socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. Every one of those writers has a byline and a bio, and are paid twice a week at a pretty decent rate for that writing or assignment. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.

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Demand Media eHow Content 240

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

However, in a very unusual move, the City of Los Angeles has tapped a true technology veteran and insider, well known to those here in the industry-- Peter Marx , most recently at Qualcomm--to head up the city''s efforts to both adopt technology and improve the city''s relationship with its growing technology companies. Thanks, and good luck!

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Los Angeles Technology Startup Examples 203

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We also talk about creating things specifically for the web, how to distribute on the web, and how to build a revenue stream aside from advertising revenue. What's your background?

Web 187

Web Content Startup Education 187

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I had my own list on my iPhone, writing down what I wanted to watch, and where those shows are. We're startng with advertising, but we want to do a really good job and not have things look like NASCAR. We think we can do the job with limited advertising and sponsored advertising, with a little bit of programmatic ads.

Startup 113

Startup Netflix Ideas Content 113

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

They have lost lots of advertising and subscription revenue, because you can get news online, and it's free. But, only about 30 percent of their pages are monetized, which they sell at a very low CPM to advertising networks. How has the economy affected advertising placements on your network? Vince Bianco: No.

News 124

News Advertising Press Sites 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Sunil Rajaraman: That's a good question.

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

The last time we spent much time chatting with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage , they were at Los Angeles telephony software firm Fonality , busy getting their employees set up in a full blown, mixed-martial arts (MMA) "fight club". When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names.

Startup 174

Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

BetaWorks was an angel investor in Summize, which was purchased by Twitter for its search engine. You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it. Howard Lindzon: Twitter is a great lead generation engine.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. You're known as quite the angel investor here in companies (ie. What's the idea behind Maple Media?

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Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2011

Our daily lives are filled with advertisements of the latest and greatest technologies offering to “change the way we live.” Maybe you were reading the latest magazine and breezed right pass an advertisement offering a 10% discount if you scanned their code.

Advertising 87

Advertising Content Template Technology 87

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

That one thing, in the case of Los Angeles-based FamousBirthdays.com , is creating an online resource all about--you guessed it--famous birthdays. We get wired with a payment at the end of the month, and never have to worry about collecting, and don''t have to talk to advertisers. The good thing about that is it''s very scalable.

Google 236

Google Sites Startup Web 236

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. How did you decide to launch HitFix?

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. We've had close to 2 million tasks people have put into there in the last four months, and all this without any PR or advertising, completely organic.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

Causecast 222

Causecast Startup Content Education 222

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

We know that their model works for a certain type of content but we believe we can build higher value sites where we can sell premium advertising and target niche audiences. I know you’re a VC and we’re not ready for a large round – do you know any angels that might be interested in our space? We deliver much higher CPMs”.

Startup 315

Startup Content Conference Media 315

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

From there most websites unfortunately don’t know what to really do with it so it basically just becomes a way to log you in and potentially allow advertisers to serve up more targeted (and therefore higher CPM) ads. A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. For Meebo 1.3%

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

In this interview, we catch up with an amazing TechZulu Spotlight alumnus, Joey Flores, CEO of Earbits , a hand-curated music discovery engine that allows its bands and artists to advertise and promote their own material, events, announcements, contests, whatever. What was the original inspiration behind Earbits? But sell them to who?

Startup 80

Startup Design Advertising Search Engine Optimization 80

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

Earlier this month, Los Angeles startup Dollar Shave Club (www.dollarshaveclub.com) made a huge splash with its launch of a subscription, monthly delivery service for razor blades. My first job was as a page at NBC, and after that I went and did a year and a half of writing and production at MSNBC with Keith Olbermann and Chuck Scarborough.

Dollar Shave Club 210

Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more. If u see an article or write a blog post, email us or leave a comment below with a link to your story and we’ll add it in. Demo Day / Angel Pitch. Tons of info and tons of fun!”

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. If a tutor were to go out and try to advertise like we do, they would go under, and they'd lose money right away. That's a great question.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Since selling Matt has gone on to become one of the smartest angels I have seen operate. Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program? Here’s a summary of our interview.

Acquisition 304

Acquisition Startup Customer Custom 304

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Investors will look at which angels you chose, whether old bosses invested, whether you were an EIR somewhere and did they invest, etc. Future investors will also look at whether your angels “re-upped&# if you hit a bump in the road. The signaling affect is overrated. Everything you do is a signal.

Seed Funding 298

Seed Funding Funding Venture Capital GRP Partners 298

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

For those of us without angel investors, there are still plenty of reasons to move ahead with new ventures, and we are not alone: It's all you. An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause. Your mortgage and grocery bill depend on it.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

Advertisers upload their 30 second ads and each time a user watches the ad, they receive $.50. Targeted mobile advertising. After choosing one of their affordable monthly service fee plans, users simply interact with their advertisers. AdWallet (Albuquerque, NM). That’s the concept behind AdWallet.

Startup 79

Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. It's in advertising, public relations, and for the last fifteen years, television. We grew out of an interesting use case.

Journal 187

Journal USC News Startup 187

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Her show’s local success led to a meeting in Los Angeles with several ABC network executives. The ratings were poor, the writing was uninspired and Oprah did not have enough time or energy to devote to the show. Saying “No” to certain advertisers was a cornerstone of her authenticity, which ultimately led to her global popularity.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Networking Entrepreneur 279

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Jenna can write a recommendation on Andy’s profile or send an email to friends recommending Andy, one of his workout plans or the fitness event she’s registered for. Advertising revenue is generated from each site visitor, paid or otherwise. Jenna can also search for local events, boot camps, or fitness classes. Any competition in LA?

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Last week, Savings.com , the online coupon site based in Los Angeles, made a big move into the world of grocery store coupons, from its existing business providing coupon codes and deals for the online world. I''m pulling up the app right now, and it says that Albertson''s here in Los Angeles has Hunt''s Ketchup, 24 oz.,

Mobile 140

Mobile Sales Startup Sites 140

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

Jeff Zwelling is the co-founder of Convertro (www.convertro.com), a Los Angeles company focused on helping companies track how their marketing efforts are leading to sales conversions. So how did you end up here in the Los Angeles area? Jeff Zwelling is one of those. I grew up here.

Startup 210

Startup Marketing Customer Custom 210

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 The advertiser who bought the ads might pay the ad network in 60 days. Not necessarily.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. We'll even write a half a million check. Matt Coffin, who is one of the prominent angel investors here, and who founded LowerMyBills, has told this story publicly.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

Venture Capital 363

Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Market Size. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150