Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Check Craigslist first, since most new ventures don’t have the money for executive search firms and the major job listing sites. Explore investor websites and conferences. Most Angel groups and VCs advertise the startups they have recently funded, with pointers to startup websites, sometimes including open positions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

Check Craigslist first, since most new ventures don’t have the money for executive search firms and the major job listing sites. Explore investor websites and conferences. Most Angel groups and VCs advertise the startups they have recently funded, with pointers to startup websites, sometimes including open positions.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Of the ones I have been to recently, the Nantucket Conference has been my favorite. It's a great talk. It's a great talk.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

Edward Park: When we first launched, we were a business to consumer service site. The other thing, is right now, as your volumes scale, your commission structure actually goes down on those sites. Then, for the TechCrunch conference last year, they needed some T-shirts made. has been a reliance on advertising revenue.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 20, 2010

So, when Ion followed up with me, I suggested the three of us record a podcast sometime -- which we were able to do yesterday, via Skype conference call. Other art sites are loaded up with all kinds of clutter. I thought there must be an interesting story here, and I was right -- with both a Minnesota and Wisconsin connection.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2015

Advertising your new business is the best way to attract potential clients. You can spread the word by attending conventions and conferences relating to your field of business. Social sites are a great way to advertise your business. You also need to have a business website or optimize your current site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Broadcast sponsorships and advertising. then you may want to consider potential sponsorships or advertising opportunities with that business or venue. Whether it’s a local tweet-up or a major conference, this knowledge could be useful to help you plan what events you should sponsor or where you should set up your next booth.

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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? That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

It starts in a crowded room at a conference or networking event. We know that their model works for a certain type of content but we believe we can build higher value sites where we can sell premium advertising and target niche audiences. The life of an entrepreneur is filled with 20 second opportunities. Most are squandered.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. How did you end up starting the site? Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. Out of over every ten people who see the site, one or two are really gravitate or are attached to it.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Their goal is to get you to appear in person at city roadshows that they run or to come to their annual Dreamforce conference. If you spent time at a site you might not be aware but they’ve possibly dropped a cookie on your computer and use pixel tracking to follow you around the web.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

The largest YouTube for business conference is coming up this week, Vid Con. They jumped on YouTube advertising taking advantage of the lower cost per click compared to traditional Google Adwords. 7 – The line between art and marketing/advertising is now very blurry. If we apply that.01% That’s the power of video.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Instead of doing guest posts on TechCrunch or speaking at startup conferences, Tracy became a regular contributor on wedding and women’s lifestyle blogs. Second, she sells advertising, which given her tight demographic and the big spending that comes when one is planning a wedding she can monetize really well.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I've been President of my marketing, branding, creative and advertising firm for, yikes, 30 years. I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. AlwaysOn has some of the best conferences I've ever been to.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based Tibesti (www.tibesti.com) is launching its new social shopping site this morning. We do no advertising on that part of the site, and make sure it is fair and balanced. I was doing a variety of things, and looking for recommendations on products, and trying to find a site to do that.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Building relationships, partnering with social media experts on events (SBTwestival and 140 Conference Meetup), learning at events, building a following, testing any and all formats/venues, integrating social media into our radio show. I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. Love the minis!

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

It’s the one feature that stuck with me the most from the F8 conference this past September. They understand that this user type will freely grant Facebook access to share their online activity, whether it is reading the news, listening to a song, or visiting some random site that really has no business engaging with your “friends”.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. We also host video-conferences with students who want to learn specific topics around web video. When was it launched and where?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

From local Los Angeles tech events to worldwide conferences and expos. At the conference, we will explore how companies are using these technologies today, and should be using them tomorrow, for significant bottom line impact in areas like marketing, corporate information management, publishing, customer service, and personal productivity.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Video chat is also integrated into our service, and you can invite anyone across any network into a video chatroom, or multiple users into a room for a conference. What's the business model behind the site? We're advertising supported, what a lot call a premium/freemium service. They all now come with cameras.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

But considering the huge number of collaborative efforts, contacts, and great run-ins we experienced at this year’s little black sheep of a tech conference, in Austin, TX; we couldn’t possibly leave all the laundry out to dry. James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

It is that time of year again, when the digital and tech world looked up from their busy workload just long enough to make sure that they are “represented” with a kickass submission for a panel or two at the most prestigious conference all year, SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive Festival).

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

JanRain Engage provides a convenient way to enable social logins on a site via a single API. Implementing JanRain Engage on your site is a lot less work than implementing each login provider one by one. Of course, youll need to use a social login to get into the site. yoursite" will be replaced with the name of your site.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

and also to local advertisements. Of course, you should monitor social media such as Twitter, the social news sites, Facebook, etc. The Startonomics conference at UCLA Anderson business school, hosted by DealMaker Media, was a great event for the talks as well as the networking. Who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles?

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Advertise Locally on WSJ.com. Advertise Locally. Conferences. Sept Real Estate Auctions. Commercial Search.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry. John Busher, Harry Balls – a humorous site offering reviews and information about mobile apps, primarily indie games. Simon Khalaf, Flurry – learn why the leader in mobile analytics decided to produce a thought leadership conference.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was attending a major industry conference in Barcelona at the height of the WAP excitement. I was on stage in front of several hundreds of conference attendees. It required content sites to develop totally new content. Apple has sent out signals such as that they might like to own location-based mobile advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Because we include links in our Tweets, Twitter has become one of the most powerful sources on the Internet for driving traffic to websites, blogs and news sites. as an example of why I shouldn’t be investing in the Twitter ecosystem any longer.

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