Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2022

This book was not sanctioned by Larry Page and Sergey Brin , so it’s not a love story. Both have a deep sense of moral values and ethics, and work well together. Technology alone does not make a great company. They focused on small advertisers looking for bargains. They challenge old industries and make a lot of enemies.

Startup 131

Startup Google Advertising .Net 131

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

If you still don’t get Snapchat please read the primer or follow me on Snapchat for a week or two because how I create “stories” on Snapchat is more of a use case for modern media than perhaps some teens use the product so it may resonate more with you what the future could bring.

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Advertising Media Platform 150

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Kurt and his crew can make these, and about 35 of other once-in-a-lifetime treks, a reality. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. Kurt Kutay, Founder and CEO of Wildland Adventures , believes that "luxury adventure travel" does not have to be an oxymoron. Ever fantasized about climbing Mt.

Entrepreneur 187

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

We started the company to make ads that people love to click on and we’re doing it at scale with millions of ads per day.”. 5) Most great companies have inspiring Origin Stories. We started the company to make ads that people love to click on and we’re doing it at scale with millions of ads per day.”. You guys never broke up.

Yahoo 210

Yahoo Startup Advertising Summary 210

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion.

Web 187

Web Content Startup Education 187

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

More specifically, we are a real time bidding platform which enables marketplaces to be set up, where an advertiser can bid on consumers who are in the process of buying a particular product. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product.

Media 162

Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2019

This book was not sanctioned by Larry Page and Sergey Brin , so it’s not a love story. Both have a deep sense of moral values and ethics, and work well together. Technology alone does not make a great company. They focused on small advertisers looking for bargains. They challenge old industries and make a lot of enemies.

Google 98

Google Startup Advertising .Net 98

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was pretty skeptical about the firm at first, but then I started talking with folks and getting to know the team, and saw how much revenue they were driving, and decided to make the leap. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? What''s your background and how did you end up at YP?

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

InfoChachkie

APRIL 20, 2015

This is the approach many startups take when they communicate their story to the market. This is the approach many startups take when they communicate their story to the market. It involves persuading jaded media gatekeepers that your venture’s story is compelling enough to warrant their audience’s valuable mindshare.

Outsource Development 100

Outsource Development Outsource Allegis Startup 100

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

What's the whole story behind StockTwits and how it came about? I remember saying that I just don't get it, even though they had a great story. Howard Lindzon is CEO and Co-founder of StockTwits (www.stocktwits.com), the financial micro-messaging service. Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was pretty skeptical about the firm at first, but then I started talking with folks and getting to know the team, and saw how much revenue they were driving, and decided to make the leap. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? What''s your background and how did you end up at YP.com?

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. They told us that they were going to start this new, crowdfunding site, and we thought it would be great to be on it and started working together on it. Tell us about your project?

Startup 252

Startup Sites Patents Outsource Development 252

Berkonomics

JULY 9, 2011

It would pay you to work over this set of questions in a special session with sales, marketing and senior management in the room at once. Is your product or service one that responds to a customer need, real or perceived? Your marketing and sales effort must be focused entirely upon making your product solve an urgent customer need.

Sales 222

Sales Customer Custom Pricing 222

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Now you can get direct contact and real insights by testing innovative messages through social media even before you rollout the product, and can tune both your message and the product. Actively lead conversations, as well as real listening. That means they want to see you as a leader, with innovative ideas and a real point of view.

Social Media 73

Social Media Customer Custom Mobile 73

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?

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2013

You are making business relationships and new friendships constantly. You might interact with many other people, and you make new friends and relationships. What''s one of the hottest, fastest growing mobile apps out there out of a Southern California startup? For those who haven''t used your app, describe Tinder?

Mobile 245

Mobile Southern California News Snapchat 245

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. What's the story behind the funding? What's the story behind the funding? Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising.

Advertising 157

Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

Many experts are certain that successful entrepreneurs are the ones with the most inspiration (passion and dream), while others will assert that it’s about more perspiration (working harder). Moving a dream into reality requires balancing on a tight-rope of passion supported by unending efforts to move heaven and earth to make it happen.

