socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. Nick Hedges: We have a pretty competitive space, so there are a number of players. Where we really want to focus, is on product. We believe, if a customer is put in front of a product oriented business, everything else takes are of itself.

Google 113

Google Santa Monica Networking Software 113

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP? Louis and Atlanta.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP.com? Louis and Atlanta.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We have been smart about how to make investments in our business, and when we jump into a new category or vertical. We spent time going out there and really talking to customers, doing primary research, and have our customers actually help us build our products. I think for us, the question is if we are doing things fast enough.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

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. We're enabling people with access to the channel, to add energy monitoring to their products.

Startup 140

Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

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

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. They had interviewed telecom operators, handset manufacturers and corporate buyers. They just define their category tightly enough that they win it.

Statistics 415

Statistics Startup Report Research 415

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. There are also a few influencers in the Product lifecycle.

Advertising 91

Advertising Media News Content 91

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately.

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. What is your business model?

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.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TechZulu caught up with co-founder Calvin Schemanski chat about their upcoming launch, their product and why Long reviews suck. 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. Any competition? What is myfab5? Any funding raised?

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We also provide production support, and we're also very proactive in monitoring items that might affect them, supporting the specific versions of software they are running. Our open source powers Hadoop, Jetty powers Google--if you look at our community site, the list of products that use use is exhaustive.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100