TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. ‘Link-in-bio’ company Linktree raises $45M Series B for its social commerce features. With its $5.5

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Think about the retailer e-mails we receive daily or the ads that appear on Google or our social media sites. Though based on our Web searches, those ads don’t necessarily represent what we would like to buy. Retailers end up distancing themselves from customers when.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 23, 2009

Past presenters have received millions in funding from our program; and several have sold their company for huge earnings.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform. They build web solutions for venues and give them to the venues for free in exchange for keeping their ticket service fees.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 14, 2013

However, the right e-commerce technology and marketing is necessary to get your brand the exposure it needs to be seen. All of the e-commerce setup and marketing have already been done. You don’t have to worry about hiring web designers and marketing specialists to draw traffic to the site. Defining Your Customer Base.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 6, 2016

As the Internet continues to become populated with e-commerce sites, it’s becoming more and more difficult to generate web traffic, leads, and ultimate the sales for your website. Utilize Popular Social Media Platforms. Increase Your On-Site SEO. Collect Email Lists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly Store. Martin Zwilling.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

The principal drivers of this re-imagination are the hyper-growth of the mobile Internet, consumer-controlled commerce, the rise of big data, and “globality.” Mobile commerce is up 552% in one year (measuring cyber-Mondays). Let’s explore examples of these and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events. Get support from credible industry groups and partners. Focus on a solution that is scalable world-wide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A series of events this year—from the Equifax data breach to the foreign use of social media to influence the U.S. presidential election—has prompted some to question the utopian promise of innovation, especially when it comes to Web companies and cybersecurity. Here’s an edited transcript.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

A translator will be able to alert you about any potential cultural issues with your web content. Good website localization also involves hosting and web infrastructure. If you're planning to launch an e-commerce website in a foreign market, local affiliate networks could prove useful in your online marketing mix.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We recently completed a web-based application that uses a unique algorithm to match professionals with new career opportunities. As part of the onboarding process, the app asks both job seekers and employers what they’re looking for - in a text box - while providing a few suggestions in a pop-up. If you’re remote, use your imagination.)

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. I noticed that in the e-commerce realm, there was a tremendous uptick in sales, where people were promoting bargain hunting for nationwide merchants such as Amazon and Best Buy--especially as the recession hit in 2007 and 2008, and started taking a toll.

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Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data.

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Tech.Co

JULY 9, 2024

As we ease into the summer months, business optimism finally seems to have recovered from its Covid-induced slump, with a new survey from the US Chamber of Commerce revealing that 73% of US business owners expect their revenue to grow in the next year. Chamber of Commerce. 🌎 Or appear as if you're in another country?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. How did you do that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2020

The explosion of self-reporting on social media has led us to provide very intimate details of ourselves. Many market research companies now use this data by ‘scraping’ the web to obtain detailed examples of the sentiment relating to particular issues, brands, products, and services. Datafication of speech.

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Social Media Research Examples Commerce 124

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Content is king of the road.

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Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. No company has more value control points than Google, which spans advertising, e-commerce, social media, video and mobile, as well as a full suite of hardware products. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business.

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Develop Development Platform Mobile 138

Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2015

On the web, not only does no one know much of who you are, but no one cares how you sourced your widgets. Now listen to one of Bazaarvoice’s short pitches: “Our industry- leading social commerce solutions capture & amplify user-generated content, driving the highest social media ROI, for the world’s largest brands.”

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Outsource Social Media Commerce Writing 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2022

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The explosion of self-reporting on social media has led us to provide very intimate details of ourselves. Many market research companies now use this data by ‘scraping’ the web to obtain detailed examples of the sentiment relating to particular issues, brands, products, and services. Datafication of speech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. No company has more value control points than Google, which spans advertising, e-commerce, social media, video and mobile, as well as a full suite of hardware products. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business.

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Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2015

The explosion of self-reporting on social media has led us to provide very intimate details of ourselves. Many market research companies now use this data by ‘scraping’ the web to obtain detailed examples of the sentiment relating to particular issues, brands, products, and services. Datafication of speech.

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Social Media Research Examples Commerce 102

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data.

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IBM IBM Social Media Commerce 75

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This month we are going to take a deeper dive into one of the easiest ways to measure online social media efforts – through Google analytics. Come join Social Media Club – Los Angeles on Tuesday, Feb. Erica Forrette, Online Marketing / E-commerce with a stealth startup (moderator) www.linkedin.com/in/ericaforrette. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Social media is a huge resource for entrepreneurs. Sadly, too many entrepreneurs still think social media is only for play, rather than work. They don’t yet realize the low-cost potential for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, direct marketing and e-commerce. A different message everywhere is no message.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

IT Departments and Web Teams are not synonymous. Web Teams are necessary to running websites and applications. Then, there are the creative peoples that help make the Web Team’s work stand out among others. They sometimes must communicate with the Web Team, but this is not always the case. Responsibilities.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

E-Commerce: Nasty Gal. Social Media: Snapchat. Representing Southern California industries ranging from movies, TV, web, music, social media, video games, and more, Digital LA’s reach includes more than 40,000 people.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. No company has more value control points than Google, which spans advertising, e-commerce, social media, video and mobile, as well as a full suite of hardware products. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 14, 2018

Ford’s recently acquired unit Autonomic , which co-created the automaker’s Transportation Mobility Cloud (TMC), inked a deal Tuesday to partner with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

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