Satisfaction 101

Satisfaction Entrepreneur Customer Custom 101

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan: PaperLinks' mission is to hyperlink the real world. My hypothesis, is that hyperlinks are migrating into the real world, and that the world is moving past the web browser on the desktop to retrieve information. Information retrieval on-the-go is coming to a world near you, and PaperLinks wants to make that possible.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

Over the next few months we will work closely with the team at MVF to ensure a successful transition as the organization continues to build Tech.Co Over the next few months we will work closely with the team at MVF to ensure a successful transition as the organization continues to build Tech.Co Most importantly, we like them.

Media 175

Media News Organization Content 175

socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2013

They''re mostly C level executives, and households with incomes of over $200,000 a year, which makes advertisers on our site such as Neiman Marcus, LVMH, Mercedes, Ritz Carlton, and Mandarin Oriental a big component of our business. Talk about Luxury Link? When did you get involved with the company?

Pricing 256

Pricing Sites Marketing SEM 256

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. The answer? Something so simple.

Acquisition 304

Acquisition Startup Customer Custom 304

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

This is the only mistake I repeated twice and it is a mistake that I see many, many companies make. Make sure you know what the size of customer you want to serve is, what the people in a company of that size do, the problems they have, the features that will resonate and the channels you’ll need to sell into and service that customer.

Startup 389

Startup Customer Custom Resource 389

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Usually, it's someone with just curiosity about the app, and the advertisers will pay several dollars for that download, only to have the user just delete the app, without having ever played it or even gotten through a tutorial. At the time, I really had no intention of ever working again. What is AppOnboard?

Startup 113

Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

Many experts are certain that successful entrepreneurs are the ones with the most inspiration (passion and dream), while others will assert that it’s about more perspiration (working harder). Moving a dream into reality requires balancing on a tight-rope of passion supported by unending efforts to move heaven and earth to make it happen.

Satisfaction 61

Satisfaction Startup Customer Custom 61

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Tell us the story behind Stroome and how it came about? My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. We grew out of an interesting use case. It ran in April of 2008.

Journal 187

Journal USC News Startup 187

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

THE FULL STORY. If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. Tech news keeps proclaiming “phone calls are dead,” which is useful except that the data suggests the exact opposite. There are 2.9

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

I started with a men's apparel brand doing marketing, creative, and branding, and worked on everything from production to design and manufacturing. I'd make my own style books in my bedroom, and post them on my bedroom walls, and editorialize my own stories and content. Explain the idea behind StyleSaint?

Startup 182

Startup Commerce Design Media 182

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. First off, talk about SendLove.to and what is it all about? Chris Lyman: It's a far departure from our former life in telco.

Startup 174

Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

Startup 100

Startup Patents Competition Social Network 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2017

This book was not sanctioned by Larry Page and Sergey Brin , so it’s not a love story. Both have a deep sense of moral values and ethics, and work well together. Technology alone does not make a great company. They focused on small advertisers looking for bargains. They challenge old industries and make a lot of enemies.

Google 55

Google Advertising .Net Entrepreneur 55

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. Jennifer Sargent: HitFix started two and a half years ago. My previous background was at Variety.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

This book was not sanctioned by Larry Page and Sergey Brin , so it’s not a love story. Both have a deep sense of moral values and ethics, and work well together. Technology alone does not make a great company. They focused on small advertisers looking for bargains. They challenge old industries and make a lot of enemies.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Google Advertising .Net 93

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Patents Startup Ideas 102

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2017

In the world of social networking, there are lots of apps and services which connect you with people you know, but not so many which help you connect with others like you. Los Angeles-based exactly.me (www.exactly.me) is hoping to change that, with an app that connects you with other like minded individuals, based on your reaction to photos.

Startup 100

Startup Social Network Southern California Mobile 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

That's the story behind Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com), which saw a great exit last week as it was acquired by content management software developer Lakana. That's the story behind Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com), which saw a great exit last week as it was acquired by content management software developer Lakana.

Mobile 100

Mobile Startup Content Advertising 100