Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

Fred Wilson wrote a Tweetstorm and then did a blog post on the topic. I never asked Marc why he stopped blogging but I presume it is some combo of having started a venture capital firm (which you might guess takes a bit of time) and also allowing some air time for his then-less-well-known compadre. Engagement. They are synergistic.

Social Media 307

Social Media Blogging Media Startup 307

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. But, a mobile phone is still a phone.

Netflix 191

Netflix Blogging Mobile Advertising 191

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I wrote about this in a blog post last year titled “ It’s Morning in VC ” but I never made the full deck available until now. The opportunity set is much bigger than ever (50x more users, 10x time online, mobile, social, credit-card enabled, global) … when things work they work faster and at an unprecedented scale.

Venture Capital 362

Venture Capital Capital Startup Writing 362

socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2018

Today, we have an opinion piece from Ed Guerrero of Silicon Valley Bank, on the mobile gaming industry. This blog post highlights a trend I'm seeing here in Los Angeles: Established mobile gaming founders are leveraging their deep mobile expertise, including performance marketing, into new non-gaming verticals.

Mobile 113

Mobile Los Angeles Blogging Venture Capital 113

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Arnold Waldstein , who stops by periodically on my blog and always leaves relevant comments, made the observation that, “if I want to connect with you, I’ll engage with you on this blog …from there, a follow on Twitter, a link on LinkedIn are closing the loop of connection rather that opening a cold door.&# This is so true.

Startup 276

Startup Blogging Social Network Networking 276

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I wanted a smart NorCal investor who had done more mobile investments than I had and Jon Callaghan had very relevant relationships & experience. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

Invest 303

Invest Company Companies Web 2.0 303

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2015

The mobility of technology has exacerbated both the upsides (all the information at our finger tips at any moment) and the downsides (addictions of checking updates incessantly or spending more time capturing and posting events than enjoying them). I’ll still be online often – in both desktop and mobile mode.

Mobile 150

Mobile Startup Email Course 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I originally came from the entreprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I was in mobile & telecoms (8 years) so the last three years of immersing myself in consumer Internet, digital media & advertisings has been very eye opening. I put up a button on my blog and noticed that I got a few clicks on the button.

News 284

News Blogging Search Engine Optimization SEO 284

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2010

According to the two, they have released Team RadioShack, a free mobile iPhone app which allows users to get information about Lance Armstrong and Team RadioShack. The firms said the iPhone app will give users instant access to updates and news, exclusive content and photos, video blogs from Lance Armstrong, and more. READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica 182

Santa Monica Blogging Mobile News 182

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

I tell people that they need to blog about their industry to drive customers and not blog to their egos to drive their peer group to their blogs. We go through case studies like how Mint.com & Magento drove large audiences through great content marketing strategies. Doesn’t.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Los Angeles-based HipGeo , the developer of location-aware mobile apps that allow users to log their travels, is announcing today that it has partnered with Vagabondish , a news website focused on offbeat travel news and advice. The tie allows users to upload their pictures using HipGeo to a pool to share with other Vagabondish users.

eHarmony 159

eHarmony Blogging News Mobile 159

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2010

Looking to spur a show of company spirit, Jared Reitzin the CEO and founder of email and mobile marketing firm mobileStorm , is dangling $1,000 to any employee who gets a tattoo of the company's logo, and allows him to blog about it--and has tattooed his company logo on his own ankle, in his own show of dedication to his firm.

Mobile 182

Mobile Blogging Email Marketing 182

Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We’ve recently launched a video series called T3:Today’s Tech Trends to further support our shows by adding a video component that can be shared directly from YouTube, our blog or embedded in the radio show website, blog or any other website/blog willing to carry the free content. This show can be found at [link].

Social Media 220

Social Media Media Blogging Social Network 220

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 10, 2012

She’s worked for L’Oreal, Accenture, Virgin Mobile & BSkyB (one of the leading media companies in the UK). ” She gave me a special one-time permission to write about her in a blog post so I could publish the advice she gave our friend. So consider this my first-ever guest blog post. Hope you enjoy. **.

Writing 414

Writing Mentor Blogging Tips 414

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2014

I also added a little Soundcloud widget on the sidebar (if you’re viewing on web – not on mobile or RSS reader) that you can listen to each episode with. Update : Bothsides TV is now available on iTunes , Soundcloud , Stitcher , or any RSS podcast player you use, and don’t forget to subscribe on YouTube.

Product 292

Product RSS Social Media Content 292

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But I had been reading Munjal Shah’s blog about his experiences at Riya (later renamed Like.com) and this openess had an appeal to me. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company.

Organization 280

Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Irvine-based YouMail is heading back to the Android Market, after the firm was suddenly dropped from the store Thursday in a tiff with T-Mobile. version of the company's apps. YouMail said the error resulted in its app constantly polling its services, leading to bad battery life, network bandwidth issues, and more.

