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. Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff. The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Jim should know, since he is the president Ignite Social Media , of one of the best known social media marketing agencies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Los Angeles-based The Mobile Majority , which develops a mobile ad platform that helps companies create, serve, track, analyze, target and analyze advertising, says it has just hit a $50M run rate, as of November 2014. READ MORE>>. technology advertising hiring jobs growth majority mobile themobilemajority'

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

For example, mobile now has become the formidable new communication channel, posting a year-over-year growth rate of 47 percent in 2014, according to WBR Digital Research. That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets. Assume that customers are all like you.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

That’s a reason why some are quick to portend “a new bubble” but this post sets out to show that would be a misunderstanding of the market and in fact by historic levels this may be amongst the best times to invest in seed and early-stage funds. More on that later. If you look even more closely you’ll see just how skewed the data really is.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2014

But last August 28, 2014 seemed like a dawning of a new era in the Twitter world as Ian Chan, Twitter’s engineer, announces that the tool is available for just about anyone who wants to utilize it. But what does this mean for marketers? Will it be able to help brands market themselves better in social media? Let’s take a look.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

Attention Marketers - The Medium Has Changed, So Should The Message. As Facebook''s mobile ad revenue attests, marketers are stepping up their "phone based" spending. Unfortunately, many of these professionals are doing so with a desktop mindset more akin to 2004 than 2014. But Why Now?

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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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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services. The company’s last VC round in early 2014 raised $7 million.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company, which started in 2014, now has over 40 employees. They've solved it at the enterprise paint point, where we are at the mid-market. Mike Whitmire: We put the first version of our software out in 2014, and got a couple of beta clients. We took it to the market in January of 2015. What are you working on?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

The account “hack” was architected by brud as part of an ongoing virtual reality drama playing out on Instagram and other social media platforms between avatars it had developed, all designed to attract media attention, according to people with knowledge of brud and its plans. ” That was a lie. It worked. .

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

How much will social media fame cost you in 2014? The social media industrial complex is fraught with digital marketers and consultants who puff up their abilities and accomplishments. I tell my clients to be honest in their marketing, and in turn strive to walk the talk. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

Citron previously founded and sold Mogreet, a developer of mobile marketing software, among other ventures. Pledgeling has built a technology platform that makes it super easy to integrate charity into their customer experience, and, as we say, grow through giving. What is Pledgeling? How did you decide to get into this as a company?

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

There’s just no getting around it: part of building any strong startup means cultivating a robust online presence that reaches directly to today’s tech savvy market. A recent post on Marketing Land shows that more than 120 different ad agencies have increased their digital advertisement outreach via videos 88.6

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

SaaS – or Software as a Service – platforms are all the rage. Quintype thinks that digital publishing – which relies on platforms such as wordpress, drupal and other CMS platforms – has been stuck in the dark ages. Here are four that are blazing trails right now: Quintype.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2014

How big is this market? Nanxi Liu: In 2010, an industry report came out that predicted that digital signage was going to be a $4 billion market in 2014. What''s a unique part of what we do, that no other competitor does, is that we''re built as an open platform. Our software is an open platform.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. The other, interesting part of our platform, is it integrates with all of your contacts. So, from a market perspective, we think it fits really well.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We knew there would be a need in the commercial market, and prepared for it by building a viable, commercial-off-the-shelf product. We ended up positioning ourselves around 2008 to start developing and marketing the product. What''s the background of your team? We released our software to the general public in August of 2013.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Our platform enables them to manage the digital representation of their locations, and engage with consumers in paid, social, and search, to improve that customer experience. Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. How did you get involved with MomentFeed? We accomplished that, that did it well.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

We were building about 300 to 400 products a year for other people, including tons of apps, for tons of startups, and were managing tens of millions of marketing spend for those clients every month. Instead, we were going linear, and free, so we just took the market. We were still building the product and marketing it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Exciting new technologies these days range from the easier to use social media software platforms I see almost every week, to new transportation models, like consumer space travel and hydrogen fuel autos. Your passion isn’t enough to create a market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android. Build your own marketplace platform.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

The world today is going increasingly digital, to such a degree that even quick serve and fast casual restaurant chains are eager to connect with consumers online, via smartphone, and even in their stores--so that they can better get to know you, market to you, and encourage you to visit. Our platform encompasses several things.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2015

Incentive , the Venice-based socially powered mid-market and enterprise collaboration platform has created a secure solution that takes the pain out of collaboration by centralizing all content into one place. This is why collaboration platforms need to look at single-tenant deployments, rather than multi-tenant.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

That was in 2014, and that was our pivot moment. Anne Fulton: I'm actually a Kiwi, a New Zealander, and all of our product and marketing is done out of New Zealand. It all happened in 2014, really fast. The education around new products and bringing them to the market is the same in both markets.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Eli Aizenstat: Beatshare is a multimedia messaging platform, where we are bringing music into the heart of the communication space. Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. That's areas like business development, forming the company, in marketing and sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

I built it on a platform given to me for free by a company that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars of which I receive value. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 7, 2014. Sometimes the platform can be right about their business but the market loses. As a user – yes. As a business – no. YnJM8aeru9.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Look beyond today’s requirements for entire new market opportunities.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

” Daniel McCaffrey, GM Platform and Analytics at Zynga said Data Elite was a novel move to help grow startups in the ever-growing data sciences industry. Beginning January 15 2014, Data Elite is searching for companies that use data to drive big disruption. The package of a lifetime. This package is however not for everyone.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 14, 2014

They have created a handful of successful games on iOS, Android and Facebook platforms with hits such as Cookie Jam and Paint Monsters. We founded the company on the premise that we should build a game once and distribute it across all platforms: mobile, social, web. The Book of Life premiers on October 17, 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

He jumped into some portfolio company exercises to help with pricing strategies, budget templates, M&A support, marketing function reviews, etc and started to show us how valuable he was to entrepreneurs. And we had to then build out new marketing materials and a website. And believe me they were vocal about it.

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