socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

According to a statement on Twitter's blog, it shut down the access, for "violating our policies." The move is not the first battle between Twitter and a Southern California Twitter-focused startup; last May, fellow Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly, based in Los Angeles, faced a similar situation with Twitter when it banned in-stream ads.

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Idealab Southern California Pasadena Blogging 200

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Xconomy

MARCH 19, 2017

Heller founded Wrapify in early 2015 with the idea of creating a business that would pay motorists to wrap their cars in digitally printed advertising.

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Advertising Glendale San Diego Incubator 45

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I originally came from the entreprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I was in mobile & telecoms (8 years) so the last three years of immersing myself in consumer Internet, digital media & advertisings has been very eye opening. I put up a button on my blog and noticed that I got a few clicks on the button.

News 284

News Blogging Search Engine Optimization SEO 284

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the venture funded online advertising effort run by Frank Addante, is reporting this morning that advertising CPMs were flat in Q4, even as the firm said it had an 30 percent growth in revenue across its publishers. Tags: project rubicon report advertising. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Advertising Report Entertainment 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Los Angeles-based Shopit, a developer of online shopping widget software, said today that it has raised $2.5M Shopit develops software which can be embedded in social networking profiles, blog pages, and on other web pages for selling products. in a Series B funding. READ MORE>>

Social Network 113

Social Network Blogging Los Angeles Advertising 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

But they make the overwhelming majority of their money from advertising. They are selling audiences to advertisers. Whenever I talk about advertising people comment how much everybody hates ads. The customer are advertising agencies and brands themselves. Ads are effective. As I said, YOU are the product. Believe me.

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Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. In 1986 I started an advertising and public relations firm to serve software and hardware companies, which became a marketing consulting business ( www.Allen.com ) when I moved to L.A. Great stuff. That's great to hear.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Networking Marketing Startup 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Don’t hide behind a website with no address, picture, or direct contact information. Automate to the max.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Ad-Juster, a San Diego adtech startup acquired earlier this year by the investment arm of China’s Innotech International Group, Wednesday named local software entrepreneur Dennis Clerke as CEO. He succeeds Ad-Juster founder and president Mike Lewis, who has left the company. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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San Diego Equity Advertising Acquisition 52

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. How did you and Charlotte get into software? SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. We scaled that to almost $1.4

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? This Panel will explore issues such as: How can companies best utilize social networking media?

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I ended up doing consulting work for high tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in the software messaging area, and then came back to Los Angeles doing corporate sales for 3M, of all things. It's really been word of mouth, really viral, because we've never advertised. That's now what we're advertising.

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Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

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. He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning. Robert Flynn: Yes. What's the scale out plan for business?

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Don’t hide behind a website with no address, picture, or direct contact information. Automate to the max.

Startup 107

Startup Technical Review Case Study Software Review 107

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". As you know, the comments at the foot of every blog out there that is really kind of a big waste of time.

Startup 174

Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business.

SEM 95

SEM Search Engine Optimization Blogging PPC 95

Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2019

But the growing concern about the pervasive control of tech giants in arenas such as social media, advertising, and e-commerce stemmed first from revelations about consumers’ lack of meaningful control over the privacy of their personal data.

Social Media 75

Social Media Commerce Google Advertising 75

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. they have purchasing intent ).*. The Application.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

If you get a moment, as a favor to John for having produced such wonderful notes I’d be grateful if you would check out his most excellent startup blog The X Factor. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. He wanted Quigo to be in the business of letting advertisers buy directly into the system.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

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Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media Outsource Development 108

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Check your brand definition against the clarity of this one from Xerox for office software. For example, if your world is printers, your blogging messages better match your print advertising message. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. Spend your time and money on other platforms.

Social Media 58

Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers. We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year. You must invest in technology.

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Google’s market capitalization is in the stratosphere for a reason – keyword search advertising is highly effective. John Wanamaker.

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Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2013

Under her leadership, Technorati Media has become a profitable integrated online media company with an advertising network, social rich media technology platform, and the internet’s largest blog directory. Technorati Media is the 8th largest social media property and the 3rd largest blog property.

Social Media 72

Social Media Media Blogging Platform 72

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. This blog post lays out my case. In the end, Seth Godin’s comments on Fred’s blog post said it best: “His black swan is showing. The money slide is the graphic below. the rest of the time.

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Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Believe me, the business implications are already critical to your success or failure as an entrepreneur: Blog. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business. Social networks. Pay per click (PPC).

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Entrepreneur SEM Search Engine Optimization Blogging 89

Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The tech industry, which reaps billions of dollars by harvesting personal data and using it to sell targeted advertising and other services, opened the door to federal data privacy regulations today in a proposal by ITI, a lobbying organization for tech companies.

Framework 79

Framework Google Advertising Organization 79

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. We're expanding into other news centric sites, such as user-generated news, big blogs, etc.

News 124

News Advertising Press Sites 124

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Fast forward a couple of years and the company is now beyond 8-figure million of recurring revenue, has dozens of sales reps and growing rapidly and is now gearing up for multiple offices, enterprise integrations and relationships with Salesforce.com, HubSpot, Marketo, Marin Software and many others. And here’s the thing.

Startup 325

Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

Craigslist - He also considered advertising on Craigslist, but again was concerned about quality. The LA CTO Forum , which I help organize, has more than 100 Software/Web CTOs from all sorts of companies. For anyone who reads this blog, if you are looking for particular kind of web developers in Los Angeles, feel free to contact me.

Web Development 167

Web Development Los Angeles Web Develop 167

socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly. Dan and I, my co-founder, obviously have social networking and advertising backgrounds. First off, what is Namesake all about? Brian Norgard: Namesake is a conversation community.

Social Network 273

Social Network Startup West Hollywood Ideas 273

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well.

Blogging 219

Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Don’t hide behind a website with no address, picture, or direct contact information. Automate to the max.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105