Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 124

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. Matt Cooper: What we're really trying to do, is reshape the advertising space. All of digital advertising today uses Flash as a foundation technology.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood HTML Software Review Advertising 100

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow. But, I think where we have a long term advantage is, the 600,000 advertise relationships and a strong presence with consumers. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. Louis and Atlanta.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow. But, I think where we have a long term advantage is, the 600,000 advertise relationships and a strong presence with consumers. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. Louis and Atlanta.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2015

Ross Weber: ClickTripz is an advertising platform for travel advertisers. What''s different about your platform that more general advertising platforms? I decided--why stop fighting this, because this type of advertising just works, and figure out how to do it a little better in the past. What is ClickTripz? READ MORE>>.

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Advertising Startup Software Review Platform 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

Platform 82

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Rufus Labs is one of a number of hardware startups which have started to proliferate in the community, due to low cost hardware, 3D printing, and crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Plus, they don't collect data, and use really old, limited software. I actually spent a decade working in advertising and marketing.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 286

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Startup 107

Startup Technical Review Case Study Software Review 107

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2012

Over the past few months Boston Startup School and it’s founders have reviewed hundreds of applications for their first class all while working very hard to get to know each and every candidate. .” -says Shaun Johnson, Co-Founder and COO of Boston Startup School. Something a “corporate” job would not do.) great jobs.

Education 86

Education Startup Software Review Technical Review 86

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. It broke the hegemony that the carriers had over software on mobile phones and the industry will forever be changed (for the better) for this. What does it do?

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2016

Then Google announced its intent to ban payday and title lenders from advertising in search results. It’s also due to the relative lack of technological expertise in the industry, which has fairly low margins and not a lot to invest in innovation.

Help 40

Help Technical Review Custom Customer 40

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

Alex Nocifera: We help the enterprise, large brands, working with brands like US Cellular, Panera Bread, Square, Uber, and help them generate demand for their products and services in a local, acute manner. Where are you now as a company, understanding that lots of things have changed due to this pandemic? What is Field Day?

Marketing 113

Marketing Los Angeles Zag Startup 113

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

Today, with the help of the aptly named JOBS act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act) and companies like SeedInvest , it has never been easier for companies to gain exposure and enter the investment solicitation process. What companies like SeedInvest and its peers are doing to help connect investors to startups. Taking a Step Back.

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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. Unpaid Search – Never pay a consultant to help you achieve a higher search ranking. John Wanamaker. They are paid nothing for simply displaying the ad.

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Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. It’s your job to help them get oriented with the right amount of information so that when you come together you can focus on making good decisions or at least helping you discuss difficult topics rather than spending all of your time informing them. Mentorship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2016

Most social entrepreneurs don’t like to talk about making money, but often they still ask for help finding investors. federal income tax (Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code). This fact makes finding money for staffing, advertising, and manufacturing very difficult. Advertising is expensive.

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Entrepreneur Software Review Organization Advertising 53

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

It does the work for them, and uses the data to make intelligent recommendations specifically for that person's advertiser. You've hit on a nugget here--which is this tool helps reduce publisher reliance on an ad network. I had to build my own tools to manage my profile, so I got into software. I got a wakeup call.

Advertising 127

Advertising Startup Sales Tool 127

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

It’s established itself as a leading source of organic sales referrals and we find creative ways for brands to help keep it that way while seeing incredible results as far as significantly increased site visits, sales and brand awareness.

Sales 101

Sales Technical Review Marketing Technology 101

InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

However, his first-hand knowledge of how to write, test and commercialize code facilitated his ability to lead Microsoft from startup to world dominance. Richard leveraged the fact that record companies were Student’s biggest advertisers to subsequently launch a record store. No one ever accused Mr. Gates of being a master programmer.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Education Entrepreneur 279

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

On the business side, I am adapting here his seven success principles, too often overlooked by people who leap before they look: Find a niche to help real people. Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems.

Technical Review 99

Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. 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.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. We're also looking, at the same time, at infrastructure--infrastructure software, which advertising agencies or marketers would use. What's your prior experience and how'd you get into this? READ MORE>>

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Southern California Media Venture Capital Invest 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. We're also looking, at the same time, at infrastructure--infrastructure software, which advertising agencies or marketers would use. What's your prior experience and how'd you get into this? READ MORE>>

Capital 100

Capital Southern California Media Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

in a venture round for the firm's software recommendation startup. Darrius Thompson: We came from a company called DivX, where we had built a business primarily around consumer software. We got really good at figuring out how to get wide distribution for our software, and how to monetize that software in unique ways.

Software Review 100

Software Review Software Startup Examples 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

And to give credit where it’s due (in addition to the content that Fred producers) a lot of the discussion works well because of the Disqus commenting platform. Only later did I realize that this was part of Dharmesh Shah’s larger blog and that the software was based on the popular “stack overflow&# software.

Blogging 301

Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

This is how you make money from advertising – someone else runs ads on your site or your blog, and you get paid for everyone who clicks on the ad. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. Pay per click (PPC). You can use it for your business.

SEM 95

SEM Search Engine Optimization Blogging PPC 95

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2011

Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap. Review my previous article on this challenge – “ Ten Keys to a Killer Name For Your Company.” For these prices, you should consider an intermediary like Moniker.com or Escrow.com - for a $250 to $500 fee - to help ensure that sellers truly transfer title to the address.

Company 81

Company Companies Pricing Web 81

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

We are now harnessing the ‘social’ aspect of the system where businesses and consumers begin to contribute to the data by adding or updating products listings as well as rate and review products.”. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well. We’re also looking at how we could extend our platform into other areas.

Blogging 219

Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

This is how you make money from advertising – someone else runs ads on your site or your blog, and you get paid for everyone who clicks on the ad. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. Pay per click (PPC). You can use it for your business.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur SEM Search Engine Optimization Blogging 89

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. Let’s consider the following two software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

We are now harnessing the ‘social’ aspect of the system where businesses and consumers begin to contribute to the data by adding or updating products listings as well as rate and review products.”. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well. We’re also looking at how we could extend our platform into other areas.

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. As a consultant for Comcast and co-founder of G4 Media, Scot helped bring the world of video games to television in 2002. It generates revenues through Subscription, Virtual Currency and Advertising. Make sure to tune in! Sponsored giveaways and contests.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin).

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more. Code Monkey Hackathon song (VIDEO ABOVE). Due to overwhelming support of everyone asking “When’s the next SBF!” Examiner: Silicon Beach Fest Showcases Innovation. Kindling’s: L.A.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67