TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

They dominate the media, have accrued millions of fans on social networks and have branched into retail, fashion, production and more. Their relationship with fans is 24/7 and, regardless of how you feel about the family, their popularity is a clear indicator of this new always-on connection between public figures and their fans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2017

Yet if you wait for an economy bubble before starting your new business, you will be making a comparable mistake to the people who thought during the dot-com bubble "all I have to do is a startup, and I'll be rich." If you're worried about threats to the survival of your company, don't look for them in the news.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. The first thing we do, is we start with great content. So, we start with that. Right now, news organizations write off the news cycle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2019

Yet if you wait for an economy bubble before starting your new business, you will be making a comparable mistake to the people who thought during the dot-com bubble "all I have to do is a startup, and I'll be rich." If you're worried about threats to the survival of your company, don't look for them in the news.

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Startup Advertising Social Network Ideas 80

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Everyone is talking about how social media can help you jumpstart your business at no cost, and experts are springing up on all sides to help you do it at a high cost. So who do you believe, and what are the keys to success for your startup? Understand the basic tools – the social media trinity. Then set your goals.

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Social Media Media Startup Blogging 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Set up an award, and show winners. Advertising presence.

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Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2009

One of the perpetual themes of the technology news sites and blogs this year has been fairly nonstop coverage of Twitter, the microblogging site. Aside from constant coverage of whether the service is up, or down, or somewhere in between, there's also been a lot of attention given to how the service plans to make money. How does Ad.ly

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. We grew out of an interesting use case.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

One of the stealthiest Los Angeles startups to emerge in the last few months has been Namesake (www.namesake.com), headed by Brian Norgard and co-founded by Dan Gould. Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly.

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Social Network Startup West Hollywood Ideas 273

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Set up an award, and show winners. People buy from people.

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Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 88

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

And while that cliché has been said about everything in the Lone Star state for years, it rings particularly true for the hottest startups showcasing their big innovations at SXSW Startup Night 2018 presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo. If the user shares the add on social media, they earn an extra $.25.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

Our interview this morning is with Babette Pepaj , CEO and founder of BakeSpace (www.bakespace.com), a local Los Angeles startup focused on social networking around food. We caught up with Babette to get the story behind the site, and how the site helped her escape from the world of reality television. What is BakeSpace?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". TZLaw is a weekly, 45-minute live-streaming talk show hosted by Lisa Borodkin and Christina Gagnier.

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. At the time we heralded in a new era where “gatekeepers” were no longer going to shape stories to the public and “democratic news” would reign freely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2013

If you think "I better not start a startup now, because the economy is still not booming" you will be making a comparable mistake to the people who thought during the dot-com bubble "all I have to do is a startup, and I''ll be rich." Need less expensive advertising? Look in the mirror.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2013

What''s one of the hottest, fastest growing mobile apps out there out of a Southern California startup? The app has been extremely popular for dating, but co-founder and CMO Justin Mateen says it''s more than dating, it''s about meeting all sorts of new people. If the feeling is mutual, we tell you the good news, and introduce you.

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Mobile Southern California News Snapchat 245

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Set up an award, and show winners. Advertising presence.

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Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2010

If you think "I better not start a startup now, because the economy is still bad" you will be making a comparable mistake to the people who thought during the dot-com bubble "all I have to do is a startup, and I'll be rich." Need less expensive advertising? Look in the mirror. More available talent.

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Startup Advertising Social Network Ideas 93

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Here are eight Southern California companies and the experienced, successful entrepreneurs heading up their efforts, who haven't had any problems finding investors--or customers--for their firms. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Set up an award, and show winners. People buy from people.

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Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 54

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly So let me explain what I see as the importance and sustainability of Twitter as well as why I believe it’s still a great platform for startup companies and investors. But that’s not the deal they made with us when we signed up.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Set up an award, and show winners. Advertising presence.

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Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. Why the limitation?

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping: Score PR for Your Start-Up, On the Cheap. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Bootstrapping bootstrap, Profitability, Startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2011

That’s the reason every good parent should be coaching their child from birth to avoid posting all the naughty things on social networks that can come back to haunt them later. To illustrate the point, here is a true story posted by Seth Godin a while back: “A friend advertised on Craigslist for a housekeeper.

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Google Social Network Networking Coach 102

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

He is a marketing professional with over 8 years of extensive online and social media marketing experience. He gives up the goods and a few tips on what you could do to help market your company. Above is an interview we did with Patrick at BlogWorld Expo New York 2011. Funny Or Die doesn’t do any advertising.

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Sites Marketing Social Media Social Network 61

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Social networks. They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Watching video has now surpassed text searching, so you see more video ads – in banners, news lead-ins, and site placements. Blogs composed of video clips are called “vlogs.”

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Entrepreneur SEM Search Engine Optimization Blogging 89

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Social media.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And I’ll tell you why, starting with where you started and why you succeeded. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. Users could set up their phone to tweet from it; send an SMS txt and the tweet would appear on your profile. All these things set Twitter up for enormous user growth.

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Platform Startup News Content 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2010

That’s the reason every good parent should be coaching their child from birth to avoid posting all the naughty things on social networks that can come back to haunt them later. To illustrate the point, here is a story posted by Seth Godin a while back: “A friend advertised on Craigslist for a housekeeper. And the third?

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Google Entrepreneur Social Network Networking 50

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

They also have a new management team, that’s headed up in part by Michael Jones (COO), the most all around talented internet executive I know. Having grown up in LA, and having started Docstoc down here, there’s a bit of a shared connection. Local News Online & More Valuable User Generated Content.

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Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The industry itself is still so new there isn’t a clear roadmap. He believes the enterprise adoption of mobility is happening this year, and that we’re going to start seeing mobile being used AT work as much as outside of work. Peter Mullen, Bizzabo – a mobile networking application for event producers.

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Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. Thank you @eminutes. . Matthew Clough – Founder of Benson Backpacks.

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