socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

How do you combine the world of online and mobile apps with the world of community and political decisions and discourse? One thing with AllSay, is it looke like Buzzfeed did in the early days. Editors use Buzzfeed and read the news, to find proposals and decisions, and use the news as a source. We''d like to change that.

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Mobile Buzzfeed News Tool 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Facebook started with the biggest publishers in the game: BuzzFeed , Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post. BuzzFeed has seen their Instant Articles engage more people than any of their standard link posts and Gawker ’s founder tweeted that instant articles boosted daily uniques to their website.

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Buzzfeed Blogging RSS Netflix 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

We expect to be a huge growth market. It doesn’t matter who you are; you can be writing long-form journalism for Rolling Stone, doing advertorials for BuzzFeed, or you can be writing the menu for the restaurant down the street. Daily newspapers and some markets are going only two or three times weekly now.

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Journal Startup Writing Media 90

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

This morning I’m going to talk about the Mobile App ecosystem and why it’s led so many startups astray. It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats. And yes – I know I need to plug in my mobile phone.

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, And this brings our total funding to $43 million to solidify our market position as the leading Latino digital media company. AOL and the like.

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Company Companies Netflix Content 150