Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

To make this work, you need heavy traffic on your site -- probably at least a million page views per month -- which most sites never achieve in their lifetimes. When Facebook did it a few years ago, the company used more than $100 million in venture capital funding before it became profitable.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

For today's interview, we caught up with Clark Landry , the chairman of GraphEffect (www.grapheffect.com), a Santa Monica company which is helping other companies to hone their advertising on Facebook. Clark Landry: GraphEffect is a company that helps other companies advertise effectively on Facebook. Thanks for the time today!

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2008

ShopIt said that the round is the first tranche of a $7M capital raise planned for the firm. Shopit develops software which can be embedded in social networking profiles, blog pages, and on other web pages for selling products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Thiel is providing his mentees with capital to make their startups a reality. When you don't accept capital from someone else, you aren't beholden to anyone else's input. But when your only capital is your hard-earned seed money, every penny that goes out will be scrutinized painfully. You can keep overhead low.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Press doesn’t mean anything other than free advertising. Our call recovered and we spent the rest of the time talking about the development of their management team and their product. In your VC pitch your PR page should take no longer than 30 seconds – Wait. PR is subtle. Again, I reiterate, it IS important.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! You guys did a lot of self-funding before you approached the venture capital community. The catalyst was that we saw the demand and it was confirmed by some of the leading advertisers in the marketplace.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. Not just what the product needed to look like, but how to sell it, and to make sure that the people we sold it to were really successful using it, and stayed with us. In 2013, Facebook local pages, Google Pages, and Yelp were not all that active.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Sara Bordo: I started working on the brand side at Estee Lauder in New York, and DDB in Chicago doing advertising. Sara Bordo: We built our product from scratch, from the multi bitrate player to chat, to the entire experience. Everything on a page on our site is not only about engagement but transactions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Ask yourself where are the influencers in your market, the majority of your target customers, and what type of interaction will be most productive to your business? SEM is the most common form of online marketing, which increases your website visibility on search engine results pages through optimization and advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. What does it take to get to that level?

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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.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. There was an opportunity to capture htose advertiser dollars, and do it by serving up a product that was compelling to both advertisers and consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 26, 2013

From gaming, to advertising, to branding and marketing, there’s no online business plan that Facebook can’t be used for at this point. It is now a standard with any new social network to be able to cater to both the consumer and the brand; the person and the product. Without that synergy, you no longer bring anything new to the table.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. What does it take to get to that level?

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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. Tell us about your Series A round and your relationship with Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha. Series A round.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 19, 2011

TechZulu is heading out to CES and we have tons of products/gadgets/games/companies to review and interview. Network with hundreds over delicious four course dinner followed by panel on Attracting Venture Capital, and Top Trends for Social Media, Mobile Apps and Consumer Devices. So make sure you Follow @techzulu.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. What does it take to get to that level?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2017

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. What does it take to get to that level?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

We create a profile page, which allows referrals to be sent out, to allow businesses to request things from their customers. I've actually gone to four startup, so far, taking them from prototype to production, when they are able to sell the company or have it run on its own. How far is the product?

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. website allowed engineers and engineering firms in the industry to advertise their products online, posts events, and. I had built the entire thing without outside capital, and with no credit. If you want to participate in. I knew, if you.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

View Staff Page. ” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. Advertise Here. Advertise Here. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew Graczyk is founder of angel-backed Zubican (www.zubican.com)--saw a problem, which was the difficulty of finding suppliers for products for businesses--and decided to solve the problem, with a site specifically targeted at helping B2B buyers and sellers connect. We've also got SEO feed pages. It's a double viral loop.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

This morning, Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com) announced a venture round from Velocity Interactive Group for its software for managing online advertising. 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.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. Determine a pricing system for your product(s). Track which products perform better, and which have the best margins.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Solution and benefits. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole.

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Under the program, the firm will offer five to six pre-funding entrepreneur groups, on a rolling basis, co-working space as well pro-bono access to the firm’s resources including legal services and introduction to sources of capital and other trusted services providers. Thanks to our advertisers. Follow PandoDaily: Search. Get Tickets.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

On opposite pages were two ads for two very large companies. Both companies were spending big bucks to advertise yet the offer left me cold and I must not be alone in this as both companies have slumping sales. In fact, Customer Experience (CX) turns the product development chart upside down. There is no lack of newness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Solution and benefits. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

One would imagine with so much influence and potential capital flying in the packed room, the atmosphere must have felt thicker than a frenzied shark tank. To learn more about all the companies, be sure to visit 500 Startups’ official demo day page. Honestly though, it was anything but. Their solution is ingenius in its design.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. Insider Pages.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos. Addressable advertisements are capable of being targeted to the individual household. YOu should check it out.

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