Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

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Product Training Software Review Technical Review 94

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

In the IAB study that revealed the graph above, brand advertisers indicated that their number one objective in online advertising was “creating awareness&# followed by “creating purchase intent&# or “likelihood to recommend&# the product. Yet these seem to be the least effective attributes of banner advertising.

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Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

We spoke with CEO Darren Marble to learn more about why analytics are important to the modern film-maker, and how the company is helping. The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience.

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Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

We chatted with Alan about the company, the process of taking a new, genetic test to market, and his experience taking research from the University of Southern California and University of Utah and commercializing that research. Alan Horsager: We are an epigenetics data company. How did you decide to turn this into a company?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

In short the board is there to represent the interest of all shareholders (big & small) of the company and all other stakeholders (debt, creditors, employees, etc.). The board’s job is to review the company’s financial performance and strategy and help provide counsel to the executive team.

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Tips Slides Startup Technical Review 212

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

They bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products. Tell us what their life is like without your product – how they struggle. Tell us about the breakthrough they’ll have when they’re using your product. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen.

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Slides Startup Conference Writing 399

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial Angel screening. Build a prototype product.

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Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. Throughout the 90′s the PC became much more popular in corporate environments, so companies began to replace dumb terminals with PCs.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

While the web based version of Facebook has an abundance of display banners and advertisements littering every page, the mobile version has nothing of the sort. But even Facebook admitted in their SEC filings that this was a weak solution and that they don’t currently generate any meaningful revenue from the use of Facebook mobile products.

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Netflix Blogging Mobile Advertising 191

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. Anyone, including well-healed, Big Dumb Companies, could offer state-of-the-art technical support for free. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Custom Customer Technical Support Startup 162

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Yet according to the latest data from Gust (formerly AngelSoft), only about 3 out of 100 companies who initiate the formal request process actually get funded. The Gust Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. Free trials don’t count.

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Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

One for each of the main Hero Screens you have in your application. A Hero Screen is defined as a major application screen, from which additional screens will branch out. User Role Examples: UR – Sally Jennings: Sally is a 25 year-old account representative working for an Austin, Texas start-up company.

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Marketing Screening Social Network Startup 84

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Digital Media was an obvious theme because it’s one in which LA (where I’m based) and NY (where I spend a lot of time) have strong assets, companies and management teams. So my strategy was to focus on technology heavy companies who could bring measurability and performance to inefficient parts of the digital media landscape.

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Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Enter the person’s name and company domain. It integrates with 600+ customer relationship management systems (CRMs), marketing automation tools, and landing page builders. This software features a set of tools dedicated to helping you host flawless and productive webinars every step of the way. Pricing: $9/user/month.

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Tool Startup Help Template 79

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Younity’s new mobile product lets you bypass that hassle while offering several other benefits. With cloud based backup solutions, users must place inexplicit trust in the company that is storing their data. The mobile screen displays an organized list of music, videos, files data and search.

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Mobile Media Screening Software 98

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

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News Advertising Press Sites 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Yet according to the latest data from AngelSoft , only about 3 out of 100 companies who initiate the formal request process actually get funded. The AngelSoft Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. Build a prototype product.

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Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I quietly watched their success from the sidelines and kept spending time with and telling the CEO, Scott Lahman, that I wanted to invest in his next company.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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Startup Tips Web Platform 233

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. TV of the future will not always have linear stories. Gangnam Style Meets Torso TV.

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Startup Media Content Platform 380

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

One for each of the main Hero Screens you have in your application. A Hero Screen is defined as a major application screen, from which additional screens will branch out. User Role Examples: UR – Sally Jennings: Sally is a 25 year-old account representative working for an Austin, Texas start-up company.

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Marketing Screening Social Network Email 53

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.&# Will they? The partner you saw is probably sitting on 5-6 boards which means he or she will be busy helping existing portfolio companies. They have probably seen 4-5 new companies this week minimum.

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Venture Capital Startup Email News 277

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. But having different funds available for different stages of one’s company is actually a really good thing. DEAL OF THE WEEK: Gilt Groupe – We both admired this company.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

Already on that plateau are products like the commercial jet airliner, which hasn’t changed much since Boeing introduced the 747 in 1970. The company might be planning something splashy for 2017, the 10th anniversary of the original iPhone. And what does this portend for the future of mobile interfaces? Or rather, her future offspring.

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Software Review Screening Design Mobile 40

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

But the request this time was different: could we urgently help make realistic screen displays for a big Hollywood science fiction movie that was just about to start shooting? Well, in our company unusual issues eventually land in my inbox, and so it was with this one. We’ve got a list of alien landing sites; what’s the pattern?

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Hollywood Startup Screening Writing 81

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

It’s a promotional video for a technology company. We’re no strangers to GumGum ( we’ve covered their company before ) and they’re a huge part of Silicon Beach’s roster of startup highlights. Ophir gives us a quick refresher into the company’s core competencies. ” Wait, what?

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Technical Review Advertising Google Screening 76

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The agency advised women and their doctors not to use screening tests that claim to detect ovarian cancer. —One cancer screening test got positive news from a federal agency. Results from the … Next Page » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Pricing Startup News Screening 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2012

Some entrepreneurs seem to think that their product pitch is also their investor pitch. I outlined what investors expect to see in another article “ Limit an Investor Pitch to 10 Pages and 10 Minutes.” The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?” Lead with facts, but skip the details.

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Tips Slides Technical Review Startup 97

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. I’m used to that refrain.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

Founders are understandably very passionate about their product and startup. Early-stage founders want to say their company has the potential to be a billion-dollar company to grab the investor’s attention. Unless you’re asked if you think you’re going to be a billion-dollar company, I wouldn’t say it.

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Tips Help Slides Technical Review 70

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Verizon , Monster Products , MerchLabs , HIRED , Instart Logic , Zeel , Shootly , Move Loot , Microsoft , American Laser Company , Zirx , DoorDash , Drizly. Green Way Labs develops high-performance cleaning products that are 100% non-toxic. Their distribution footprint consists of: Over 400 million Page Likes on Facebook.

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Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Companies like Direct TV, X-Box and Orange have incorporated Twitter into new viewing dashboards. After casting was announced, the winners and the celebrities kept fans up to date with daily insights of the behind the scenes action via their Facebook pages preceding show’s production debut.

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2016

The terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels, Istanbul, Dhaka, and so many other places testify to the unchecked, virus-like spread of ISIS-inspired jihadism, which is itself a product of social breakdown in the Middle East. Hint: more face to face, less screen time.).

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Social Media High Tech Media Organization 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. As we know, developers always give their product a code name.

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Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2013

Saturday evening, the night before software was to be submitted, the first and third floors of ROC were filled with people clustered into small groups all staring intently at their computer screens. Microsoft , MySpace , WIX and Nokia all joined the Sponsors list by providing funds and products to distribute as awards.

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UCLA Ideas Yahoo Competition 96

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Just so you know I work directly with Nanea and her arrival last year at TextPlus as President & COO has been transformational for the company. Nanea Reeves has a storied career in senior leadership roles at technology companies. Here are some things we discussed: User experience focused product management.

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Technical Review Blogging RSS Organization 315

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

View Staff Page. It’s not because the statuesque pair wants to give Armie Hammer a run for his money on the silver screen. Balderdash Developers Log(n) Consultants RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers. Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A.

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