socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. Tell us about the new fund?

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Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Scripted.com allows online publishers to hire writers to develop blog posts and Twitter posts from an online marketplace. Scripted.com, which is led by Sunil Rajaraman, also counts Break Media's Keith Richman as an advisor, along with actor/writer/director Edward Burns.

Angel 173

Angel CIO Southern California USC 173

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2011

There are lots of knowledgeable people that we find to write these guides--people who grew up there, and who are experts in the area. In the past, their reviews have been through blogs, and as you know, the second your write a blog post, it falls off a cliff. That's really empowering. It's working out really well.

Guide 203

Guide Software Review Twiistup Technical Review 203

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

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. It's fun, I guess. Only a dummy would do it again.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We have a number of curation and publishing tolls that let our users write metacontent and annotations on the content, and to create fresh content feeds they can place on their website, in a newsletter, on mobile, or on social. In the past, companies were just blogging, or just creating content.

Web 237

Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I'm a glass half full kind of guy, and it's more of my personal blogging channel. I started to meet lots of people, and really got into this community around personal blogging. Adorian Deck: My channel is AdorianDeck, which is my name. It's mostly about the things I'm thinking about, style, positive messages, and motivational things.

Startup 100

Startup Hollywood Content Examples 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We've got to look for all the records which point to the same businesses, even though they might point to slightly different addresses, or might have an error, or there might be multiple ways to write a businesses' name, or because there might be different phone numbers for that business. In the case of the U.S.,

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. I’ve been leading the charge here with Mark Suster (read his blog BothSidesofTheTable ). Past Startups Uncensored LA Tech Events.

Company 111

Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

One day, I wrote a blog post seeing if anyone else was into this, and people said yea--let's set up a meeting at Crashspace. I've done things like figured out how to write my own iOS app, played around with Arduino. It made a lot of sense to me to be in a space where I'd be around people working on really cool stuff.

Startup 227

Startup Tool Ideas Class 227

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

none that feel like the blogging, free commenting, or even anything like Geocities. I draw the analogy to blogging--on the low end, anyone can set up a Wordpress blog. At the high end, people can write plug-ins. The analogy is they're more like AOL, or even like Prodigy used to be. He's been great.

Web 100

Web Blogging Web 2.0 Startup 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We get requests like that from people who are doing their own primary research, for their own business plans; people doing market analysis; from the financial community; but also from people writing things like iPhone apps, creating their own blogs, or commenting about the industry in the newspapers.

Beverly Hills 164

Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Those companies are ones they don't have time to write about, or don't have an interest in, or who they just don't have the resources to write about. We're expanding into other news centric sites, such as user-generated news, big blogs, etc. It's been around for five months so far. How are you backed?

News 124

News Advertising Press Sites 124

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. It is differentiated from a Squidoo, eHow, blogs, or Google Knol in that it has a greater depth of information, and provides deeper information to the user. But, it didn't seem scalable.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.)

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. Fred Wilson wrote an eloquent piece on his blog about “ recycling capital ,&# which every regional community should read. Every region needs its local media & events. How do we make that happen?

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317