Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. A new generation of content producer and video style has emerged that is distinctly different from what you see in TV.

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. But, how do you figure out what actual content will resonate with online consumers? My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement.

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Content News Startup Research 230

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. Once we had what we thought was the answer, in allowing for display advertising on these sites. a month for a subscription.

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Metrics Sites Advertising Web 207

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Personalized card-linked offers Edo has raised $15million, ready to set a new trend in the payments and advertising sector. Based both in Nashville, Tennesse and Chicago, edo provides personalized card-linked offers to consumers on their credit cards, debit cards and mobile devices. For Customer Acquisition and Loyalty.

Advertising 64

Advertising Media Networking Capital 64

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. Andy Steuer: Punchcard is a mobile loyalty rewards app. While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. What is Punchcard?

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Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. Example here: [link].

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Startup Los Angeles Twiistup Social Network 225

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

This is why the smartest analysts thinking about the MCN space have often compared the MCNs to “ad networks” which are the middlemen who sit between advertisers and publishers and often take a 15-17.5% Yes, we understand that it’s all about providing high-quality content. But the best MCNs are so much more.

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Networking Media Content Customer 366

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. How big is YP?

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. How big is YP.com?

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. There was an opportunity to capture htose advertiser dollars, and do it by serving up a product that was compelling to both advertisers and consumers. How have you managed the high cost of creating content?

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Advertisers. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Technology.

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SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon Technology Council 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

He also leads mergers and acquisitions and ran the acquisitions of SGN, MindJolt and HallPass Media. He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu. It generates revenues through Subscription, Virtual Currency and Advertising.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Doorman is the mobile friendly middleman to accept, then redeliver your packages in 1-2 hour windows up to midnight. Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators. Their solution is ingenius in its design. through organic interactions from the community.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. I believe that the advertisers they started with were probably disappointed that the cost per customer acquisition was not the same as search. Broadcast isn't like that.

Google 124

Google Advertising Media Startup 124

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

This also would give the client the upper hand in discussions with advertisers, image providers, URL shorteners, etc. And aside from having great market power (the main reason for Twitter to own the client and the customer) advertising is one of the primary reasons that I believe Twitter needs to own the client applications.

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Jeb Spencer is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of TVC Capital , a growth equity firm focused on the investment in and acquisition of business critical software companies. This is really just the beginning of the extraordinary things that are happening across the technology landscape. READ MORE>>.

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Capital Beverly Hills Artificial Inteligence Equity 100

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

Users of the Instagram mobile application--which runs on iPhone and Android--are familiar with how that app has become one of the key ways people socialize and share their life with others, all via the service's photo sharing and comments. That popularity helped drive Instagram's recent acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion.

Startup 174

Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I think everybody heard about this acquisition. On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. This is a CDN (Content Delivery Network).

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

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

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

What made Twitter unique was the infrastructure and psychology that coincided with the rise of mobile text messaging. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. The fact that Twitter built a product around the mobile phone culture right out of the gate is significant: it created a new social pipeline.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping development, Startup, Website content. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Apps, content, mobile. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization cloud, freelance, mobile. . Babette Pepaj, BakeSpace.com. Unger, John T. Unger, LLC.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Viddy, a mobile-video-sharing company, has its office a block from Google in Venice. Subscriber Content Read Preview.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs. Ryan Magnussen – Grail , making content curation on the web even easier.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. The Past (1985-2002).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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MARCH 1, 2011

Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Thanks to our advertisers. Follow PandoDaily: Search. Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Post navigation. ← Previous.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

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JUNE 12, 2010

Content, of course, is the same!]. New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). Free experience is web and mobile app-based, has ads, limited skipping, and limited listening time (40 hours/month). Total: $41.0mm plus undisclosed Series A.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Viral – One of the most important value drivers of any social network is the degree to which it makes content go viral. as an example of why I shouldn’t be investing in the Twitter ecosystem any longer. Twitter is inherently viral.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307