socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Those are our three biggest categories as far as sponsorship and readership. Is this competitive with Modern Mom? Lolita Carrico: I don't think it's competitive.

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. What does FutureDash do, and how do you fit into the home energy monitoring market?

Startup 140

Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We''re developing programming around our brands, such as Failarmy, and we also have a deal with Dick Clark Products to take Failarmy to the international market. Is there a lot of competition for the rights to all of that content? Lee Essner: That''s one of the competitive edges we have. One of thing we did, is we became a MCN.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: It was officially May 9 of 2012, when David and I and others within YP and AT&T decided that given where we were with AT&T, their core focus on wireless, we should figure out how to take the business out of AT&T, so that we would not be constrained on our investments, and we could go after markets in a more strategic way.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I think their number is a bit higher than that, but it also skews towards the lifestyle category--restaurants and retail. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. ON the other side, we had incredible high ranking search results when we were baked off against the competition. READ MORE>>.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Mimiboard beat ten other apps from Africa to be the best at the App demo competition held at the Nairobi Open Innovation Summit in May. Then you assign certain categories to it. People could add notes regarding whatever the category selection of the board determines. The methods of adding notes to this board are quite vast.

Advertising 91

Advertising Media News Content 91

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

The feedback primarily fell into three categories: better ways to discover new content, better organization tools and the option to have private collections. When we discussed the feedback we saw an opportunity to use our backgrounds in search and discovery to help us stand out from the competition. How do you Differ From Pinterest?

Organization 90

Organization Content Tool Blogging 90

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. We've really set out to solve the problem we saw, which is a vast category of travel information which is not aggregated well on the web. It's down in Laguna Beach.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

You can use myfab5 to share your foodie knowledge by ranking up to five of your favorite places for any food or drink related category (e.g. If you search for pizza on myfab5, not only will we show you the places that are recommended most for pizza, we will also show you what other categories each business is ranked highly in.

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We give them options and advice on the best course to reach their goals, such as responding quickly and getting to market faster. Where's the open source market nowadays--a few years ago, people were playing around with business models, how is yours working? It gives them an escalation path only dealing with us. So far so good.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. He noticed their extremely social tendencies and the potential of a very large market. We talk about all of this in the video. I love the concept.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292