socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2010

Aliso Viejo-based e-commerce firm Buy.com said Wednesday that it has updated its mobile e-commerce web site. Buy.com is in the midst of a $250M acquisition by Japanese firm Rakuten. The firm said that the mobile site now adds full search and checkout capabilities, and improved mobile shopping. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This reduces the cost of customer acquisition, allows easy upgrades for service and new features, and improves customer loyalty in the face of new competitors in the market. Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. John Tomich: OneStop Internet is an e-commerce services company.

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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.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It It also is a burgeoning sector.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. But it’s a real phenomenon.

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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.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2018

A spokesman for the Chinese Commerce Ministry said the actions by China about Qualcomm and. The lack of approval from the Chinese government was not taken well in the U.S., with speculation that it was related to the escalating trade feud between the two countries. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

That popularity helped drive Instagram's recent acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion. was community and content, we think Web 3.0 will be community, content, and commerce--but not just any commerce, but frictionless commerce, and make that user experience as if it's real life.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We started because of a relationship with a new food, which was just about to be launched, which was really interesting for e-commerce. In 1995, I fell in love with the Internet, and got a very early version of the web browser, and joined as one of the first twenty employees at Lycos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Content is king of the road.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2017

There were lots of things we did around investment and acquisitions. The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web 2.0 I had the opportunity to work with such aspirational brands as Lululemon and Underarmor. I was in the consumer, retail space.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Every time they did a distributed, web-based project, they realized they were reinventing the wheel. That means there are limits to how much it can scale, and deal with the kind of applications people need today for web applications, e-commerce applications, and cloud applications.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

billion acquisition ( disclosed last November ) by the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. An existing investor, Los Angeles-based Aspiration Growth, joined in the round, along with unnamed investors. The deal also reflects Petco’s expanding interests in technology following the company’s $4.6-billion

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The constrai.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

The Bitcoinference served as day 1 of 2 for 500 Startups’ “Commercism” series, with an official agenda that covered industry happenings, social dynamics, and a look into the investment environment. Dan, now named as Product Manager for the Blockchain acquired Zeroblock apps, tells the audience about life after acquisition.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. Our largest investment was a partnership with Norman Lear's Act III Communications, we did a series of acquisition in the movie theater space.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

And of course the big question is whether Salesforce.com can out innovate these startups (especially after their acquisition of InStranet ). Expect great things from Assistly. Tynt Multimedia “Online tool that allows content sites to control copy-paste activity on their web sites.&# For starters I LOVE the idea for this product.

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Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc. Startup 2.0:

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I need to send marketing, e-commerce or e-statements emails to my customers to drive revenue or reduce costs. Startup 3.0:

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

When Facebook was opening up their platform, these guys thought that it was an interesting way to do user acquisition and preference acquisition of individuals and that they would be able find a way to monetize it in commerce-oriented verticals. And we also talked about what it’s like to work with Steve Case.

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Venture Capital Examples Startup Invest 277

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). Social Networking in Web 1.0: Social Networking in Web 2.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). Competition: Gilt Groupe , Ideeli , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , OneKingsLane , department stores like Saks and Neiman Marcus. -Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. With the web, you can change things everyday because it is always in your control. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Real-time information drives commerce. Referral Network – Twitter started as a way to integrate web messaging with text messaging. Providing near real-time information to financial traders made Michael Bloomberg a billionaire and helped create the powerhouse Reuters. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.

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