Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? ” In the post they list four charts with data showing how Christmas day is a huge driver of downloads for mobile applications (obviously because many people get new smartphones for the first time). Final example.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

The new design comes as many in the industry have pointed to a new, competitive era, due to the rise of mobile platforms, tablets, and a move away from the traditional, desktop web experience where eHarmony made its mark.

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eHarmony Malibu Santa Monica Design 178

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer OpenX Technologies said this morning that it has launched a new product, the OpenX SSP (Supply Side Platform). openx mobile advertising auction network server' OpenX said that such customers as YP, TVGuide.com, and the New York Observer are already using the product.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2013

What''s one of the hottest, fastest growing mobile apps out there out of a Southern California startup? No, not Snapchat--it''s Tinder --a mobile app and service which lets users rate people nearby them, and if the feeling is mutual, connect them. But, there wasn''t a platform out there dedicated and effective to meeting new people.

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Mobile Southern California News Snapchat 245

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm announced the finalists for the firm's business plan competition, with four early stage companies spread across Europe/Israel, China, India, and North America. Tags: plan business startup winners competition qprize qualcomm. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. -New Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I wanted a smart NorCal investor who had done more mobile investments than I had and Jon Callaghan had very relevant relationships & experience. I have other VCs that I love to work with but through a combination of desired geography, no known competitive investments and also Dustin’s preferences we settled on these two.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. think Apple.

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Startup Media Content Platform 380

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. Brett Rossman: We have a platform we''ve built, and which we are constantly evolving called Magneto.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2012

What's the best way to share competitive intelligence and company announcements with your employees?

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News Company Companies San Diego 150

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

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers. We spoke with Ben about how Burstly is now creating a company to help mobile developers create, develop, distribute, and monetize their apps. The way we go about that is different than the competition.

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Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Journey is a platform to build data gathering mobile apps much faster than would traditionally have been possible. That is the problem Embark Mobile is set to solve across the world beginning in Africa. Journey was created by our company, Embark Mobile (or “Embark” for short). Why the name?

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Mobile Platform JavaScript Web 65

socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2012

We sat down earlier this month to talk with Josh Yguado , President of SGN (www.sgn.com), to learn more about the importance of being nimble in the game market, the company's platform, and hear more about its recent move into real money gaming. SGN is the social and mobile gaming developer headed by former MySpace founder Chris Dewolfe.

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Platform Mobile Startup Develop 147

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. Bart Molenda: Close5 is a mobile based app that makes it very simple to buy and sell, in particular in your area. However, classifies have not yet caught up with mobile.

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San Diego Mobile Marketing Sites 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The wind, he said, “refers to the ever-growing desire for quality by mobile gamers.” ” Breaking the wave, on the other hand, entails TiMi applying new development tools to building high-budget, high-quality AAA mobile games. But TiMi contended that these platforms are not essential to a game’s success.

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Tips Activision Mobile Tool 149

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 20, 2011

What will be the hot games and gaming platforms in 2011 and beyond? How can you stay ahead in an increasingly competitive marketplace? What trends will be shaping the games industry?

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Conference Press Hollywood Competition 124

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market. Wes Brodsky: One of the benefits of having competition, is that the Stubhubs, Tickets.com, and Razorgator's have all solved that problem. Describe SaveFans and what it does? It looks the same in ticketing.

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Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Activity 253

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

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Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

See the Internet and now the mobile ecosystems are one, big competitive playground where globally some of the smartest minds are focused on how to make money by driving user growth better, faster and cheaper than others.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms.

Develop 138

Develop Development Platform Mobile 138

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

Even as Quibi , the short form video platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo , reportedly looks to raise another $1 billion , rival service Fiction Riot continues to steadily build out its pipeline of short form serials. “It’s up to startups like us to address the grassroots movement,” for content creators, Esola says.

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Services Report Netflix Content 167

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked, Cloud-based enterprise platform for deal management and investor reporting, Wednesday announced a new suite of enterprise features in a move to take transactions mobile. Jackson added, “Their pricing and technology are hold-overs from the 1990s—it goes to show how they have been shielded from competition for too long.

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Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash I was listening to Dan Primack’s podcast on Pro Rata and he was interviewing Senator Klobucher who is now publicly and vocally speaking out against Uber purchasing Grubhub and has tried to mobilize against this. Enter ChowNow. What data do I have to make the case?

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SaaS Customer Custom Technical Review 242

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren also wanted regulation in place that would block companies making over $25 billion that operate as social media or search platforms or marketplaces from owning companies that also sell services on those marketplaces. One issue is do we need regulation on the full platform companies. — Balaji S. .

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Startup Chief Technology Officer Social Media 144

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. I invested in what I believe is the largest free & group texting platform in the country – TextPlus. Yes, the competition going forward will be strong. It’s about 10 minutes long. But that doesn’t make group messaging a company.

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Company Companies Gogii Google 295

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? If you''re familiar with Shszam, the mobile app which scans and tells you who an artist is, we''ve created something like Shazam for the real world.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

40% of all of YouTube is viewed on mobile devices and of high-quality content I believe it is between 60-70% based on my insider data. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. YouTube as a platform in which to build your entire business is naive. post-script.

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

As people consume Twitter on mobile clients they are almost definitionally not doing so on Twitter.com. Immediately after the acquisition we held meetings with all of the integrated CMS vendors and highlighted to them which bits we were going to make our core platform and which bits we weren’t planning to offer ourselves.

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Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. Marty Zwilling.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. 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. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. Think it’s purely evil to fend off competition? I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. It’s a great experiment for me.

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Blogging Social Media Writing Startup 250

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

We give way 500Mb of free data to all of our users, and users can also early additional, free minutes for connecting to their friends on the platform and participating on partner offers and promotions. That's both voice and data, through a mobile application, and are also now looking to go into homes. That will expand over time.

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

The principal drivers of this re-imagination are the hyper-growth of the mobile Internet, consumer-controlled commerce, the rise of big data, and “globality.” And now we have made the largest cycle of all – the move to mobile Internet computing. Mobile commerce is up 552% in one year (measuring cyber-Mondays).

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Mobile Commerce Software Review Yammer 156

socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. To start, why don't you describe how your mobile ads work?

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Startup Mobile Culver City Los Angeles 177