socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

There's massive inefficiency in this category. What's critical, is we don't run a network, install antennas, or build up a network. We've only got 40-45 people, versus if you look at a Verizon or AT&T, where they have tens of thousands of people having to support their network and provide customer support.

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2010

Funk is a venture capitalist who founded OceanRoad Partners and has been a Managing Director with Allegis Capital, where he invested in Sandpiper Networks, Rent.com and Shopzilla. There were no IPO's in our category at all in 2001 and 2002 as the public markets languished in the doldrums following the declines of the previous year.

Southern California 145

Southern California Allegis Technical Review Acquisition 145

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We sat down with Scott Morrow President of Curatemedia, to hear more about the firm's strategy and the thinking behind the acquisition and new investment in the firm. For additional verticals, we'll expand that through additional acquisition or through organic sites launched internally. What verticals are you thinking about?

Content 165

Content Demand Sites Media 165

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

Nick Higgins: Adconion was founded six years ago as an advertising network. That was on the heels of CEO and Founder Tyler Moebius having several ventures into another ad network. Joost and our network serves as a platform for us to syndicate our content, using both the Joost player and the ad network combined.

Santa Monica 149

Santa Monica Content Platform Networking 149

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

…” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter. Your $200 million “small acquisition” is a cool 60% of all of their cash. Christin goes on.

Venture Capital 316

Venture Capital Pricing Social Network Acquisition 316

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Create an entirely new market space or new category. If your product or service is so unique and compelling that it’s able to define a whole new category, then you are the winner by default. Ride the network effect to more users than anyone. This isn’t easy to do, but it happens.

Netflix 54

Netflix Social Media Competition Custom 54

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Of course you can have a few competitors and still find enough charges but once you’ve gotten 2–3 big players in any city it’s hard to imagine many more players building out as efficient of a charger network as the early innovator. There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service!

Santa Monica 256

Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. To apply, go to [link].

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Orange County Southern California Westlake Village 100

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

To give you some numbers, we now have a network of 230 million unique visitors per month, and over 20 percent of that is mobile. As you know, Oversee is known for our traffic and traffic acquisition tools, but we're now also focusing on creating compelling, consumer products fueled by our accelerator services.

Mobile 224

Mobile CTO Hire CPC Web 224

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). Social network app developer and ad network.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2009

Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Cox Communications - Orange County - Looking for Product Marketing Manager.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Orange County Southern California IP 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. And social networks enabled rapid growth and also the ability to more easily find and play with friends or make new ones.

Startup 150

Startup Outsource Development Mobile Southern California 150

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. We are constantly learning, doing research, and networking with other entrepreneurs, and people in our business who are the best at what they do.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team. The same category as Fullscreen and Maker, but, unlike those companies, we''re not rolling up other channels. One of thing we did, is we became a MCN.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

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. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. How big is YP?

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Asher Delug: Airpush is a mobile ad network, similar to an Admob or Millenial Media. They''re starting to look at more advanced conversion funnels, LTV analysis, and we''re seeing an overall maturity of user acquisition techniques by big buyers. One big new category for us is data and targeting.

Startup 196

Startup Mobile Advertising Organization 196

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 103

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. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. How big is YP.com?

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002. You need to nurture non-organic growth partnerships and acquisitions to maximize your valuation. That’s necessary but not sufficient to scale most businesses.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

However, the ubiquity of the iPod including use by many folks who certainly would fall in the Time Rich category (lots of time to play with music) suggests that their product and marketing appeals to both segments. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

It's been a very busy for coupon and deal sites over the past few months, with a giant, $950M round of funding for Groupon, and the acquisition of at least three locally headquartered coupon and deal sites--LogicBuy.com, NextCoupons.com, and DealPerk--in the last month. It gives you high confidence in finding the best deal, very quickly.

Sites 217

Sites Content Sales Demand 217

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels. Thus, include these unattributed customers in your overall calculation of customer acquisition costs. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

Custom 164

Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once.

Media 92

Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Company 2 might represent an “ad mediation company” where the company gets paid by ad networks for running ads on publisher websites and the company in turn must pay the publisher 85% of the revenue it collects. This is precisely why large Internet categories often produce “winner takes most” outcomes.

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

This last category proved to be especially lucrative. Sexy enough to garner public relations coverage and breathe new life into otherwise staid product categories. Tags: Entrepreneur Networking Partnerships The Fringe. We hosted an annual user conference in Santa Barbara, attended by a couple hundred of the world’s top surgeons.

Entrepreneur 168

Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Startup Conference 168

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” ” I saw this first hand with the growth of the “flash sale” category. An ad network (the middleman) might sell $500,000 in ads. Amazing growth!”

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

If you are having trouble with your wireless network, or your printer, or moving photos from your iPhone to your PC, we're there to help you with any problems like that. It's not some brand new category where you're a startup hoping to find paying customers. I think the big challenge is going to be customer acquisition.

Demand 100

Demand Technical Support Startup Seed Funding 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

It really goes into two categories, around capacity and affordability. In addition, we use primary and secondary social networking information, in order to verify they are who they say they are. I was working in their corporate M&A department on a large acquisition project, and then ended up starting the company when I was here.

Startup 100

Startup Santa Monica Custom Customer 100

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

For lack of a better word, it's really social shopping--not in the way of using social networking to drive sales, but because moms are social, to allow them to share information regularly online. As we continue to grow, we are adding more and more categories, all around being healthy, and making it easy for healthy choices to be easy choices.

Software Review 200

Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yeah, I have made plenty of mistakes in this category in the past. 5) As an investor, I frankly find it tiresome the degree to which entrepreneurs attempt to hype their companies by integrating “social networks and social media” into their pitches. I overspent on stuff that didn’t matter or that I thought mattered.

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

In the era of social networking if you can’t figure out how to get intro’d to me you probably aren’t cut out to be an entrepreneur. Obviously if they are very wealthy or they fit categories 1-4 above I’d have a carve out. I get them all the time and I try to respond to as many of them as I possibly can.

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Network for professionals engaged in the acquisition, disposition, operation, development, leasing, brokerage, project management, tenant representation, and asset management of office, retail, land, industrial, and multi-family properties. You will receive in your inbox. Manage Email Preferences. Top Groups In Real Estate.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. In total, Demand Media owns 20 media networks in the US alone and is one of the best reasons why Paul Graham believes Hollywood is dead. Categories Deals. by Howard Marks on September 19, 2012.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75