Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow. Even so, ads only work if people can see them, and today’s ad formats need to be visible on any device.

Advertising 40

Advertising Media Mobile Buzznet 40

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. The first big wave of this change came from the introduction of the iPhone, which was the first well built mobile device for using the web. The world is going mobile.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Utilizing this same core technology, TVSync has developed automatic content recognition (ACR) software that can be accessed in seconds by video and/or audio using the camera and/or mic from a mobile device. The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV.

Screening 82

Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2021

In today’s mobile hardware environment, that means able to set up meetings, convert text messages to voice, find contact information quickly, and search the Web intelligently for outside info. I believe the current major drive to mobile devices and apps has slowed the progress toward this new semantic environment, but it’s coming.

Web 152

Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 152

InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

RingRevenue's unique technology allows online and offline advertisers and publishers to consistently increase revenues from mobile, print, search and email campaigns by tracking the phone calls generated by such ads. So it only makes sense that the Facebook mobile app has been an enormous success. Yeah, right.

Netflix 191

Netflix Blogging Mobile Advertising 191

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

Have you every clicked on a mobile ad on your iPhone or Android phone, and found that the ad you clicked into wasn't usable on your mobile phone? Jason Crilly: We're doing mobile landing pages. We're creating really good looking, really easy to use, really effective mobile landing pages. What exactly is PageWoo?

Mobile 249

Mobile Startup Advertising Sites 249

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. tech community and to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing us in the coming years. See you there!

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws. In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. It’s central standard was HTML (hyper text markup language) that described how we would show data on computer screens.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP? Louis and Atlanta.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP.com? Louis and Atlanta.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

In-picture advertisements? ” Online advertising is changing. He explains with online marketing in general, there’s the huge shift into native advertising (inputting marketing messaging in line with content users are actively engaging with) – Largely due to a shift away from traditional in banner advertising.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Advertising Google Screening 76

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Look to the movie screen to see what you won’t soon forget. Mobile is where it’s at.

Marketing 82

Marketing Demand Startup Customer 82

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I entered Pepcom’s Mobile Focus event with heightened excitement after driving through the busy intersections of Downtown San Diego’s rickshaw littered streets. Literally, I mean everyone… pets included, with Tagg , a Qualcomm backed venture that allows consumers to track their dogs via mobile or computer access.

San Diego 65

San Diego Mobile Startup Cloud Computing 65

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

We''ve already integrated Twitter and Facebook, and our product is in its earliest MVP, and it''s now out there. After we alpha tested an early version of this, I decided I really wanted to pursue it, and pursue it as a full scale product. Phoebe Scott: The really big thing we''d like to get going in 2014 is mobile.

Entertainment 206

Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Using the power of the Internet’s connected tools they are proposing a new film model from financing, distribution, production and user participation by fostering a hardcore community under a Share-alike Creative Commons license. There will be a smattering of special screenings worldwide. Above all, we love to tell stories.”

Screening 111

Screening Media Content Startup 111

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Calls are changing but not dying. Much more data in the full post.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

Users of the Instagram mobile application--which runs on iPhone and Android--are familiar with how that app has become one of the key ways people socialize and share their life with others, all via the service's photo sharing and comments. Edward Park: Our company, Rnddr Labs, is trying to create frictionless merch tools and products.

Startup 174

Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

According to Andrey Doronichev, head of YouTube mobile in a blog post today said, “All diehard YouTube fans starting today can download the official YouTube app for iPhone and iPod touch from the App Store. In the post Doronichev says YouTube on mobile has over 1 billion mobile views a day and expect the new move to even better the views.

Google 69

Google Outsource Development Screening Mobile 69

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2013

In today’s mobile hardware environment, that means able to set up meetings, convert text messages to voice, find contact information quickly, and search the Web intelligently for outside info. I believe the current major drive to mobile devices and apps has slowed the progress toward this new semantic environment, but it’s coming.

Web 98

Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 98

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

From there most websites unfortunately don’t know what to really do with it so it basically just becomes a way to log you in and potentially allow advertisers to serve up more targeted (and therefore higher CPM) ads. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. What is your mobile strategy? For Meebo 1.3%

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Integrated car-to-mobile communication that allows you to drive and plan your day without touching your phone once. Auto-interfaces are clunky, and when a lot of these big tech companies IPO’d, a lot of them developed products that were endemic to the car industry – navigation, social graphs, etc.

Advertising 97

Advertising Startup Marketing Mobile 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Minimum Viable Product (MVP). For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. It suggests the minimum features to allow the product to be deployed and get feedback, and no more.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

Tech Companies & Calls: I once read a quote on Twitter that said, If you use a tech service for free then product is you. But they make the overwhelming majority of their money from advertising. They are selling audiences to advertisers. Whenever I talk about advertising people comment how much everybody hates ads.

Mobile 311

Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. OTHER DEALS: 1. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

One for each of the main Hero Screens you have in your application. A Hero Screen is defined as a major application screen, from which additional screens will branch out. Donald has a mobile phone, but doesn’t download many apps. Sally is taken to the Create an Account screen.

Marketing 84

Marketing Screening Social Network Startup 84

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. they have purchasing intent ).*.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2012

They’ve announced hiring partnerships with nine Boston-area companies ( Brightcove , Dyn, Inc , Fiksu , Kyruus , Kinvey , Rue La La , Swipely , Trip Advisor , uTest ) across a variety of categories, including: e-commerce, mobile applications, health care informatics, and advertising technology. great jobs.

Education 86

Education Startup Software Review Technical Review 86

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

One for each of the main Hero Screens you have in your application. A Hero Screen is defined as a major application screen, from which additional screens will branch out. Donald has a mobile phone, but doesn’t download many apps. Sally is taken to the Create an Account screen.

Marketing 53

Marketing Screening Social Network Email 53

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

It’s not because the statuesque pair wants to give Armie Hammer a run for his money on the silver screen. Advertise Here. Advertise Here. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Zuckerberg Interview. Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. The reason for the move out west?

SoCal 77

SoCal Southern California Startup Tips 77

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Screen space is valued for the utility it provides in browsing the internet, interacting with apps, managing photos, and more. This allows for the user to project TV screens, complex 3d models, videogames, and even video conferences onto the real world. But would customers necessarily want this?

Screening 40

Screening Cloud Computing IP Technology 40

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes. The more intriguing topic becomes what’s happening around the products.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Leveraging mobile application and online platform. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider is the CEO of Mobile Roadie , the leading self-service mobile app engagement platform. In just a few minutes, anyone (no programming knowledge required) can create a mobile app. ThinkNear helps you target mobile ads to consumers at precise locations.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The premise is that with the rise of Facebook on the Internet & Apple “Apps&# on mobile, the Internet is becoming more closed. Brands took out advertisements espousing their “AOL Keyword.&#. We could update small portions of the screen rather than an entire refresh. non-mobile). You’re on AOL.

Web 300

Web HTML SMTP Google 300

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Highlights included Tyler Crowley (of Sqweal and the Launch conference), Myke Armstrong and William Barnes’ presentation of Votoboth and how it’s not about badges anymore, but county fair ribbons (keep this in mind as you gamify your product). All presentations were of extremely high quality and teams did a killer job.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73