Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Social-media advertising. Social-media advertising relies on popular social media sites (such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) to generate leads through pay-per-click ads and tweets on sites that target customers in specific demographics. Display advertising. Email marketing.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

marketing, and not enough of the traditional, software-and-algorithm intensive startups you'd expect to see in Silicon Valley. We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling.

Southern California 66

Southern California Software Artificial Inteligence Company 66

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Our software just has to be on a user's device, and we have lots of ways to get there.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current. We learned that Groupon was taking their advertisers. We had our contest software, ArtisticHub, driving some revenue.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Content providers found the same thing when many found that they could charge a subscription fee instead of relying just upon advertising. Email readers, continue here…] So, the conclusion is that most every business can take advantage of continuing, recurring revenues from its customer base. Paying for content.

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Outsource Development Software Review Content Netflix 156

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Personalized card-linked offers Edo has raised $15million, ready to set a new trend in the payments and advertising sector. Ed Braswell, CEO, edo says this is necessary as, “Payments and advertising are colliding; to stay competitive firms are searching for solutions to drive customer acquisition, loyalty and return on marketing investment.”.

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Advertising Media Networking Capital 64

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

We are all victims of our past successes and thus, as an early-stage venture capitalist at Rincon Venture Partners , I constantly must remind myself that just because something was effective in a bygone era, doesn’t mean it will be so today, such as: CPA – After the dot bomb crash, online advertisers were hurting.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). They used Gmail and Gsuite for email and calendar.

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Startup Canoga Park Email Google 113

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I had requests from friends to put them on an email, or give them a calendar reminder when a band was playing, and one thing led to another, and I started the site. It's really been word of mouth, really viral, because we've never advertised. First, there is advertisement revenue, which is happening right now.

Social Media 241

Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Google’s market capitalization is in the stratosphere for a reason – keyword search advertising is highly effective. John Wanamaker.

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Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). How did you get into VC? (9:30

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2011

New magazines were rushed to market, thick with advertisements for computer systems and components at bargain prices. Email readers, continue here.] No employee of our customer company could do this because no employee knew our software and its requirements for database setup, multi-user security and more.

Pricing 184

Pricing Networking IBM IBM 184

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. The concept behind Bccthis is sending a private message within a group email and group message.

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Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Advertisers. Email us at info@socaltech.com. Southern California's high tech news and companies. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Email us at info@socaltech.com. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Advertisers. Tags: socaltech advertising sponsor. Technology.

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SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon Technology Council 100

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. On top of that, we allow users to comment and read other comments, and email other users within the system. What's the business model behind the site--it looks like this is advertising driven? It's pretty much been all organic.

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PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Dinesh Ravishankar: We were doing software development for various companies in Southern California, out of my condo in West LA. With the advances in open source telecom software--we use Asterisk, OpenSIPS, and others software--we're able to emulate legacy hardware which would normally cost you $10M.

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West Los Angeles Custom Customer Tool 176

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Social-media advertising. Social-media advertising relies on popular social media sites (such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) to generate leads through pay-per-click ads and tweets on sites that target customers in specific demographics. Display advertising. Email marketing.

Social Media 55

Social Media SEM Startup Advertising 55

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. And now they want to revolutionize email.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

To help it along, we developed some software which makes it easy to create a mobile experience, which corresponds to a QR code you can place on any, real world object. The objects we are focused on are out-of-home advertising. That's the big opportunity for us, out of home advertising, to make it engaging, and ultimately, measurable.

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Startup West Hollywood Metrics Entertainment 220

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Social-media advertising. Social-media advertising relies on popular social media sites (such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) to generate leads through pay-per-click ads and tweets on sites that target customers in specific demographics. Display advertising. Email marketing.

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Startup Social Media SEM Advertising 99

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? Los Angeles-based Postie (postie.com), backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, is applying machine learning and other techniques to direct mail. I understand both of you came out of Science Inc, the startup studio/incubator?

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CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

However Gmail is only private email conversations. Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. They'll reply to my emails in half an hour, and give us great feedback on what we're doing. How did you and Charlotte get into software?

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Social-media advertising. Social-media advertising relies on popular social media sites (such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) to generate leads through pay-per-click ads and tweets on sites that target customers in specific demographics. Display advertising. Email marketing.

Custom 60

Custom Customer Marketing Social Media 60

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

From email addresses and demographics to Likes, brand affinitiesand interests, it gives marketersthe insights they need to address consumers as individuals with relevant, meaningful messages that drive response. Siegal added,“Social data holds the key. Platform For Speed & Scalability. Top Features.

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Platform Help Custom Customer 82

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. He wanted Quigo to be in the business of letting advertisers buy directly into the system.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, we'll go to the University, and say hey, Panera Bread has an offer, which you can also add to an email and can go out to your student base. We're taking the oldest form of advertising, the human-to-human story telling, and we're injecting it with data, and AI, and predictive analytics, and all these things.

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Marketing Los Angeles Zag Startup 113

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Advertise Here. Advertise Here. Feel free to directly email us at tips@techcrunch.com. Software Engineer, Back End – Games.com Games.com Sr. « previous story Fashion-Focused Kaleidoscope App Readies Personalized Shopping & Recommendations. Have a Tip, Pitch or Guest Column? Guest Column. 2011 Holiday.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Tips 77

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

We've had close to 2 million tasks people have put into there in the last four months, and all this without any PR or advertising, completely organic. One of the most popular features of the application is the delegation feature, which with one tap allows them to email a grocery list to their husband to pick up.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M Jacobo Lumbreras: Kelly was a previous investor in a company I was involved in before, in the enterprise software area.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Companies purchased keywords, placed ads and sent emails in an attempt to entice users to complete a lead form. As with many emerging markets, the Facebook advertising ecosystem is relatively inefficient. Campus Explorer earns most of its revenue through lead-generation. They then sold the leads for more than it cost to generate them.

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Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Culver City-based Lootsie (www.lootsie.com) has createe a product which ties together those loyalty reward programs with the advertising and marketing efforts of brands, to help both those mobile developers and marketers. We work with a lot of brands who have tried advertising on mobile, but wanted a better solution than what's out there now.

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Mobile Culver City Startup Examples 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Sergey’s diverse experience as an entrepreneur, technology consultant and software executive qualifies him to lead amSTATZ’s technology development. For the fitness professional: A simple software solution that streamlines their business operations and keeps clients engaged. opportunities for every software engineer in the field.

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Social Network Networking Training Summary 92