Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

We dive into the very beginnings of IconFinder, where Martin’s personal need led him to start the site, to how he was able to fit working on IconFinder into his school projects and all the way to where the site is now and where they are heading. Can you briefly describe IconFinder.com? It’s basically Google for icons.

Design 65

Design Web Design Google Develop 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2021

Today you can start a new web site business for as little as $100, produce cheap smart phone apps, or lead the effort to tap the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. The tighter the loop, the greater the value captured and the stronger the competitive differentiation.

Startup 162

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 162

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

Resource 159

Resource Startup Incubator Seed Funding 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

What most people don’t realize is, according to recent statistics , despite top positioning, only a quarter of sites selected comes from paid search. For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Cost per action (CPA).

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PPC SEO Paid Search Search Engine Optimization 154

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2010

In the spirit of highlighting new startup opportunities, I think we need some new companies who can track down and remove unwanted content on the web. The legal hiring market is very competitive.” As I have discussed in previous articles, social networking sites like Facebook are now the most frequently used websites on the Internet.

Content 49

Content Web Technical Review Innocal 49

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage.

Software Review 238

Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward. million site visits in October alone. Gumroad homepage.

Startup 210

Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 210

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Develop viral content. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working.

Marketing 107

Marketing Invest SEM Startup 107

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Every school recognizes the power of “hands-on” work to help you develop your own ideas into a business. Build a web site and incorporate while in school. He learned quickly that several pivots were required for business, legal, and customer acceptance reasons. Take advantage of free startup programs and mentors.

Entrepreneur 157

Entrepreneur Mentor Class Resource 157

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; Real-time search engine.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , which develops 3D avatar technology, said today that it has partnered with video game company GGL Global Gaming, to provide free game content on its web site. According to Big Stage, the deal will allow users on the site to insert the firm's 3D avatars into game photos and videos.

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Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures USC Social Network 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc.

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Activity Conference Press Case Study 164

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The following is a list and description of a few of the sessions: Real-time Everything with SignalR (2 hour lab)SignalR, the latest addition to the ASP.NET stack, provides real-time capabilities to developers without requiring massive transitions in practice or imposing a huge learning curve. It’s OK you can fight back.

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Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

The prize, which is looking to award $10M to a team which develops a 100 MPG, super fuel-efficient vehicle, said that among the 22 teams which have registered for the prize are Idealab-backed Aptera Motors, based in Carlsbad, and Santa Ana-based Kinetix Motors. The X PRIZE competition will begin in 2009, with winners awarded in 2010.

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Southern California Idealab SoCal Google 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo, is planning some direct competition to Michael Arrington's technology blog empire, TechCrunch , according to a report today from the Guardian. According to the report, Calacanis is developing a property called Launch , which will focus on deep analysis of companies.

Mahalo 124

Mahalo Web 2.0 Blogging Technical Review 124

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. However, from my understanding you might actually be the largest consumer website using "semantic web" technology – can you explain how that works? “In

Google 264

Google Organic Search Sites Startup 264

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. I also read them “my speech” which goes something like this: . ‘If

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition. I was a development executive and independent producer. It ran in April of 2008.

Journal 187

Journal USC News Startup 187

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

Incubator 87

Incubator Startup Resource Seed Funding 87

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 18, 2011

“Well the people who really care about us are Internet retailers (because) we help them figure out what incentive they should offer each of the shoppers on their site. 4) Did I read correctly that you were part of the original development team for Oracle Financials? Were you 12 years old at the time? The number one thing is trust.

eHarmony 204

eHarmony Media Oracle Commerce 204

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

Incubator 106

Incubator Startup Help Resource 106

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

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.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Develop viral content. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working.

Marketing 67

Marketing SEM Startup Blogging 67

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. How did you end up starting the site? So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time.

Study 252

Study Startup Design Tips 252

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

In that network, we bring in content from all over the web. Unlike anywhere else on the web, you can then respond directly when you see that comment. What's your background and how did you start the site? That means the product we had to create took even longer developing, at far greater cost. READ MORE>>.

Social Network 239

Social Network Startup Networking Content 239

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Develop viral content. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working.

Marketing 99

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup SEM 99

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. They have a number of mini-websites that they run for various products and campaigns and they cannot know which of those sites will need resources at any given point. A good example is the shoemaker Puma.

Cloud Computing 212

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. What really differentiates us from our competition is the data set we have. Our competition doesn't have that data. It was a pain.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

Incubator 98

Incubator Startup Help Resource 98

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. There''s lots of technology development behind what you do - can you talk about that? how does your company stay on top of all of that?

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2015

You can start a new web site business on the Internet for as little as $100, with cheap smart phone apps, new technology innovations, or tapping the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. Upgrade, reuse, or recycle every product.

Startup 100

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2018

Today you can start a new web site business for as little as $100, produce cheap smart phone apps, or lead the effort to tap the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. The tighter the loop, the greater the value captured and the stronger the competitive differentiation.

Resource 66

Resource Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Develop viral content. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required. This means spending more money on search marketing (SEM) to make it look like the buzz is working.

Marketing 95

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us. What's the idea behind the site?

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Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140