socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Right now, when people are communicating using Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and others, those businesses are principally using display advertising and sponsored listings to monetize those users. Jordan Glazier: For example, say you have a friend coming to San Diego, and they ask you where they should stay. What does that look like?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. We also talked about why Jon decided to leave Google to become an EIR at a VC firm (Polaris) – minute 33. It is absolutely MVP of advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. ” Here are some examples: 1. This industry is so mature now that the cat-and-mouse game between companies and Google has gotten sophisticated.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Among one of the fastest growing industries--despite what has been a stagnant economy--is Internet advertising, which has continued to grow strongly over the past two years. For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and Instagram leads as the top social media app for teens. Communication and writing skills are required. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd. Use strong communication and writing skills. In additional to strong journalistic writing and storytelling, you need business acumen, strategic thinking and planning, and the ability to do the right research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and the fading MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Communication and writing skills are required. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. We learned that Groupon was taking their advertisers. In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software. It will become an advertising product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and the fading MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Communication and writing skills are required. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

On myfab5, people rank their favorite places instead of giving them star ratings and write bite-sized reviews instead of writing long reviews. When talking to review site users, we found the top two reasons people don’t write reviews is because it takes too long and it is confusing.

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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. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. John Wanamaker.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Communication and writing skills are required. Your Twitter YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Perfect example; ShoeBoxed.com. On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table. A great example of a website displaying amazing social proof with client results is Killian’s Workshop for how to book commercials. Pay Per Click advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

I’ve talked about how Twitter is a new form of RSS (curated RSS), it’s a a new form of IM / SMS , it’s a place where business is conducted and it’s a place where advertising will drive leads due to the link sharing nature of Twitter. Brad googled him on his Iphone. before having 300k followers!).

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

” I’m not a morning person; in fact, it’s 2pm as I’m writing this and I’m still in sweat pants, but for this, I’ll gladly be there. There’s a strong need to customize UI and car companies are realizing their $700 navigation systems just aren’t going to sell as well as a free app from Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” For example, look at the following graph. The example chart is not actually atypical. ” Quick examples: 1.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also allow the users to have a custom URL, for example, resumebucket.com/joshstomel. For example, they spend a lot of time reading resumes, and want to have the latest updated version, and candidates often don't have them with them. Josh Stomel: How we make money right now is advertising revenue.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer.

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Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. Increase the production of your content.It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”.The There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.)

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Obviously there are other tech in the pipeline such as wearable technology and Google Glass that will continue to evolve what mobile means. What advice would you give to employers to advertise their company to job seekers? Meaning, write very good job descriptions, but that doesn’t mean you need to write long ones.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. Will a third-party pay (advertisers, data companies)? Market Size. Efficiency?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google. Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. How Quigo Went Head-to-Head With Google. Thank you, John.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”. Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements. Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass. Morgan Intrator – Yoursigma, combining technology with classroom learning.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

We're also looking at technology in the retail sector, or which touch the retail supply chain--things like out of home advertising, software to optimize the retail supply chain, and other related areas because we know the retail sector so well. We'll even write a half a million check. That as unhealthy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A One example is driving, which has an actual physiological reason it makes you creative. The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. What exactly is visualization?

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

This includes support for Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and over a dozen additional services. A Helpful Login Class Some code examples are provided by JanRain Engage. A Very Simple Example Ive set up a site where you can try out the Twitter login. Is this error related to what Im supposed to write?

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Software Review PHP Class Startup 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

This also would give the client the upper hand in discussions with advertisers, image providers, URL shorteners, etc. And aside from having great market power (the main reason for Twitter to own the client and the customer) advertising is one of the primary reasons that I believe Twitter needs to own the client applications.

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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 as an example of why I shouldn’t be investing in the Twitter ecosystem any longer. Here’s some examples you can infer from the social data: @SnoopDogg has more Twitter fans in Texas than he has in New York. So with DataSift I’m doubling down.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. For example, Excel was able to read files from Lotus, and was able to save the file without losing any information. Communicating with the developers who write code. Defensibility in Software.

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Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. Enter Google. So it is unsurprising to see companies like Sony, Logitech & Intel partner with Google. It will involve 3d (see Nintendo’s moves , for example).

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