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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Advertising Media Mobile Buzznet 40

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)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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Platform Snapchat Startup Course 118

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Seed viral activity. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working.

Marketing 107

Marketing Invest SEM Startup 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

What you don’t expect is to feel out of control , or to always be fighting the many demands for your time. You expected the difficulty of finding funding, but you never expected it to go so fast into unanticipated expenses, inventory, support, and marketing. Getting to the next level of growth is a constant challenge.

Entrepreneur 122

Entrepreneur Startup Course Examples 122

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.

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

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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Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

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. Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). TechCrunch article.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

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)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

Snapchat 74

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

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. So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. How is the company funded and backed?

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

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.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Seed viral activity. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working.

Marketing 67

Marketing SEM Startup Blogging 67

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Current round: $90mm led by The Founders Fund, including Youniversity Ventures, Glynn Capital, Ulu Ventures, Jeremy Stoppleman, Ben Ling, +.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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? There is a huge demand from people, who have gone there to buy products. A year ago, we were around 3.5

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

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. I believe that the advertisers they started with were probably disappointed that the cost per customer acquisition was not the same as search. Broadcast isn't like that.

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Google Advertising Media Startup 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Seed viral activity. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working.

Marketing 99

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup SEM 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Seed viral activity. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working.

Marketing 95

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

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.

Startup 182

Startup Commerce Design Media 182

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Last week, Altadena-based AdventureLink (www.adventurelink.com) announced that it raised a Series A funding round, for the firm's adventure travel reservation network. The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund. People are demanding more and more experiential opportunities out of their leisure holidays.

Web 100

Web Altadena Sites Activity 100

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). billion for the site in 2006. According to predictions and what I see on the many sites I have visited, there are still positives and negatives to consider: YouTube is already gigantic, so the interest is there.

Hulu 84

Hulu Social Network Blogging Netflix 84

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. We can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings.

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

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)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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Startup Course Yahoo Funding 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

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)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

Snapchat 55

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. Seed viral activity. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working.

Marketing 90

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 90

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. What we've done, is we attract those writers to our site, and have a revenue model based on the content. That target market is huge, and includes sites like YouTube, you also have Revision3, and other sites doing short videos.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Njoku in April this year closed an $8m funding investment round from Tiger Global and another $2m from a Swedish firm, Kinnevik and still he says more is yet to come. Tell us about funding rounds you have had? We closed on the final round of funding earlier on this year with Swedish-based hedge fund, Kinnevik. Profitable?

Netflix 82

Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Print advertising is expensive, but social media is free. If you spend $50K on a website selling party supplies but you soon realize it's the sales of catering supplies you offer that have taken off, you will want to have a site that promotes your newfound focus. John is a veteran of over two decades in the advertising industry.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

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. Any funding yet? How does it work?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

My partner was in product management at Demand Media. 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. I’m a partner at the largest VC fund in Southern California. We deliver much higher CPMs”.

Startup 315

Startup Content Conference Media 315

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

We first rolled out furniture in a newer market – Washington DC, and we increased ARPU (average revenue per month, per customer) by > 300%, we lowered our CAC (this is because the number of people who came to our site and converted went up) and thus we decreased our payback period. That is how great businesses are built. Efficiency?

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

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. I’m willing to fund companies in the interim. We’re doing nothing.&# And I refused to say more. It was slow. It was hard to use. There was no engagement.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

As a former hedge fund guy, Roger immediately saw the value in helping companies better sift through the masses of data; often to gain better insights into financial information. Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly And from this simple accident came the most powerful driver on Twitter.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

My fund was an early investor in Overture. AdWords is on Google.com, AdSense is a distributed platform across many different Web sites where if youre a small publisher and you put AdSense on your Web site and someone clicks, you get part of the revenue and Google gets part of the revenue. Okay, thats AdSense. Were all connected.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization advertising effectiveness, content distribution, monetization. . Bootstrapping a Lean Startup.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. 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.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

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. Venture Capital Funding 7. I started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Designating antisocial geeks.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41