SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. Tell me a bit about your background. That's great.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

In this age of relationships, you, the entrepreneur, are a very important element of your new brand, and it’s never too early to start marketing the value of your expertise, insights and ideas. After a few blogs about your concept, the comments better match your passion, or it’s time to rethink your idea.

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Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. My experience has proven that even some well known companies are under-whelming in this department.

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Metrics Startup SEO Custom 346

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. Very impressed with the quality of each. This week is a no-brainer on whether to attend or not.:) See you there!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

From the day after we sold the company until today I felt it was important that I not comment too much publicly about online video even though I continued to work actively in the sector and made five more investments. The initial period of the agreement has ended so I wanted to get back to talking about online video. And Vidme.

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Content Snapchat Platform SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Nail on the head.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

This site is being sponsored by the Technology Council of Southern California and my company TechEmpower. You can read more about the technology in the post: Topic Hubs. So you can see that Entrepreneur (60) LinkedIn (15) Metrics (16) SEO (15) Company (141) are all considered highly relevant to the term "startup."

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Whats Hot Menu. what’s hot?

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio: If you're like the average woman, you only wear about 20 percent of your wardrobe. How did you come up with the idea of handling all the shipping details? I've really gotten an in-depth education about what women want when buying and selling online. That's because there isn't a product tailored to them.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

if you get some value out of the notes consider checking out his company or Twitter feed). Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. Thank you. (if

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. We caught up with Skyler to hear about HeyTutor, which already has 25 employees and is growing rapidly. HeyTutor is about connecting people hyper-locally. What is HeyTutor? Here's the reason why. That's a great question.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

companies should… focus on building amazing products. I recently spoke with Brad about his approach to guerilla marketing and how he instills eclectic marketing tactics in Foundry Group’s portfolio companies. Chris is the CEO of Gnip , a Foundry Group portfolio company. Foundry Group Goes Guerilla.

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Marketing Blogging Startup Venture Capital 233

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas. Tony is currently Founder/CEO for Eventify, an LA-based startup creating a venue marketplace, and Visible Factors, an SEO consulting company.

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SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Dmitri Leonov: We built a distribution business for equipment for the spa industry, and have had 10,000 client over that time, but in the last few years, we've really focused on talking to spa customers about their needs in the market. What's different about our business model is to bring them customers.

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Template Beverly Hills Startup SEM 124

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

We sat down with Alec the other day to hear more about the company and what it's try to do. I immediately started at a company called Abrams artist industry, which I subsequently ran for nearly seven years. Talk about some of the deals you have with brands and promotions? Can you talk about what you've seen?

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Hollywood Startup Sites SEO 252

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

Most of the people you would want as co-founders are now cruising the relevant blogs for ideas and partners. More and more, employees work for people they respect, rather than companies. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well. Find potential partners. Cultivate early customers.

Startup 101

Startup Blogging Writing Google 101

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 15, 2015

Give them all the tools they will need to succeed at your company. Make a list of important ideas and items for your business. You’ll accomplish so much more when you’re focused on the ideas that will take your business into the future. It’s a good idea to keep in touch with your people. Tap into SEO.

SEO 40

SEO Search Engine Optimization Tips Software Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

Most of the people you would want as co-founders are now cruising the relevant blogs for ideas and partners. More and more, employees work for people they respect, rather than companies. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well. Find potential partners. Cultivate early customers.

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Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 In my experience, this has been really hard to do successfully.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" And in the spirit of how to get your ideas to happen, they asked me to talk about entrepreneurship and the myriad ways you can "be your own boss." It turns out that there are four distinct types of entrepreneurial organizations; s mall businesses , scalable startups , large companies and social entrepreneurs.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Tell me a bit about your background. My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. So I obsess about ways to iterate and make it better.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. No need to make the assumption that you will need a rich uncle or an angel investor for every idea you come up with. Sales and marketing costs.

Startup 102

Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM Social Network 102

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Since then it has become much harder to find people and while we are talking about hiring relatively small numbers of people, the typical sources of candidates dont seem to be working.

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Los Angeles CTO Hire CTO Coach Develop 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. Take a look at other sites: [link] But the overall idea is to provide branded search in order to get merchandise from your artist, star, etc. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 I actually think this is a pretty innovative model.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

All you hear about these days is Mobile. Companies are spending more time and money on their mobile sites than their full-fledged website. I bet there is a lot that would surprise you about the mobile world. Things you don’t read about in the Wall St Journal. Doesn’t it seem like its every person you see has an iPhone?

Mobile 82

Mobile Search Engine Optimization SEO Startup 82

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. No need to make the assumption that you will need a rich uncle or an angel investor for every idea you come up with. Sales and marketing costs.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM 94

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We talked with Billy last week about the firm, and what it's trying to do: What's the whole idea behind Kijubi? The idea there, is you sift through brochures, and call them to see if they are still there, and then make a reservation. The idea was to have tent poles up in the most important leisure markets.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Part of the discussion around this is the talk about the founder who only got $83M (as compared to $3xxM for the other founders) who bailed out early and choose to go back to school. But even if you came to me with that idea, Im not sure I would have bought it. The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision. Why did YouTube win?

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Blogging is an important way to build an audience and also drive SEO traffic. What should you blog about? analysts, journalists, potential employees) and blog about what you want to communication with them. But I try to be respectful about it.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Most of the people you would want as co-founders are now cruising the relevant blogs for ideas and partners. More and more, employees work for people they respect, rather than companies. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well. Find potential partners. Cultivate early customers.

Blogging 93

Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew spoke to us to give us a better idea of what the company offers and why it was started. What's the idea behind Zubican? What's your background, and how did you decide to start the company? It was the third week of December 2006, and I was involved with a biodiesel company. companies on the Internet.

SEO 100

SEO Advertising Gogii Tech Coast Angels 100

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. That's where the initial idea came for Gloss Network. What is Gloss Network? Now, it's obviously scarier, because the space is so crowded.

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Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. Normally, SEO is not cheap, and video is a very affordable way to boost your businesses search engine optimization, and help you to get discovered.

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2015

We spoke with co-founder David Kierzkowski and Agnes Kozera about the company, and how its technology and marketplace is enabling growth for both YouTubers and brands. Tell us about FameBit? Where are brands on the idea of YouTube today? And, you can do that at a fraction of the cost, doing that through us.

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Content Platform Startup Marketing 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

To get some up to speed, Rap Genius , as a team and company have upheld a reputation as anomalies in the tech world. More recently, they launched an iPhone app called Genius , which they say will be a cornerstone for the company’s future. We Spent a day with Rap Genius, and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next!

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