socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

I kept thinking that someone would eventually come up with a hub or place you could do everything--a home page, for example, where if you were going on a trip, and you could easily load your iPad full of stuff automatically. We''ve already integrated Twitter and Facebook, and our product is in its earliest MVP, and it''s now out there.

Entertainment 206

Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The video industry will be disrupted just as books, newspapers and music before it. The Exit Problem.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. So, what Quigo would do is analyze a web page for Overture and tell them what they thought it was about.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Image via Flickr by SideWages.com These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. A good start is a classic book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Curation, the most efficient content.

Blogging 105

Blogging eBook Content Web 105

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. A good start is a book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” People these days love to submit stories, vote on other entries, and receive the recognition of even small prizes or product rewards.

Content 114

Content Marketing Startup eBook 114

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on.

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. The first product tests for gluten and is especially targeted at people with Celiac’s disease which affects 1% of the population meaning millions of people.

Funding 362

Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws. In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. He’s right about this. But only temporarily in my view. I will cover this in my post. Social networking is peaking.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. The Past (1985-2002).

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. Recently I was reviewing a book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” You don’t need a real book as a base for electronic books, as people now prefer something akin to a “white paper” on steroids.

Examples 93

Examples Content Marketing Entrepreneur 93

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

On every profile page, we have a like button, plus we also have a search box. When people search for a celebrity birthday, or like a profile page, we count that as a vote. Instead, we build a very good product, get organic traffic, and those networks pay well. That also particularly fits well on mobile.

Google 236

Google Sites Startup Web 236

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. Recently I was reviewing a new book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list.

Content 102

Content Tips Marketing Blogging 102

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The future of TV will follow the rule of Deflationary Economics as I outline influenced by the book The Innovator’s Dilemma. Maybe small amounts of money for what founders reading these pages dream of but life-changing for many. think Amazon) and therefore hits with high production costs were more suited to the medium.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. The problem is that the average value of products that sell on affiliate networks is sub $100.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

What’s really needed, this group believes, is a society-wide mobilization of labor, technology, and innovation —the only precedent in American history being World War II. If you haven’t read the Gordon book or the McKibben article, well, you’re in luck: I’m about to summarize them here.

Class 40

Class Invest Technology Mobile 40

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

To learn more about all the companies, be sure to visit 500 Startups’ official demo day page. They’ve captured their market quickly by being the first providers of affordable luxury bookings with a business model to fill in a large amount of unused travel inventory. Pijon - think Birchbox for care packages.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

Not just the fact that you Tweet publicly versus privately, but also that they’re open in letting their Tweet stream flow into other products & services. I just want to point out that longer-term value is often harder to perceive when a product is still going through its growth stage. They’re an open feed. Not so open.

Social Media 274

Social Media Google Media Startup 274

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

In a book I read about ADD it said that your brain has a slow processing frontal cortex. I also found that not having your computer or mobile phone available drastically increasing your engagement and lowers your distractions. So given the choice between devices that are rude and paper productivity I’d choose the later.

Tips 150

Tips Startup Help Mobile 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. One story is, “Hey, maybe there’s something to this Google+ product?”. It is a must have if you’re building a technology product these days.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2011

Recently we’ve begun to see the rapid adaptation of mobile applications and their defiance of technology’s limits. These applications have quickly become a part of our daily lives from booking airfare, to social media, to streaming content, etc. We enjoy tinkering with objects, reverse engineering products, and building things.

Advertising 87

Advertising Content Template Technology 87

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. PuddleWorks – PuddleWorks is developing interactive mobile games and leveraging these products and capabilities to develop a powerful franchise. Think the new products are the only big things happening for Apple today?

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Our goal was to take those observations, and subsequent research, and turn that into commercial products. Right after that, I established connections with lots of artists--who were customer and friends--and started publishing books for them. What was the path from taking the technology from UC Irvine and commercialization it?

Startup 100

Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Simply click on the title of the panel you like and you will be taken to their SXSWi panel picker page. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

When he was 23 years old in 1993, Sky heard about the Internet and realized that it was the future, not the next wave, not a “passing trend” Following Earthlink’s incredible success, Sky founded eCompanies, an accelerator that helped spawn LowerMyBills.com, JAMDAT Mobile, and business.com. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

See the books I recommend to friends. Now let’s move on to the first couple topics: Step 0: Pre-product. Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

The state-of-the-art today when it comes to the social computing environments that surround us now — in our browsers, mobile devices, and elsewhere — underscore how much more we have left to do to make these new modes of digital conversation and discourse become mature, efficient, safe, and truly useful.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. Viddy, a mobile-video-sharing company, has its office a block from Google in Venice. A version of this article appeared October 5, 2012, on page M1 in the U.S. LINKS TO ACTUAL PAGE CONTAINING WEB SLICE FUNCTIONALITY.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44