socalTECH

JULY 29, 2015

Los Angeles-based online advertising automation technology developer Rubicon Project reported some healthy growth in its second quarter. Rubicon said the growth in revenues game both from organic growth, and strategic acquisitions. Rubicon said Tuesday afternoon that it had $53.0M

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

It has now added to the list of partners local news service Patch and ProPublica, including its Local Reporting Network partners and its collaborative journalism project Electionland. Meanwhile, the ProPublica Local Reporting Network funds and jointly publishes year-long investigative projects with 23 local news organizations across the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

According to recent reports , these come from all the way up and down the age and experience spectrum, including up to ninety percent of the current Baby Boomers, as well as Millennials. Focus on a very flat organization, with minimal hierarchy. Prioritize demonstrated execution versus potential.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

OpenX and Steelhouse are in the online advertising industry, and Thrive Market is an e-commerce company focused on organic food. Snapchat had reportedly been on track to hit a $100M run rate--a longtime milestone--in 2015, however, has not announced yet if it hit that goal. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2016

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider OpenX said late Monday evening that the company has reached $140M in revenues, which it says is a record. The privately held company--which has not previously reported its revenue number publicly--said it doubled its revenue and tripled its profits in the last two years.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2017

Engage:BDR has just launched a platform which lets brands browse and discover influencers, create campaigns, and reach customers through limited time advertisements posted by those influencers. All of that is used to mark a post as payable, and also provides additional reporting for advertisers, who want to know how many people they reached.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2021

A personal assistant must be highly organized and detail-oriented. On the basic search engine front, WolframAlpha is an amazing computational engine often used by Siri, which creates intelligent results, graphs, and reports from any natural language question. Good organizational skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

We all see reports of venture capitalists who invest millions in new businesses, but be assured that these investments come only after you have a proven base business, and have a case for scaling it quickly. The remainder use outside funding, including crowdfunding, friends and family, banks, and investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” Bring in an experienced Board and world-class leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Even the best technology can’t read your mind, which is why a simple Google search often gives frustrating and irrelevant results, and online advertisers bombard you with opportunities of no interest. In his classic book, “ Digital Context 2.0: Seven Lessons in Business Strategy, Consumer Behavior, and the Internet of Things ,” David W.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2009

Covario said that it has hired on Jeff Johnson to the position, reporting to CEO Russ Mann. Johnson has also served at AOL Time Warner, Homebuilder.com, and Trader Advertising Media. Covario develops software used to optimize search advertising, display advertising, and organic search. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

Even the best technology can’t read your mind, which is why a simple Google search often gives frustrating and irrelevant results, and online advertisers bombard you with opportunities of no interest. In his classic book, “ Digital Context 2.0: Seven Lessons in Business Strategy, Consumer Behavior, and the Internet of Things ,” David W.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And then bit by bit, we grew the organization. We work with large brands that have a strong organic following on social media; and their question is: “Hey, Greg, why should I spend more money if I would have acquired those users anyway?” The data science team also builds pretty robust reporting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

By “vertical production” I meant that many online video production companies will have a strong vertical focus that will help them win the battle to sign up talent, build stronger & more loyal audiences and align with stronger advertiser relationships because they serve more endemic audiences.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

As we go into Halloween this weekend, we want to thank all of our sponsors, advertisers, and members, who make it possible for us to exist. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Advertisers. Tags: sponsor advertising. Thanks in particular to: Sponsors.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported its quarterly results Wednesday afternoon, reporting that it saw 50 million monthly unique visitors to the firm's websites in June, up 35 percent from 37 million uniques in June of last year. The bright spot in the firm's result were advertising revenue, which the firm said were up $1.2M

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

That at least gets sponsors and advertisers out of the potentially messy situations that can come from working with spokespeople whose actions can’t be controlled by software — or an ingenious marketing team. However, lying to reporters may not be the best way to continue trying to achieve it.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

