Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Worlize is a user-created social gaming and chat platform for Facebook and social networks including Twitter, MySpace and OpenSocial. The 2D platform brings together a new world of interactivity for users, including the ability to play and create their own worlds and games. Brian McKelvey is the founder and CEO of Worlize, Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Attracting key stakeholders requires sensitivity.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

This traveling player can allow direct digital rentals from any blog, Facebook page, Twitter profile or other online site. Their baked in marketing technology helps producers determine the best distribution system by matching genres with online viewers demographics across 4,000 affiliate sites. The company has been funded for $3.1M

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2015

San Diego-based stock messaging service Stocktwits has just raised a new funding, which the company said came from its existing investors, plus strategic Asian financial technology investors, and strategic investors in the fund and ETF business in North America. funding round. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

He is well known in the Southern California Technology scene for his work producing the Digital Family event series, along with the MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) series. Besides Tony Karrer for technology, who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles? " Kurt has a great background in sales and marketing.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Not only has he become the richest man in the world again, leapfrogging a certain Mr Musk, but it has also been revealed that Amazon has quietly acquired ecommerce platform Selz. Martin Rushe, the CEO and founder of Selz wrote a blog post announcing the deal. It's been a big week for Jeff Bezos. What is Amazon Getting from the Deal?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Use marketing, blogging, and industry conferences to get the message out. Move to modern platforms for more collaboration. Customers and peer groups, including freelancers, are already using popular social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, so make them a part of your team culture.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Shut out of the Republican party's televised debates, Republic Presidential Candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson has taken his campaign online--using the technology of Santa Monica-based Yowie. Yowie said the town hall will be the first ever in a series of chats with politicians and pundits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. Here are some tips I’ve gleaned from experience: Make your blog your website. Anchor blog in your domain name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. Don’t connect the latest platform, which may be transient, with the larger phenomenon of digitally enabled social conversations. This part isn’t new.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. They do need the first few steps, and where to find the next steps. Marty Zwilling

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. The major battle for press is a battle for “mindshare” and it’s exactly the reason I blog. I am a VC. I hand out money.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

A booming American economy coupled with failing infrastructure and a low-margin business reluctant to adopt new technologies have put stress on domestic logistics companies in the $900 billion market for U.S. Shipwell makes money by charging a commission on freight services and fees for its freight management software platform.

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

The company is the first technology company to publicly commit to keeping its remote working policies in place into next year, in an attempt to give employees more clarity on how long they would be working from home. In a blog post in May, Google announced it would begin reopening its offices from early July this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.” Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Educational technology is one field worth examining, even though education hasn’t been a front-burner issue in the final months of the campaign. In the centerpiece of his education platform , Trump would redirect $20 billion in federal education spending to K-12 school choice programs. schools don’t do now.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2014

If you read my blog regularly you know this is a topic close to my heart – so it was great to get perspective from someone running a company in the space (a company which just raised an additional $25 million). Below, I’ve pulled out a few short clips that I thought were interesting points ( full interview at the bottom).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time. Technology evolution can be cyclical, with some branches looping back to the past with surprising vigor and without much self-awareness. Platforms eschew threading and then re-invent threading anew. We love technology, but.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. They do need the first few steps, and where to find the next steps. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife , a firm that develops tools and technology to sell merchandise to music fans, announced today that it has raised $1M in a bridge round of funding. The company said the funding will go to hire key personal, further develop its technology platform, and for strategic partnerships. READ MORE>>.

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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].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

A fellow thinker and tinkerer of technology. Some through blog comments – your place or mine. I was reminded of that when Shafqat Islam weighed in: @msuster @marshallk I built relationships via twitter and blog comments with both of you well before we ever met! Blog is best. Theory: it’s really that simple.

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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. Companies like Facebook need a true self-serve platform which lets their advertisers only get and pay for the calls they want.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content. We found that aggregation technology was very keyword driven, and relevancy was not that strong. In the past, companies were just blogging, or just creating content.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

I was an early user of Quora and like all new technologies they take a bit of playing with them for a while, discussing them with others and reflecting on them to let them sink in. Take AVC.com, the blog by Fred Wilson. I picked questions that I had already covered in depth on my blog and answered them in shorter form.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? I know this because you’re not a young teenager. See, I originally lost this deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment to be hard hitting – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Assess social media relevance to your product or service.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

I’ve been online for nearly 30 years (yes, there was CompuServe and Prodigy before the www), blogging for 10 and using social media tools since the earliest days. As somebody who invested his time heavily in writing and wanting to share his thoughts through a blog I learned that I had to Tweet a post 3 times to get it read: 5am, 8am and 10pm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Attracting key stakeholders requires sensitivity.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

Cloudbeds, a cloud-based provider of hospitality management software, said today it has raised slightly more than $9 million in Series B financing to expand its software-as-a-service platform and broaden awareness of its brand.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. Happy #TBT from our fearless Founder & CEO @fordblakely ! Hate2Wait #H8toW8 pic.twitter.com/KcMuKvoqRZ.

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