Marketing 145

Marketing Blogging Mobile Networking 145

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Hulu disclosed the new numbers in a blog post discussing the company''s 2013 results.

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Hulu Hollywood Content Blogging 176

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. All applications crash and this is especially true in the nascent mobile world where dealing with device types, OS’s & networks adds one hell of a configuration management problem. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile?

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. For something like commenting on a blog post, the ability to easily and quickly authenticate yourself is important. I couldn’t figure out why twitterfeed was sending out tweets of my blog posts. Example What do I mean?

Google 292

Google Startup Yahoo Email 292

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices.

Venture Capital 230

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Fandango 230

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

More importantly, he has just announced his first investment – he led a $7 million investment in Deliv – please read about it on Greg’s spiffy new blog. But how to mobilize same-day deliver cost effectively? I wrote about him here. That’s where Deliv comes in.

Startup 331

Startup Competition Examples Invest 331

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

This comment and blog post prompted me to write a post that has been in my queue for a long time. Now imagine in the world of email, IM, Twitter and mobile phones imagine just how much worse this problem has become. I often write that I learned more than I care to admit from working at Andersen Consulting.

Product 301

Product Writing Email Tool 301

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. is it OK to call an exec on his mobile phone. It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. How much to compensate them? how to structure the comp plan. when to call.

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Software Review Sales Tips Help 300

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the online marketing firm which helps small and medium sized business place Internet advertising, is shutting down its Bizzy local business recommendations site, according to a blog post from the site. Bizzy said the site and mobile apps will be shut down by mid-November.

ReachLocal 170

ReachLocal Woodland Hills Sites Blogging 170

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

According to a Viddy blog post, Viddy pulled its app from the App Store and Google Play yesterday, and is giving users until December 15th to export any of their videos from the service. viddy supernova fullscreen shutdown deadpool instagram video instant mobile' READ MORE>>.

Blogging 164

Blogging Google Mobile Los Angeles 164

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

Wish you could automatically hear and follow the latest tracks people are talking about on music blogs? Galica's new service allows users to automatically stream the tracks being talked about on a range of music blogs, for free. The firm is tapping streams from Shuffler.fm, Youtube, Soundcloud, and others for its tracks.

RSS 174

RSS Blogging Los Angeles Ideas 174

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 4, 2009

msuster for me) the message you write appears in my @msuster inbox on Twitter.com and on any of the desktop or mobile clients. Sometimes I’ll see people who want to make people aware of a blog posting. The basics: 1. When you use the @username (e.g. When does this come into play? They might have 2,000 followers. I have 1,200.

Tips 291

Tips Social Media Social Network Venture Capital 291

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew was SVP of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment which launched the very successful Simpsons online game (curse you for wasting tons of my kids free time!) On August 26th I had an equally effusive intro from Ynon Kreiz, also a friend, trusted source and also the CEO of portfolio company Maker Studios.

Funding 373

Funding Technical Review Startup Screening 373

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. As we've built this relationship with them, we let them see the mobile and social metrics, and make it so that they're able to create a campaign.

CTO Coach 223

CTO Coach Startup Mobile Artificial Inteligence 223

socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2011

YouMail, which is headed by Alex Quilici, explained in a blog post that it believes it was removed from the market due to complaints from T-Mobile, saying that it was "never contacted" by T-Mobile about its app.

Tech Coast Angels 140

Tech Coast Angels Marketing Technical Review Blogging 140

Xconomy

AUGUST 21, 2019

Ford subsidiary Autonomic today announced a step forward in its drive to expand the online mobility hub it built to manage digital interactions among cars, drivers, fleets, service providers, and auto manufacturers—including Ford’s rivals.

Mobile 104

Mobile Services Startup Customer 104

socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2013

Among the reasons given in a blog post from IVP, defending its investment in Snapchat: the firm loves LA. Why did lead investor IVP invest in what most local investors shied away from?

Snapchat 145

Snapchat Invest Electronic Arts Venice 145

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Bushnell was previously founder of mobile games firm Doppelgames, and has also been involved with Anti-Aging Games, Syyn Laabs, and other startups. A new, Los Angeles-based company, Two Bit Circus --headed by Brent Bushnell--has emerged, and announced it has finished its first few projects, including a series of videos created for Best Buy.

Software 145

Software Blogging Los Angeles Ideas 145

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

Startup 317

Startup Technical Review Venture Capital Email 317

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

That’s likely due to a continually expanding toolkit that now boasts a customer relationship management system, efficient dispatching and routing, invoice management, mobile applications for field professionals and marketing analytics and reporting tools.

Glendale 271

Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271