Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

New and old interactive companies alike have been wrangling their online communities for panelpicker votes since mid-August when voting commenced for a coveted shot to win a chance to present their vision to a guaranteed crowd of A-List digital and tech influencers that will gather together in Austin, TX the week of March 8, 2013.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

According to the author, 60% of Facebook’s revenue comes from mobile ads, double that of the prior year. As Facebook''s mobile ad revenue attests, marketers are stepping up their "phone based" spending. There’s a fundamental difference between the behavior of someone utilizing a mobile device and someone sitting at a desktop computer.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2013

TechZulu had the pleasure again this year to help bring all the New Media Expo (NMX) 2013 Keynotes sessions live. Under her leadership, Technorati Media has become a profitable integrated online media company with an advertising network, social rich media technology platform, and the internet’s largest blog directory.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

What that means, is for companies that have a physical presence in the real world, stores and the like, interaction with consumers today on mobile is now primarily through things that represent their stores, rather than directly with their brands. Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013? Following that, I think mobile advertisement technologies. I think it's going to be the next great revolution in advertising. It is the number one reason why entrepreneurs have to pivot on their ideas and why small businesses fail quickly.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 26, 2013

From gaming, to advertising, to branding and marketing, there’s no online business plan that Facebook can’t be used for at this point. Business Entertainment Marketing 2013 ads Advertising Brands entrepreneur Fab Facebook Mobile device networking personal connections ROI Social Media Social network' Pulse on the People.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

40% of all of YouTube is viewed on mobile devices and of high-quality content I believe it is between 60-70% based on my insider data. Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers. This is 14% of world population and 33% of all people online. You must invest in technology. post-script.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

They can choose to go to a dinner that is advertised, and if they've previously expressed interest in a person, we let them know if that person is going. At Nokia, I was building relationships with consumer front ends, and prior to that, I worked with big mobile carriers. How did you get from working on mobile to online dating?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. It’s about defining your data across the Web and now mobile.”. It’s been about data.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Integrated car-to-mobile communication that allows you to drive and plan your day without touching your phone once. All photos are taken from the 2013 LA Auto Show. Like mobile devices, it’s not just about talking (or traveling) anymore. With automotive, advertising has always been a huge vertical (beverages, food, etc.).

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Advertising Startup Marketing Mobile 97

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

And with mobile you even have the ability to message your users when new content is released which leads to much higher consumptions rates. And ironically many consumer mobile apps are more of hits-driven businesses than video is today. If you can get customers to download your mobile apps you have the right to push videos to them.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

What would be interesting, is when the non-endemic sponsors and brands start to get into advertising and positioning in e-sports, such as the Toyotas, the Hyundais, the Allstates and State Farms, the McDonalds. Mobcrush is another we've announced, which is focused essentially on mobile streaming, and they are here in Santa Monica.

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Riot Games Southern California Invest Mobile 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Radical transparency is the goal and on May 14 th , 2013 the filmmakers will post the entire feature-length film online in HD ( for free ), in addition to releasing it on DVD/Blu-ray, on TV, and in theaters simultaneously. Above all, we love to tell stories.”

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

More than half of the dollars invested this year will have gone into $100 million plus mega rounds and these investments alone will dwarf all of the capital that was invested in all of 2013. This is really just the beginning of the extraordinary things that are happening across the technology landscape.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. Offer tools to allow content producers to build their own websites & mobile apps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

If your product is free, with advertising revenue from click-throughs, you need a sign-up rate and page-view rate that approaches one million page views per month. I like to see at least 10,000 active users, or a user base, page-views, or mobile downloads that double every three months. Free and freemium products need a solid base.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. Distribution costs have, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

If you want to know more about them and why they grew so rapidly I’ve written about them here ( online / offline mobile ad integration ) & here ( the most obvious mobile phone ad unit ). We have also built out an amazing management team. And here’s the thing.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Date : Thursday, October 24, 2013. It generates revenues through Subscription, Virtual Currency and Advertising. Wilson joined Paltalk from Zynga/OMGPOP where he was Chief Revenue Officer of the New York City based developer/publisher social mobile games company, which was sold to Zynga in 2012 for $210 Million.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Yelp currently is the go-to source for reviews for the simple fact that they have the most reviews; this puts Yelp in a position to use questionable and aggressive sales-tactics when selling overpriced advertisement packages to small business owners. What’s your business model? Any funding raised? Expansion plans? How many users so far?

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Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes. Some quick numbers: In 2013, $100M was invested into Bitcoin-related ventures.

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Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

As we know, long gone are the days of experiencing SXSW Interactive with just 9,000 other tech entrepreneurs and business brights – with 30,000 registrants in 2013 and the final numbers for 2014 still in the works. James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements.

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