TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

(Hint: 60 million US Latinos driving US growth engine) I am beyond excited to announce the Herb Scannell has agreed to move from NYC to Los Angeles to take on the role of CEO at mitú, the fast growing Latino digital media company, serving more than 100 million monthly unique viewers. trillion in 2020 (U.S. Yes, with a “B.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Customers these days are turned off by timeless safe messages, delivered repeatedly on traditional media. Every consumer today wants to be an insider and development contributor to the finished product, or at least feel connected to it throughout the process. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/03/2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

At Upfront we believe in improving access for founders and entrepreneurs to networking, professional development, and economic opportunities, and that’s what Kobie set out to do with Valence , which he incubated in our offices. in this video from the 2020 Upfront Summit. yes, THE John Legend?—?in And Ahmaud Arbery.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

To build it, weve hired some amazing people, including Nick Kim, who is now leading platform development at Crosscut. So far, under Nicks leadership, weve built sourcing and pipeline management systems, a portfolio growth and development platform, and a job board to serve the entire city named Interchange. in 2005 for $680M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events. Develop a product line and add alternate channels. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/15/2020.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

So, in February 2020, with little to no funding left, the company completely pivoted to its current link-in-bio business. The company also wants to develop educational content to show its users how to best monetize their platform — if Snipfeed can help its creators make money, then it’ll make more money too. With its $5.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

You alone will never find enough hours in a day to keep with all the challenges of sales, support, and scaling the business, in addition to developing and delivering your solution. Your leadership skills do not develop without effort. Start with a range of platforms, including social media, advertising, and a great website.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In the past 5 years some of the best investors in the country could simply anoint winners by giving them large amounts of capital at high prices and then the media hype machine would create awareness, talent would race to join the next perceived $10bn winner and if the music never stops then everybody is happy. Except the music stopped.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2021

If you have a development organization which is never ready to ship, and insist on continually adding new features, or doing more testing, the ready-aim-fire approach will not likely happen. Firing at some market will at least give you the feedback necessary to direct appropriate development.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

The Los Angeles-based company partnered with NBA Top Shot NFT creator Dapper Labs to develop the storefront on Dapper’s Flow blockchain and debuted it to a group of invite-only beta users in December last year, TechCrunch reported at the time.

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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. The first phase was the rise of the media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, etcetera, that allowed creatives to build audiences. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

Apple expanded their business exponentially with app developers, and Amazon found new ways to make their suppliers look and act like they are part of the business. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/29/2020. Build relationships and partnerships to expand your influence. Market an image of exclusivity or premium only.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

For example, I used to regularly hear pitches for the next great social media site, usually focused on a special interest or niche , such as photography, cooking, healthy living, or a thousand others. Initially, you may be able to do everything in your startup, including product development, marketing, and shipping orders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/19/2020. Try that mindset next time!

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 6, 2020

Today, major media prognosticators including market research company Forrester and the Interactive Advertising Bureau foresee podcasting as the next billion-dollar media market , with a report from the latter saying that one-billion-dollar mark could be surpassed as soon as 2021. Even some pros use it. How to host a podcast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. That keeps people from pushing themselves to develop the kind of new solutions that will permanently change the business for the better, versus short-term band-aids. Connect operations today with long-term goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

If you want to join the ranks of entrepreneurs and businesses who have a reputation for being ahead of the pack, for being an initiator rather than a follower, such as Apple and Nike , here are five key strategies and skills to develop that I recommend and practice: Develop a mindset of constant change required to thrive.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

Mark, a joint venture between the Danish game development firm Sybo and the Chinese mobile game publisher iDreamSky, uses augmented reality to permanent installations of digital street art. Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections for Democrats. were a foreign concept.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Today's interview is with Jo Webber , the CEO and founder of Pod.io , a startup which has developed an app to help people connect with others over shared interests. Jo Webber: We've done a seed round of $5M, which we raised earlier in 2020. Jo told us why, in a world full of social networking apps, why Pod.io What is Pod.io?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2020

So how do you develop that reputation such that everyone believes in you, and customers jump to try your solution first? These days, with the pervasive presence of social media, blogs, and online access to information, it’s easy to get your message out there, and engage a following.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. Social media and web data. Social media postings and e-Commerce transactions are just a couple of the sources of external data that are of great interest to many companies. Every day, we create 2.5

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

According to Cisco the number of connected “things” will balloon to 50 billion by 2020. 2020 seems like a decade away into space, however Motreal-based reelyActive, the winner os Startup World Competition , is doing just this. Hyperlocal context. Virtual footprint. That’s where they come in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Marty Zwilling First published on Predictable Designs on 06/10/2020. You need both to survive. Budget time and dollars for each.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We caught up with Soylent VP of Marketing, Andrew Thomas , to hear how the company finally decided to embrace the nameand the frequent trolling on social mediato instead emphasize the sustainable aspects of its products, as well as the new product line, with Plants, Not People. We ended up developing that for our launch in September.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. We're the first on the market, and it's completely insane that in 2020, everything is organic and this segment of the market is not. What is Ulevate?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This is a whole new world for small businesses seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions. billion by 2020.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 28, 2016

Very likely, the next five years will witness some exciting new developments in programs designed to address Business Process Management (BPM). As cloud-based architecture continues to develop and evolve, very likely businesses will find additional uses for this helpful feature. Improved Fraud Detection Capabilities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 60% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least seven more years, to 2020. Six out of 10 Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

As drivers we look out for them, as pedestrians we might be annoyed if they steer in our way but the riders themselves have developed better norms as happens in all forms of transportation. They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. They’re not new. They’re not novel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 62% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least nine more years, to 2020. Half of the Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, an 88 percent growth from the previous year.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since that time the speed at which companies have developed both technologically and from a business perspective has been nearly as staggering as the 760 mph system itself. This has caused much confusion both in the public and the media. Hyperloop One likewise saw value in creating an ultra-high speed passenger transportation line.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 62% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least nine more years, to 2020. Half of the Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, an 88 percent growth from the previous year.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2015

As heated as this fight has been, it may be time to take some of the attention away from the cloud wars and instead focus on a rapidly developing new battlefield: the Internet of Things (IoT). As we now know, blu-rays won out because more media companies and manufacturers adopted them than the alternative.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Greg Memo: I was most recently the general manager of the consumer business organization at Cisco, which developed the Linksys Router. What our platform does, it is connects them to the cloud and a base service, for energy management, home automation, and media services. One, is the inability to have usable products.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

Left untreated, Heather and Jessica, who have a slower-developing form of the disease, might expect to continue to get weaker as time goes on. The stories from within their communities—like that of Heather and Jessica Tomko, who agreed through Cure SMA to speak with the media—can lead to awareness and help their cause.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Compound that by the exponential growth of smart devices from 2011-2013 , we’re looking at a need for rapid development in the next few years. As we know, the automotive industry’s development cycle averages around 4-5 years and isn’t known for their ability to make rapid changes, especially when compared to tech.

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