socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together. So, we took that contest and crowdsourcing platform, and started ArtisticHub. What's the story behind Deal Current?

Platform 263

Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine said that the companies--who have all gone through the 90 day mentorship process at StartEngine--include the BedAbroad (international student housing marketplace); CARBON 38 (online luxury fitness destination for women; Smilu (cross-platform, multiplayer video games); WhereMyDogsAt (mobile social networking for dog owners); Ember (demand (..)

Santa Monica 178

Santa Monica Startup Activision Commerce 178

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

Indi is focused on powering individual commerce. In essence, we want to give every individual their own, e-commerce store. Our team has a passion for e-commerce, and we also have athletes and others on our team. We run our day-to-day business with professional athletes and folks out of the e-commerce industry.

Help 113

Help Commerce Platform Orange County 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2016

According to Rubicon, it has named Tom Kershaw--most recently Director of Product Management for Google Ads and Commerce, to the position, where he will be responsible for product development, platform strategy, product design, prioritization, and go-to-market planning, as well as oversight of the company's engineering capabilities.

Google 138

Google Product Commerce Los Angeles 138

InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks. As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS.

Customer 226

Customer Custom Entrepreneur Advertising 226

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

A lot of those brands, on the e-commerce side, are becoming more data driven. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. How we do hat, is we've built an analytics platform, Daasity, for data-as-a-service.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It means wasted advertising spend and lost goodwill. Do you participate in professional development workshops, or perhaps enjoy problem-solving puzzles in your downtime? A solid LLM integration can transform the way they interact with your platform. This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it!

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence TechEmpower Tips 295

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. We had an advanced application development and innovation team.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call technology provider to the affiliate marketing industry, has inked a partnership with Pepperjam Network , an online performance marketing firm owned by GSI Commerce. RingRevenue develops pay-per-call technology, which can track the source of phone calls to merchants.

Santa Barbara 167

Santa Barbara Commerce Platform Marketing 167

InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks. <JG <JG change the link in first sentence to the infoChachkie post> As noted in YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers.

Customer 133

Customer Custom Entrepreneur Advertising 133

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly. I like that.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. How big is YP.com?

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. We don’t hear about the remaining three million apps that are mostly free, and garnering only trivial revenue through advertising.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. How big is YP?

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. We build on those audiences, and find others that look alike.

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2011

5) Twitter’s recent $40M acquisition of TweetDeck is an interesting development. When a platform evolves, at some point the company that built the platform starts to slow down. 1) What is your primary goal in the next six months – bring on more Advertisers, top employees, celebrities, agency partners? – all of the above?

Social Media 252

Social Media Platform Media Networking 252

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

My previous company did production runs for small clothing lines, promos, and trade show giveaways, and one of the things we realized it's such a volume industry, and the technology of screen printing has been around for 10,000 years, developed by the Egyptians and the Chinese. has been a reliance on advertising revenue.

Startup 174

Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Top CEO’s, entrepreneurs, technology gurus, venture capitalists and executives will be looking at the tech ecosystem from different perspectives, including e-commerce, enterprise software, digital media and consumer technologies.” That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. WOW, right? has accomplished. The ideation behind Coincident.TV Coincident.TV

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Having done lots of those, I realized that there was a really great opportunity, from the standpoint of harnessing the higher quality in streaming platforms. We had used partners like Ustream and Livestream for our streaming platforms, and they're fantastic, both from the insights and capabilities for user generated streaming.

Paramount 187

Paramount Entertainment Hollywood Content 187

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Every business needs to develop a revenue model even before a product. As an experienced business advisor, here is my current summary, with some of the pros and cons or special considerations for each: Product is free, revenue is from advertisers. The challenge is to get the first million customers, before advertisers will sign up.

Pricing 66

Pricing Customer Custom Advertising 66

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

Advertisers upload their 30 second ads and each time a user watches the ad, they receive $.50. This biotech company developed Xplore-PATHO as a service to test samples for the presence of pathogens – everything from bacteria and DNA virus to parasites and fungus – in a single test. Targeted mobile advertising.

Startup 80

Startup Mentor Platform Help 80

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. The hardest part, is if you want a platform which is a broad platform, and not just about one topic or genre, about all kinds of things.

Startup 195

Startup Platform Sites Java 195

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

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. Competes with HauteLook , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , Billion Dollar Babes , ideeli , Glam List. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Go Boulder!

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Back then were were looking for the same things users look for today – the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

They can choose to go to a dinner that is advertised, and if they've previously expressed interest in a person, we let them know if that person is going. It's born out of trying to address the problems that have developed in the modern dating industry over time. It was a mixture of mobile and device-centric and Internet development.

San Diego 264

San Diego Hollywood Mobile eHarmony 264

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Ad/Banner blindness, a talent which we’ve developed rather well as a society: The ability to subconsciously block out commercials WHILE physically watching. Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. ” THE SALES PLATFORM. My personal belief?

Entertainment 98

Entertainment Advertising Startup Media 98

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators. Shippo is changing the game for e-commerce shipping. They’re going to be huge for private e-commerce retailers. Their solution is ingenius in its design. Look out for this company.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The platform connects foodies to restaurants for a win-win situation for both parties. The platform uses an iPhone app and website to help users make decisions quickly and confidently while also helping them share their valuable restaurant experiences with others. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review.

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform. Scott will share data and results from both ChaCha and other industry sources that will highlight the compelling opportunity that brand advertisers now have in the mobile arena. Should brands offer e-commerce through apps? Presenter: Scott A.

Mobile 40

Mobile Media Case Study Advertising 40

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. What inspired you?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

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. Leverage a feedback platform like Get Satisfaction or UserVoice. Not a chance. For Meebo 1.3%

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2016

Then Google announced its intent to ban payday and title lenders from advertising in search results. In the developing world, digital currencies like M-PESA improve local trade, creating more robust economies. Finally, two of the largest corporate pawnbrokers, Cash America and First Cash , announced plans to merge.

Help 40

Help Technical Review Customer Custom 40

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Bootstrapping development, team management. . Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Bootstrapping development, Startup, Website content. . Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. . Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice. The constrai.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69