SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

It's really the home of a broad base of services to help media and tech companies develop new opportunities, and accelerate their success. Yahoo is on the block�I just wrote a piece on my blog with data points that reflect that�and you can see all of the activity happening, as I anticpated, in media and technology consolidation.

Media 100

Media Blogging Hulu Invest 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

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. They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. In a recent book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. When the glass is only.04%

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Marketing Snapchat 101

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services. By the way, I don’t spell check my blog posts either.

Email 250

Email Writing Conference Mobile 250

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

Product is simply about defining a physical good or service that would be valued by consumers of the product more than existing alternatives based on functionality, quality and/or price. While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, Kik, and other applications. I just finished a new book by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Marketing Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

By making it easier to capture value for goods & services that ordinary people provide and by creating a means of storing value today that can be used in the future — currencies have literally changed society and the world. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter blockchain.

Course 280

Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And while producers also have their own direct websites and distributors have their own originals: The world is specializing into mostly content producers and content distributors plus social platforms that also distribute video like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine and Snapchat. So we expect 2016 to be a bumper year.

Company 150

Company Companies Netflix Content 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder. All great communication companies.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

billion invested in Venice, CA-based Snapchat. —IT services accounted for $946 million in 80 deals. Financial Services. Included is the $3.5 billion that a non-traditional investor (the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund) invested in San Francisco-based Uber, and the nearly $1.3 based companies raised almost $15.8

Marina Del Rey 40

Marina Del Rey Invest Venture Capital San Diego 40

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Gripe worked well as a social service, but it just didn't work as a business. Snapchat is a disappearing moment, Instagram is a moment in time, Twitter is a moment with a status or link. Grip was sort of a better social Better Business Bureau, which let people post their complaints and get resolution in public, non-anonymously.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Gripe worked well as a social service, but it just didn't work as a business. Snapchat is a disappearing moment, Instagram is a moment in time, Twitter is a moment with a status or link. Grip was sort of a better social Better Business Bureau, which let people post their complaints and get resolution in public, non-anonymously.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

Xconomy

JANUARY 29, 2019

Equidate, one of the trading platforms that help employees sell their shares in pre-IPO unicorn companies, rolled out a new name today and announced a $35 million expansion of its $50 million funding round publicized in July.

Venture Capital 58

Venture Capital Platform Capital Funding 58

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter. The idea of a “retweet” as an endorsement and as a way to “share” someone else’s content within your feed and with your followers, was relatively new (outside of blogging). montanatriplett nice, which Pinot Grigio.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40