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 told us why, in a world full of social networking apps, why Pod.io Jo Webber: We've done a seed round of $5M, which we raised earlier in 2020. What is Pod.io?

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JANUARY 1, 2021

Since it’s January 1st and I know many people are scrambling to put together plans for what to eat I thought I’d just start with a question I know is on many people’s minds, “what should I eat in 2021 to make it healthier than 2020?” I have always been a “stress eater” so recognizing this helps me a great deal. I’m not a teetotaler.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

For example, you may feel you are saving money by doing all your own administrative work and monitoring social media feedback. Prioritize your tasks ahead of helping others with theirs. Most often, smart scheduling and delegation is more effective help than instantly dropping your own work.<

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

Include marketing initiatives to educate and help customers. Believe it or not, Facebook started at Harvard and promoted its exclusivity to this school, then slowly spread to others, when rival social media platform MySpace was inviting everyone to join. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/29/2020.

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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. A company like Moe will help legitimize the industry,” Bernstein tells TechCrunch. “I 2020 will be a watershed year for investment in businesses around the creator economy,” Neil Robertson tells TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

Meta isn’t the only tech company looking to carve out its own identity by helping people craft theirs using digital avatars. Genies has made forays into fashion before — the startup partnered with Gucci back in 2020 to give the retailer’s customers access to try on new virtual designs and to buy curated digital goods.

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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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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. This means identifying initiatives early, communicating openly with your team, and asking for their help on the dilemmas of production cuts and layoffs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Your new car is a pleasure to drive, online shopping takes out the pain, and social media makes connection to old friends fun. Even though none of us can really see around corners, it helps to overtly hone your business acumen to see bends in the road before others. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/22/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2020

Most successful startups I know were built by a team, rather than a lone entrepreneur, so don’t be afraid to ask for help. 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

MARCH 2, 2020

These days, even with the pervasive Internet and social media, it still takes time and money for your marketing and customer communication efforts to have an impact. Expand your own learning and knowledge by helping others. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/17/2020.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The former founder of the publicly traded Shenzhen-based gaming publisher iDreamSky, acknowledged that his new company couldn’t work in China’s tightly controlled social media market. Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections for Democrats. were a foreign concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

Even the best solutions these days need to be marketed on multiple platforms, including online, social media, and the proper industry and customer channels for customer geographies. Mark personally invented the early Facebook social network, while he was at Harvard, and went on to build a huge business.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Most people don't want injectsion, radio frequency, or ultrasounds, and it helps that we can work with pregnant women. 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. We then started to help clients switch to marketing using our own machines.

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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. That said, it does come with a challenge.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

In my home town of Santa Monica they painted 19 miles of bike lanes green to help delineate bikes & scooters from cars and they built 3 miles of soft barriers to test how this works with traffic flow. Last year I pointed out that software would help build competitive moats and we’re already seeing that.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 28, 2016

As cloud-based architecture continues to develop and evolve, very likely businesses will find additional uses for this helpful feature. This trend emerges in particular in the conduct of successful social media campaigns. These trends appear likely to keep clouds important to business computing in the foreseeable future.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you want to create the next Serial , we can help you upload it, but you'll need to contribute the ethical journalism practices yourself. In 2020, only the passion projects will have what it takes to succeed. How to record a podcast. A reasonably high-quality microphone is likely the biggest investment you'll need to make.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. Everyone has an opinion, but only IBM’s cognitive computer Watson has a Personality Insights analyzer.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. Everyone has an opinion, but only IBM’s cognitive computer Watson has a Personality Insights analyzer.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

But for creators seeking to monetize their following, these newer platforms may be more attractive to some creators, since they already have built-in tools to help them monetize their followings. So, in February 2020, with little to no funding left, the company completely pivoted to its current link-in-bio business. With its $5.5

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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. Analyzing the massive sets of data available on toxic emissions and weather patterns can help us understand environmental threats on a systemic level. Social media and web data. Every day, we create 2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors. Marty Zwilling First published on Predictable Designs on 06/10/2020. Budget time and dollars for each.

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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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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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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It’s obvious to me that the future of dating will involve mobile, social networks that tell us more about the compatibility of the people around us. If you don’t manage what is said about you in social networks it could be detrimental. They have become a juggernaut in online advertising, pictures, video and online games.

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