.” There are other tools out there, IBM has OpenPages and ThomsonReuters developed a tool for audit and risk and compliance , but these software services pre-dated Sarbanes-Oxley, and were not made with a modern organization in mind, according to Lee and Kim. “We were impressed with AuditBoard’s product and its customer traction.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2011

In the aftermath of the June move by California to tax Amazon.com and other out-of-state, online retailers, legislators are apparently looking to implement an "urgency bill" which would nullify Amazon.com's efforts to organize a referendum on the issue.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Prior to joining Science, Monahan was co-founder and CEO AlphaBoost, a Facebook advertising reporting software builder. He understands the nuances of social media marketing and his expertise in advertising technology, particularly across Facebook, will serve to further accelerate our portfolio companies’ growth.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Most people have heard of Foursquare for local nightlife and Airbnb for rooms, but other nationally recognized sources for local services are still hard to find, including social media, local news, advertising, and event calendars. I still hear often the dream of a free service to users, supported by advertising, per the Facebook model.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

The consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertiser experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. We''re connecting those two parties.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

A consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertisers experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. We''re connecting those two parties.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

It''s up 30 to 40 percent, and we had 2 million visits in May, all organic. Evan Britton: There are two things we''ve done with FamousBirthdays that has fueld our organic growth. Although the web offers amazing chances for organic growth, you have to do something amazing. Six months ago we only had 650,000 visitors.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 22, 2015

So much so that Google recently reported that mobile search has finally overtaken desktop search, and Facebook rolled out a new app called Hello that connects the dots between people’s social and phone contacts. The ROI from tools like Invoca are so clear that our clients are asking to extend this across more areas of their organization.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2012

Start here for a list of VC organizations. Same thing for Angel organizations. Then you find someone you know in one of these companies, or polish your resume for submission to the startup websites advertising openings. Join local organizations. Most VCs list the startups they are funding, with pointers to their websites.

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television. We settled on Venture Partner as is now being reported and also picked up here. He walked me through both the logic and the math. So I started introducing him to portfolio companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2011

Start here for a list of VC organizations. Same thing for Angel organizations. Then you find someone you know in one of these companies, or polish your resume for submission to the startup websites advertising openings. Join local organizations. Most VCs list the startups they are funding, with pointers to their websites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2013

A personal assistant must be highly organized and detail-oriented. On the basic search engine front, WolframAlpha is an amazing computational engine often used by Siri, which creates intelligent results, graphs, and reports from any natural language question. Good organizational skills.

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Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 98

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

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 saw that we had traction in the journalism and news organization marketplace, so we concentrated on that area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2016

Even the best technology can’t read your mind, which is why a simple Google search often gives frustrating and irrelevant results, and online advertisers bombard you with opportunities of no interest. In his new book, “ Digital Context 2.0: Seven Lessons in Business Strategy, Consumer Behavior, and the Internet of Things ,” David W.

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Social Media Tool Anthem Google 53

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

But not just novel anymore, when the film Minority Report came out in 2002, these concepts were admittedly a bit scary, eye scanning spider robots, humans being plugged into computer systems, advertisements bombarding you simply by walking into a mall. That’s sci-fi stuff, impossible in our lifetimes. Just kidding. Just kidding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

The news that Ynon Kreiz is joining to run the company as Executive Chairman was first reported by Peter Kafka at AllThingsD (and later picked up by Variety , AdWeek and several other traditional media outlets. Ynon Kreiz is a force of nature in the media and tech sectors. And he has truly been a pleasure to work with.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more. Thank you all for helping make SBF happen, including engaging attendees, smart panelists , amazing volunteers, up-til-3a organizers , supportive partners and sponsors , and gorgeous hotels Erwin and Viceroy.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

In the Harvard Business Review Female Economy 2009 report, women purchasing power was predicted to control about $28 trillion in annual global consumer spending, if not more. Connecting with your customer via social media, forums or advertising is the norm these days, but there’s nothing as strong as building a community around your brand.

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