Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. Every politician in the country knows this as well as every consumer brand, every retailer, every restaurant and every media company.

Invest 291

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. Quigo set up a system on specific web pages.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Our call recovered and we spent the rest of the time talking about the development of their management team and their product. Most notably you need to understand Earned Media and how blogging, public speaking and social media play an important role in the new PR landscape. PR is subtle. Again, I reiterate, it IS important.

Venture Capital 291

Venture Capital Press News Startup 291

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. In business as in other relationships, people on the team that have to be above reproach, committed, and working on the same page.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

Guest article by Richie Hecker, Founder of Bootstrapper Media. According to Patrick Vlaskovits another proselytizer of the term, “Growth hacking comes after the early stage chaos and post-product-market-fit.”. If you build it, they may not come : So, you’ve launched your product, and people use it and seem to like it.

Hulu 111

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Our clients are retail, technology, consumer product goods, and other companies who are trying to address challenges with a very complex, digital marketing mix they face every day. As you might imagine, I started as a brand manager in the consumer product goods market. Carla Bourque: My background is in marketing analytics.

Marketing 196

Marketing Pasadena Platform Email 196

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. In the online world, you need a solid connection between your domain name and your product, brand, or business. Social media activities require professional effort and time, so beware the hidden costs.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

Venture Capital 115

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2016

According to most experts , business traction is evidence that somebody really wants your product. It’s business momentum, independent of whether you have a product delivered, proven the business model, or significantly penetrated the opportunity. Build outside relationships with media and analysts.

Metrics 57

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

The driving force for me was the gap in the market which I saw, a disruption in media consumption patterns. Basically, that disruption is 18-34 year olds have changed how they consume media. That makes the model for content work a little better than just breaking news, where someone just comes in for one page and leaves.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. In business as in other relationships, people on the team that have to be above reproach, committed, and working on the same page.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. I started to build this into a media & entertainment value chain that broke down the components of the industry into discrete parts. Many people are visual thinkers. That’s a shame. If so, why?

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

So, when you like a band on Earbits, you're not liking their profile on Earbits, you're actually liking their official fan page, so they can communicate with you, and you can discovery their material effectively. Can you talk about what the new product is about? Joey Flores: It's a big win for both consumers and brands.

Demand 166

Demand Startup Platform Sites 166

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials.

Startup 190

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Assistly’s main competitor is ZenDesk, whom I’m told also has a great product. I played with both products and had good experiences. 2.2mm in Series A.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. I think everybody heard about this acquisition. Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. uh, hello!

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Now I don’t get any.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace. FatTail is solving the problem of buying and selling advertising, one I've seen as a challenge as long as I've been in the media business, which is twenty two years.

Advertising 100

Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Verizon , Monster Products , MerchLabs , HIRED , Instart Logic , Zeel , Shootly , Move Loot , Microsoft , American Laser Company , Zirx , DoorDash , Drizly. Green Way Labs develops high-performance cleaning products that are 100% non-toxic. DigiSynd manages Disney’s brand presence in the social media space. We thank you!

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly What does that mean? It is the town hall.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. The problem is that the average value of products that sell on affiliate networks is sub $100.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Publishers can come and snap valuable data into our website, to augment end user's experience, and developers can help user our data and our API to build more innovative applications, and to be more productive because of the significant availability of this trusted data. That became the underpinning of several products.

Startup 190

Startup Google S3 Platform 190

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The Exit Problem. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. Scuba or skydiving?

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. You might know Demand Media better as the people behind Cracked, DailyPuppy, and GolfLink. Follow PandoDaily: Search. Skip to primary content. Post navigation.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

We believe there are awesome entrepreneurs everywhere, not just in the places constantly covered by the media. Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media. We want to help them, and will.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

SXSWi is five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. Simply click on the title of the panel you like and you will be taken to their SXSWi panel picker page. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Now let’s move on to the first couple topics: Step 0: Pre-product. Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. Do this for a couple weeks!

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. A version of this article appeared October 5, 2012, on page M1 in the U.S.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44