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Ted Dhanik | Engage:BDR, LA Tech & the Marketing Scene

Tech Zulu Event

As the demands and supplies grew for advertising, we built a stable capital to create Engage:BDR. We also license our ad serving technology to publishers, advertisers, and other ad networks. In addition to that, we are advertisers as well and we own about ten consumer brands to leverage our reach to monetize our inventory better.

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Silicon Beach at USC 2013 | Entrepreneurial Inspiration

Tech Zulu Event

The second annual USC Silicon Beach event, hosted by the four professional schools at USC, featured a pitch competition and a conference filled with informational panels and interviews. Startup Pitch Competition. I tried to treat it as a learning experience and refined my pitch for this competition.”.

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10 Tests of Your Modern Entrepreneur Lingo Savvy

Startup Professionals Musings

As opposed to a startup incubator, which typically deals with startups barely hatched, an accelerator focuses on a later stage startup, with an existing product and proven business model, looking for rapid growth. Osmosis marketing is the hot new term for word-of-mouth advertising. Startup accelerator. Social mobile web.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? Will a third-party pay (advertisers, data companies)? Competition. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. Efficiency? But you should.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

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. Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization advertising effectiveness, content distribution, monetization. . Collaboration Over Competition: Competitors as Business Partners. Build Something, Build Anything.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Incubation 3. I started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects.

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