Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. After Tanz had sold his pre-Instagram photo-sharing app called MoJungle, he was intrigued with notion of bringing advertising to photos, and had no idea if it was even possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required. Develop viral content. That’s a double death wish.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2011

If your B2B contacts are frequenting other non-competitive local businesses, LBS data could point you to more lucrative business partnerships. Sponsorships and advertising. If your B2B contacts check-in regularly at certain types of locations (entertainment venues, stores, etc.) See who checks into your competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Many companies try to recover with more advertising and rebranding, and discover that these strategies don’t work well in today’s market. Now that consumers judge products based on reviews and peer recommendations, rather than advertising, quality if more critical than ever before. Use autonomous teams, rather than functional silos.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2012

I began our discussion by asking Tal about his use of social media to blunt Intuit’s threatening suggestion that Mint was participating in false advertising regarding the manner in which they were counting “users.” What’s Intuit Afraid Of? Businesses do this all the time and we appreciate their reply.”

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

In fact, for the past 27-years, he has specialized in bringing exotic travel destinations to those of us who are healthy and active but whose competitive sporting days are long behind us. Then we started advertising and getting media attention. Also, advertising in print media just doesn''t have the ROI that it once did.

Entrepreneur 187

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler, a video engagement platform for web and mobile publishers has launched new features and the next generation of its video engagement platform in a move that will power engagement for sports, entertainment and news publishers a like. Customized content. Watch video metrics, track performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required. Develop viral content. That’s a double death wish.

Marketing 67

Marketing SEM Startup Blogging 67

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

According to Urban Dictionary , hype is “a clever marketing strategy where a product is advertised as the thing everyone must have, to the point where people begin to feel they need to consume it.”

Startup 97

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required. Develop viral content. That’s a double death wish.

Marketing 99

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup SEM 99

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

The panel of experts not only judged the competition but also gave the companies feedback after their pitch. They allow advertisers to combine the branding power of video with the reach and immediacy of the standard banner ad marketplace. BTW, if there was an award for most entertaining pitch, Addroid would win it hands down!

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. This is my third company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required. Develop viral content. That’s a double death wish.

Marketing 95

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Osmosis marketing is the hot new term for word-of-mouth advertising. Rewards include becoming the “mayor” of an entertainment location via FourSquare , to winning badges via a Badgeville campaign. As entrepreneurs and business people, it behooves us all to understand and adopt changes which can improve our competitiveness and impact.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. Are the tools really there now for you to be able to do that?

Media 150

Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required. Develop viral content. That’s a double death wish.

Marketing 90

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 90

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Our combined experience working in film education and inside the traditional and digital entertainment industry gives us unique insight into building an authentic “film school like” education on the web. Any competition in LA? That’s a complete and powerful experience which has also helped us to grow quickly.

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Web USC Course Guide 93

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. We caught up with co-founder Clark Landry to chat about his new startup, which he co-founded with Michael Ritter.

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Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

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. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Founded in 2007.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

We have been based in LA for around 45 years and we have deep roots in entertainment and media. On the legal side, my practice in North California and we have an advertising and media group in New York City. Commerce to me, involves a lot of advertising spend. Traditional advertisement isn’t as popular anymore.

Los Angeles 84

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements. Grant Delgatty – URB-E , the world’s smallest foldable electric vehicle. Big ups to the Twitch.TV guys for making it happen!

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

It should be the next generation content/ entertainment portal that leverages millions of user profiles to more accurately provide data to advertisers on what is appealing to specific demographics. I want Facebook to legitimately have competition, so we all benefit as consumers. But that risk taking mentality seems long gone.

Development Team Review 76

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

MW: At my previous company, I was running big online advertising campaigns and delivering – in this case – leads to clients. But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. Where did the idea come about in the first place?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Endeavor's partners, advertisers, and publishers will reap the rewards of the company's long-standing industry relationships. The Sponsors.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Endeavor's partners, advertisers, and publishers will reap the rewards of the company's long-standing industry relationships. The Sponsors.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. This world of local meets retail meets digital advertising portends to technology disruption and with it VC opportunities. This never existed a decade ago.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. Essentially, we're getting those SMBs a more affordable option, so they can be just as competitive as the big brands. What's your background? That reflects heavily in our hiring.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

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. Tapping into a niche community is part of Quirktastic Media’s competitive advantage.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization advertising effectiveness, content distribution, monetization. . Collaboration Over Competition: Competitors as Business Partners. Entrepreneurism / Monetization competition, ecommerce, small business. . Unger, John T.

Guide 69

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Myspace is a social entertainment network that suggests new musical acts to you and keeps you updated with new releases of your favourite musical acts. We also raised fund for CPC advertising, which doubled sign-ups. At LAGbook, we rake in revenue through online advertising. A Social Discovery Network.

Social Network 100

Social Network Networking Advertising Startup 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

Since we have released our product, and are now looking to acquire new users, this has proven to be extremely valuable for getting a high return from our advertising expenditures. Do you think your real competition will come from new sites or existing ones like PredictIt ? Greathouse: You guys could have worked on a variety of ideas.

Startup 100

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Jonah believes that the media business is still mostly stuck in the traditional world where too many ad dollars and too much content is still produced in a traditional way but he thinks the next few years will change that dramatically as most competition switched to social, mobile & digital. I asked Jonah about this. “I

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