario Canada, eQuibbly wants to change the way we resolve disputes by being a quick, easy and free Online Dispute Resolution service across North America and eventually to a city near you. . eQuibbly’s platform allows one to post a dispute online asking the other party in the dispute to respond.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We started building LoveIt at the beginning of 2012. Our mission is to create a dynamic platform with powerful tools that provide the most engaging user experience possible. We need to cut through the clutter and establish ourselves as a platform that is here to stay because we have a lot to offer. When was it launched?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services. business entrepreneur investment IPO social media startup'

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Tech.Co

MAY 21, 2016

VNTANA was founded in 2012 and has since become a leader in social augmented reality. It is hologram system that combines Microsoft technology with VNTANA’s hardware and software platform, to create an advanced social augmented reality experience. “We Aside from the social media integration, the systems also collect data.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We are an online ordering platform, that helps restaurants enhance their web presence and the profitability of their brand. We thought we found a gap in the market where we could fit in, so we looked at a bunch of the services which were existing in the market, and we designed our own product offering, back in 2012. What is Clorder?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

Outside of refinement, there’s going to be a big push on cross-platform apps that aren’t built in the native languages for those platforms. Some of these are universal across all the platforms, whether iOS, Android or Windows Phone. Some of these conventions are particular to the platform you’re designing for.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve been an avid user of Plug.DJ’s music discovery site since early 2012, have discovered a ton of music there (which, by the way, I’m still listening to today) and originally covered their $1.25M in seed-round funding from Javelin Venture Partners. was founded in February 2012 by a team of passionate music fans.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

12,000 apps currently on the platform. Simon also shares his thoughts on building a strong fan base through social media and public relations. ” Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator – a platform for building network-connected mobile apps across native platforms. What’s the next mobile platform going to be?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community. If we see products are trending, we reach out and strike a deal with the vendor and make it for sale on our platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Yet the number of businesses looking to build on the Facebook platform seems to have increased.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

The topic of social media came up and one dial-in caller lamented the fact that all Silicon Valley was producing was silly social media companies. But as I pointed out on the show, look deeper at the impact of social media as a tool to organize crowds, hold public debates and spread information in a decentralized way.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Social media. Social networking. Social games. August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. October 20, 2012 1:57 PM. October 17, 2012 1:15 PM.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It is intended for product & tech people – mostly people who want to build cool stuff on the Twitter platform and it will showcase some really cool stuff that has been built on Twitter. talk about their Twitter integration and how you can use Twitter analytics to better monitor social media conversion on marketing campaigns.

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