Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

While the media industry is driven by a combination of subscriptions and advertising – it’s clear that the latter plays a unique role in media. So my strategy was to focus on technology heavy companies who could bring measurability and performance to inefficient parts of the digital media landscape.

Mobile 329

Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue. On the other side, we had about one third of our investments in early stage, technology driven companies. I got that up and running, got a seed financing done, and got the technology built.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

As Wired magazine pointed out in a January 2013 article , "It’s a Hail Mary pass for a company that held 44.5 In the course of dominating their initial direct response market, a number of enterprise-level advertisers began using Invoca''s unique marketing platform in ways the company had not foreseen. However, after the Internet 1.0

Technical Support 250

Technical Support Marketing Advertising SaaS 250

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” The technology is a work in progress that continues to evolve.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He was about to be featured in a major US news magazine as one of their “hot&# picks. Press doesn’t mean anything other than free advertising. I’ll close this story down with the one I started – the entrepreneur who called me to tell me he was about to be profiled in a major news magazine.

Venture Capital 291

Venture Capital Press News Startup 291

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. We also mail checks to the advertisers every day, to make sure people get paid. You see lots of them selling small business advertising, neighborhood magazines, and the like.

Platform 263

Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

They’re the “cost conscious” segment and perhaps overlapping with the “technology laggard” segment. Magazines – Magazines make their money through a combination of subscription or purchase revenue vs. ad revenue. And so on. A customer is not a customer. Each mag has a different mix.

Netflix 287

Netflix Customer Custom Pricing 287

InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. As Clay Christensen aptly points out in The Innovator’s Dilemma, a large company’s defense of its legacy clouds its ability to appropriately assess the potential impact of disruptive technologies. Entrepreneurs are misfits.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Education Entrepreneur 279

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

We’ve simplified our pricing, and API partners are now utilizing our technology in unique ways to fulfill a growing demand for entertainment imagery.”. Early adopters include People Magazine, US Weekly, Tribune, and others.

Press 69

Press Entertainment Pricing Blogging 69

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We're a business that has both advertising revenues and subscription, a blend of both. You also bought a surfing magazine at one point, didn't you? Jonno Wells: A couple of years back, we bought Water magazine. We had a though to market that directly, but it was just as the economy for advertising in print took a big hit.

Web 140

Web Content Mobile Sites 140

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

What we specialize in, is the way we deliver this content in a seamless way, in high quality, with the latest technology available. Inside that solution, we have technologies like artificial intelligence, data analytics ,and security for streaming machines, and so forth. By doing that, we are a turnkey business-in-a box.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2011

Our daily lives are filled with advertisements of the latest and greatest technologies offering to “change the way we live.” Today with such a low entry point, (thanks to the success of the Internet,) these technologies are coming in at a rapid pace. QR codes and Augmented Reality. TechZulu iPhone App QR Code. Iron Man 2.

Advertising 87

Advertising Content Template Technology 87

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

Right now, we have this incredible power publishing tool, which allows girls to publish their own stylebooks and digital magazines. They're designing in a glass tower, and pushing that through a traditional wholesale and retail channel, and hoping to create demand from advertising.

Startup 182

Startup Commerce Design Media 182

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 15, 2012

I remember when I first saw one advertised in a magazine when I was on a flight from England to the US. And by obvious I mean – the slowness of Palm’s response to having email has got to go down as one of the most obvious blunders in technology history. And email was the most obvious thing they were missing.

Email 386

Email Startup Marketing Competition 386

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. One of those firms is Hydra (www.hydranetwork.com), which is a cost-per-action affiliate advertising network.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. One of those firms is Hydra (www.hydranetwork.com), which is a cost-per-action affiliate advertising network.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

Networks have significantly increased YouTubers’ advertising revenue by negotiating sponsorships and large ad purchases with major brands. By allowing advertisers to purchase ads across a cadre of YouTubers, Internet TV networks can achieve their efficiency and reach goals.

Google 133

Google Develop Development Funding 133

Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2011

New magazines were rushed to market, thick with advertisements for computer systems and components at bargain prices. And it still is important today. I am an investor in a large home service company that specializes only in technology installations and repairs for the home and small business customer.

