socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2009

Los Angeles-based ShopIt , which develops online, e-commerce software which allows people to buy and sell products through social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, has been acquired by Altrinsic. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Tags: media ecommerce networking social altrinsic shopit.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Cooking.com operates an online e-commerce site focused on cookware, kitchen gadgets, and other related products, and also runs e-commerce sites for the Food Network, Rachael Ray, Paula Deen, Pillsbury, and others. READ MORE>>.

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Marina Del Rey Layoffs Commerce Tips 133

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. Lifestyle business owners usually benefit and enjoy being a part of the local Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, and other civic organizations. No exit planned until retirement.

Entrepreneur 148

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Course 148

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Woodland Hills-based United Online said Tuesday that it has hired an investment banker to sell its European social networking website, StayFriends. United Online also says that, as part of those efforts, it has also hired JMP Securities LLC to help it with M&A efforts, as it looks in the area of commerce and loyalty for growth.

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Woodland Hills Social Network Commerce Networking 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm.

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Pricing Cloud Computing Custom Customer 123

TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2022

Upgrade’s e-commerce marketplace has two sides: one that enables consumers to choose a vetted stylist and have their wig colored or customized based on their desired look. Winters explained that the driver for the new funding was technology and product development on the marketplace, marketing and stylist acquisition. Remember Mary J.

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Tool Custom Customer Marketing 179

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

ShoeDazzle.com , the online e-commerce startup headed by Brian Lee and whose co-founders include Kim Kardashian, scored top honors in the Best venture funding in digital media/e-commerce category. Finally, the Hottest startup award went to Beachmint , the e-commerce startup of former MySpace founder Josh Berman.

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LAVA Zumbox Technology ReachLocal 166

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Is your cell phone the secret to fixing e-commerce''s problem with abandoned shopping carts? We spoke with CEO and founder Jack Bicer --just back from DEMO--to learn more about the app and why he thinks the company has the solution to e-commerce shopping cart abandonment. So this is for e-commerce sites, not in person purchases?

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Startup Symantec Commerce Software 214

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. Previously he co-founded 3 tech companies, one in computer networks, one in logistics and one in biometric security.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2011

It became clear that the people with scale are famous people, so we set about building a network of influential people so when a marketer says, ‘I am looking to reach moms on Twitter’, we can match them with a couple of dozen celebrities and say ‘All of these women reach moms on Twitter.’”. I have been monetizing social media for six years.

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Social Media Platform Media Networking 252

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Commerce: What is less known is just how important LA is as a commerce hub.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm.

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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. We started because of a relationship with a new food, which was just about to be launched, which was really interesting for e-commerce.

Software Review 200

Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2012

At the time of the acquisition, we had 150 employees. The entire employee base is incentivized that way, and we're really about empowering merchants and empowering commerce locally here in the U.S. There's been a tremendous benefit for being part of the Rakuten network. We've also hired a lot.

Sites 210

Sites Commerce Pricing Product 210

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm.

Pricing 105

Pricing Cloud Computing Custom Customer 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm.

Pricing 52

Pricing Cloud Computing Custom Customer 52

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. Lifestyle business owners usually benefit and enjoy being a part of the local Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, and other civic organizations. No exit planned until retirement.

Startup 77

Startup Equity Entrepreneur Course 77

Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook.

Competition 64

Competition Social Media Web Commerce 64

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's the strategy behind acquisitions?

Content 165

Content Demand Sites Media 165

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. So, we''ve been looking at creating a create advertiser relationships with consumers, and enabling commerce.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mobile operators are kind of in the center of the crosshairs in regards of trying to figure out how to leverage their existing assets, networks , and users, and how to start creating revenue around that. where if you're doing anything with mobile commerce in the U.S. That's certainly the case in the U.S., Unlike the U.S.,

Mobile 140

Mobile Santa Monica Startup Commerce 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. Lifestyle business owners usually benefit and enjoy being a part of the local Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, and other civic organizations. No exit planned until retirement.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Course 69

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. The build “implicit social networks.&#

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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. So, we''ve been looking at creating a great advertiser relationships with consumers, and enabling commerce.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Everybody is Selling Something: The Arrival of "Me-Commerce". The "old school" models of e-commerce, as dominated by bulky hosted storefron. Entrepreneurism / Monetization e-commerce, monetization, Selling. . Social Networks and Citizen Commerce: Reinventing Ecommerce. Shop Blind No More: E-Commerce Re-Invented.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We've built some social curation tools, which use social signaling--tweets, clickthroughs, or comments on Facebook--and take what the network is deciding are important stories, and highlighting those and moving them further up on our site, so that the important stories on any given day are being highlighted. at that time.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

We can see marchan transactions, and if they are making e-commerce transactions, if they are paying things at small kiosks. In addition, we use primary and secondary social networking information, in order to verify they are who they say they are. We can see location information, payroll data, bank balances, and savings data.

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Startup Santa Monica Custom Customer 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Following graduate school, he worked in Film Finance and Sales at CAA, Creative Development at Vuguru (Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio), and Content Partnerships at Blip Networks. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world.

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Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

We caught up with Navid --one of a number of executives to have recently departed Buy.com after its acquisition a couple of years ago by Rakuten--to hear more about his new startup. Describe what Recmnd.me is all about? Navid Nobakht: We are building an online recommendation system that focuses on social recruiting.

CTO Hire 147

CTO Hire Startup Sites Technical Review 147

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

It had the audience, the people, the network, everything! The networks seem to be emphatic about monetization for the present. The networks must be bewildered by the fact that one of their main competitors is a company that started with a mail-based DVD service. Where exactly it missed the mark is hard to say.

Venture Capital 277

Venture Capital Examples Startup Invest 277

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Predictive automation that powers modern logistics & commerce. Fun Fact: Melissa has starred in docu-dramas and reality TV three times, on three different networks. B2B Demand Generation on Auto-Pilot – Metadata analyzes your inbound signups and automates b2b user acquisition by targeting new look-alike prospects.

Startup 40

Startup Training SaaS Walnut 40

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. Competitor: Slide.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Real-time information drives commerce. The Importance of Twitter. That was a mouthful of buzzwordtopia. Not so on Twitter.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. Lifestyle business owners usually benefit and enjoy being a part of the local Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, and other civic organizations. No exit planned until retirement.

Startup 92

Startup Entrepreneur Equity Course 92