socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has hired a new executive to head up the firm's advertising sales, the firm disclosed Tuesday. Demand Media has appointed George Stewart as the company's Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for all of the company's sales channels. READ MORE>>

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

At the moment, Conolly heads the startups social media team in Egypt while Turdubaev looks after Russian countries and translation of the site. We have many people on the team who have been with us from day one – at all levels in the company. Where does someone who is starting a hairdressers advertise their business?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The traditional model for hiring permanent employees who can grow their career with your company just doesn’t work, and can jeopardize your business before it even gets traction. You need a faster and more flexible on-demand hiring strategy, based on the current gig-economy of remote freelancers, contract personnel, and specialists.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2016

Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango is planning a major push of its brand new video on demand service, FandangoNOW , with ads running on TV, online, mobile, outdoor, and in theaters. The company said its brand new, summer movie campaign will feature more than a dozen commercials, and Saturday Night Live star Kenan Thompson.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward. million site visits in October alone. Gumroad homepage.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 The Interactive Advertising Bureau defined a set of rich media units rooted in familiar ad sizes and called them Rising Stars. The company is privately held and has received no venture funding to date.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

Santa Monica-based eHow , the online advice and information site owned by Demand Media, is targeting mothers with a new channel, the company said today. eHow said it already is seeing around 14 million mothers visiting the site a month. The channel actually launched in May. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2009

The new site--driven by an application programming interface the firm has named the Factual API--allows developers to connect their data with data from others. Factual said its products are being used by such companies as Demand Media and its Livestrong.com site. It was acquired by Google with pre-IPO stock in 2003.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 9, 2013

Unlike digital advertising, the primary goal in enterprise software is to get someone else to sell your product. First, they set rules for who can sell what to whom – such as by vertical, company size of buyer, geographic region, by product, etc. In digital advertising, we have it backwards. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. which he sold to AOL.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

In the rush toward the daily deals space, it seems like there is at least one, new, daily deals site created every day. It's an incredibly crowded industry, which not only includes giants like Groupon and LivingSocial, but countless smaller sites, newspapers, and others all looking for a piece of the action. What is Deal Current?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Joey Flores to learn more about the service, plus hear more about the new on-demand service and the challenges it is trying to help musicians and labels deal with in the age of Internet streaming. What's the story behind the company? Joey Flores: We started the company three years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. MySpace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon faded.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. That's why we exist, and why we are a company, to help consumers figure out that fundamental question. How we do so, is we help consumers discover new products and shop for them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. In a larger public company, it’s all about making your quarterly numbers, versus investing in strategic growth alternatives that may not pay off until several quarters later.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Among one of the fastest growing industries--despite what has been a stagnant economy--is Internet advertising, which has continued to grow strongly over the past two years. For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? These are both either “remnant” or free ad types. TechCrunch article.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. One of those he mentioned was Hark (www.hark.com), an online site which allows users to find and share sound bites and audio clips from movies and elsewhere. How is the company funded and backed?

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site? We're now at the end of year 3 of the company. The company is going really well.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Brands took out advertisements espousing their “AOL Keyword.&#. Many of us argued at the time that the browsers would get more powerful and we bet our companies on that by not developing client applications. My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. Because over time users will demand open.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. Those companies are used to the precision and target-ablity of search. Advertising has to be unique and creative, and computers don't do that terribly well.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2013

If you missed out on the keynotes live we have all of them for you on demand. Scott shared a few secrets that any companies can adopt for their own purposes. Technorati’s netowrk represents 1,300+ influential sites and 129 million+ US uniques/month.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He calls it his “Tom Sawyer&# company. Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

Garrett was most recently a venture capitalist at Crosscut Ventures, who helped identify and fund ShoeDazzle--co-founded the company with Beal, a fashion industry insider who was introduced to Garrett by prolific Los Angeles angel investor Paige Craig. The two sat down with us to explain the idea behind the company.

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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 spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. Look at Viddy & SocialCast. But it wasn’t to be. So What is This Underbelly of Which You Speak?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2015

Unfortunately, many of these companies fail to properly monetize such non-paying users. Anyone, including well-healed, large companies, could offer state-of-the-art technical support for free. This is a risky, as many of your users will be initially introduced to your company via your free offering. Let''s face it.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

We’ve simplified our pricing, and API partners are now utilizing our technology in unique ways to fulfill a growing demand for entertainment imagery.”. Born is most notable for his work in founding sister-site, Audio Micro , an online repository for royalty free music and sound effects.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

If you're a big influencer, you might get paid by a brand, but every day, people are providing word-of-mouth advertising, posting about their favorite things. The second part of our app is Know It, which is a video on demand platform. They can then make money from that video-on-demand, and people can pay them to watch that content.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. And as a result we have bred a culture of companies that have been quite innovative on making money. company called Applied Semantics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. MySpace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon faded.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2013

You''ve seen the company''s work in the Superbowl, on television, and on the web, all for big brands--but you might not know it came out of the crowdsourcing efforts of Tongal (www.tongal.com). We caught up with James DeJulio , the company''s President and one of its co-founders, to hear about how the crowdsourced video site works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). But the word on the street is that very few, if any, of the video-only companies are making money. billion for the site in 2006. There are now more than 24 hours of video uploaded every minute to the site.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. We can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings. How is the company funded?

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