Pricing 184

Pricing Networking IBM IBM 184

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

Causecast 222

Causecast Startup Content Education 222

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Super-angel investors are a new category of investors (like Mike Maples Jr. ), closer to venture capitalists, who are perceived to be more sophisticated, insightful, or well-connected in the startup community, particularly with respect to technology companies in Silicon Valley and other technology centers (also called micro-VCs).

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

When the tech bubble burst, we focused on technology M&A investment banking, which was my personal expertise. I also brought my Bay Area technology connections to the team from my Stanford network. Our original vision was about the convergence of technology and media in Southern California and globally. Montgomery & Co.

Southern California 100

Southern California Invest Media Content 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

We know that in early April Apple will deliver the iPad, which with a larger format may have an impact on the consumption of newspapers, magazines and videos. it provides complete transparency in how much advertisers are paying, how much Burstly takes and what your revenue is. The Kindle has already revolutionized book reading.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

As part of that, we started asking professors for recommendations on who we could talk to, and we found out they only knew one person, or told us to check out a magazine, or Google this and that. That''s how we ended up developing this technology, to take that initial step out of the process. Finding a lawyer is very intimate.

Help 240

Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

I started looking to sell ModernMom and do something strategic a few years ago when I saw that there was a shift in the mom space, where advertisers and brand partners were moving from targeting mass numbers of people, towards niche sites. Are sponsors interested in such highly targeted sites, rather than the broad reach?

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2012

You can innovate in technology, markets, and customers, but inventing a new business model is a bad bet. This is the most often attempted and failed business model today on the Internet – all the services are free, and you make money off the online advertising. Try something like, “the product costs $X, and we sell it for $Y.”

Startup 95

Startup Customer Custom Summary 95

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

“As voice API, voice broadcast and text messaging technology advances and cloud computing becomes increasingly sophisticated, more and more business – across all core market sectors — are discovering why cloud telephony is the future,” said Dinesh Ravishanker, CEO and co-founder, CallFire.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

To get to my point the waiting room is full of great magazines that I personally don’t subscribe to, but love to read. These magazines are full of wonderful photos and articles depicting the “good life”. What IMVU thought was game changing technology was not why customers used the software. But I digress.

Customer 72

Customer Custom Blogging Startup 72

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

You can innovate in technology, markets, and customers, but inventing a new business model is a bad bet. This is the most often attempted and failed business model today on the Internet – all the services are free, and you make money off the online advertising. Try something like, “the product costs $X, and we sell it for $Y.”

Ideas 92

Ideas Startup Customer Custom 92

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology. Guest: interview with a special guest, ranging from world-reknowned business entrepreneurs to leaders in technology law and policy. Radio, and at Fashion Camp LA , Gov.20 20 LA and the LA Media Reform Summit.

IP 81

IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. There are also others who are doing advertisements with short video. Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 We're targeting any company producing any short form video.

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

You can innovate in technology, markets, and customers, but inventing a new business model is a bad bet. This is the most often attempted and failed business model today on the Internet – all the services are free, and you make money off the online advertising. Guy also says that the smart approach is to copy somebody else.

Startup 48

Startup Customer Custom Summary 48

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Dan Gould is the another founder of Chill and leads the technology team. Previously, he co-created Farmville, and was the CEO/co-founder of MyMiniLife, Inc.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

After college I came back to Los Angeles to work in the advertising industry. It was as if they were reading a Cosmo magazine to see what we were talking about. We got stuck early on with technology and we had to learn from the past to make the process much smoother now. Talia, tell me a little about yourself. Entertainment.

Santa Monica 74

Santa Monica Startup Beverly Hills Orange County 74

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

When you’re an early-stage business every dollar matters and because many startup teams these days are very product & technology centric they often miscalculate the importance of PR. I once asked somebody at Accenture (where I worked early in my career) why they advertised so much at airports. ” You get the call.

Press 415

Press Google Course Writing 415

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. He is a frequent public speaker. gigaom.com. .

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

How to create a technology start-up inside a large organization - based on how we are doing it right. Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization entrepreneur, Startup, Technology. . Chris Ennis, OneRecovery.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Is the game over?

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318