Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Have you noticed how many web apps and content have turned into subscription services during the last several years? Call it the Netflix effect. The massive shift in revenue models in recent years. Application developers once considered their products as licensed in what would closely be allied to a single sale. A buyer’s bonus.

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Xconomy

MAY 2, 2018

If you’ve already liberated yourself from a cable subscription in favor of streaming video services over the Internet, you’re parcelling out your dollars to get the content you want most from services such as Netflix, Hulu, and N.B.A. League Pass.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

At SGN we've seen steady revenue growth and we are a profitable company. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year? Yet a tiny 13 person company called Instagram, leveraged the massive growth of mobile to create a new social network. Or Tapes and CDs?

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Combining the theme of holiday shopping with Southern California's technology industry, here are eight electronic gifts from local companies to add to your shopping list this season. The company's all- in-one Play:3 lets users control their music wirelessly, and stream from your music library, music services, or radio stations.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. Michele Ruiz: BiasSync provides a solution for companies, state and federal agencies, school districts, and organizations to assess and manage unconscious bias in the workplace. What is BiasSync?

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

We caught up with Pluto TV's co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, Ilya Pozin , to hear about how the company started, and its path to acquisitionas well as to get some tips on startup success. I had always kind of been a computer nerd, and had been starting companies in high school. That's the idea that sparked Pluto TV.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

Companies like Google, Facebook, eBay, Xbox Live, Hulu, and Netflix would have been seriously hurt as they hemorrhaged dissatisfied customers who would likely refuse to pay extra to just bid on select items on eBay, or watch “House of Cards” on Netflix. Companies like Etsy and eBay aside.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 21, 2016

A silver lining has emerged in the wake of the massive and well-publicized denial-of-service attack launched less than two months ago by hackers using millions of IoT devices to cripple the websites of major companies like Amazon, Netflix and Twitter. Even some in Washington, such as U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web. So I’ve spent the last few years checking out companies that are trying to solve for this problem. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Banner Ads. Oh, sacred cow.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

We spoke with Daniel Altman, the CEO of the company, to learn more. Tell us a little bit about your background and the company? Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash. What's the business model behind Laffster?

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. We talked about how the metaphor for finding information might be changing and why large companies such as HP and Microsoft are betting so big on this industry. AppDynamics.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

No fly by night startup -- the company is backed by the founders of Skype -- we talked with COO Stephen Sesar about how FreedomPop can provide free wireless Internet, the firm's expansion plans, and how the company hopes to turn the telecom industry on its head. They're fantastic backers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

If you think about our behavior on AOL in the early to mid 90’s, people never really left AOL to go on the world-wide-web. Having an all-native interface that’s overlaid on top of the world-wide-web is the ultimate ambition for an internet company. By that I mean: Let me explain. There’s no reason to leave Facebook’s app at all.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. How is the company funded and backed? He joined Redpoint after we founded the company, but before we had gotten the money. Hark is backed by Redpoint, and happens to be co-founded by Fouad.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Online text book rental service.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Team Apptentive attended both companies’ conferences in San Francisco, and we caught a glimpse into how the two platforms are evolving, and what it means for developers and consumers alike. Customer experience is a high priority for both companies. Here are three of the most important takeaways: 1.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We caught up with Zach James and Rich Raddon , co-founders of MOVIECLIPS, to learn more about the company and also hear about the firm's funding round. How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now? A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

But the word on the street is that very few, if any, of the video-only companies are making money. Hulu is for TV what NetFlix is for movies, but its growth has been dropping off sharply. There is now even a search engine, called Clicker , which is geared to find the online video and Web TV content to be able to watch it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Our approach is a little unusual in that we try to back a team early, then continue to invest along the lifecycle of the company. Instead of picking a stage, say seed rounds and A rounds, and investing in a variety of companies as they pass through that stage, we take companies that we like and support them through each of those rounds.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing. TVSync is not alone in developing ACR.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2018

If you’re a city dweller, and unhappy with the big company that provides your Internet connection, chances are good there’s a scrappy little outfit that thinks it can do better for you. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. So it is unsurprising to see companies like Sony, Logitech & Intel partner with Google. Smart companies will figure this out early. We pause.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, the perpetrator overwhelms a target company by flooding their service with so much phony traffic that their service is unable to serve authentic requests. Friday’s attack affected Netflix, Twitter, Spotify, AWS, Airbnb, Reddit, GitHub and many more companies at once.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I. [ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2019

Yet in 2018, perceptions about these dominant companies often reflected uneasiness and doubt—and for some, so did their stock performance. Some of these platform companies, taken together, now have a shared nickname: “FAANG,” which. The market caps of some of the most successful tech titans reach as high as $1 trillion.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

It’s a Netflix for business cards and receipts. Let me explain why this company had such an impact on my life. For $9 bucks a month I send in all my business cards and receipts in a prepaid blue envelope, they promptly scan and accurately enter in all the info from each card for me to easily view on their web based dashboard.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio. The result is a 2Mbyte royalty free plug-in that is remarkably easy to integrate with other web-based applications. Any user stats at the moment?

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

. ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney.

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