InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. No matter how you end up on the front page of a major news site, getting there is just the first step.

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

He lived the philosophy that companies must be paranoid in order to survive, and continually disrupt their own markets to prevent overrun by competition. Make sure your teams are enabled to make timely decisions, as well as accountability for staying competitive in their domain. Foster a collaboration culture, rather than competition.

Competition 148

Competition Metrics Demand Customer 148

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2021

Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails. Here are six key reasons, from a business perspective: Direct competition is huge. This business suffers from what Paul Graham calls the ‘chicken and the egg problem‘ – no one wants to use a dating site with only a few users. The spend is still going up.

Sites 134

Sites Social Network Competition Networking 134

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. For people who haven't heard of ExtraBux, what is the site all about? Noah, thanks for the interview.

USC 207

USC CPC Sites Startup 207

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Both let dog owners specify their location, and when they're looking to go on vacation, and then lets those owners schedule and book stays, providing photos and text updates to owners via the site. READ MORE>>.

Competition 159

Competition Funding Los Angeles Capital 159

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Online job and career sites still seem to be in another decade, when it comes to both design--and user friendliness. Can a startup gain a foothold in the competitive market by designing the right UX and user experience to make a job and career site for everyone? Los Angeles-based Workpop (www.workpop.com) thinks so.

Design 174

Design Sites Cornerstone OnDemand Startup 174

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. The post HipTraveler | Taking Startup Competitions by Storm appeared first on TechZulu.

Competition 104

Competition Startup USC Southern California 104

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

That means starting your search through contract services sites, rather than conventional career hiring sites. Of course, as you work with contract players, explore the potential for a long-term relationship, and wait until your organization matures to pursue career positions.

Competition 168

Competition Startup Demand Training 168

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2013

The startup, headed by serial entrepreneur Matthew Graczyk, says its tool gives users access to all of the sites they''ve bookmarked on a single page, making it easier to save and navigate to a user''s favorite sites.

Tool 230

Tool Sites Competition Los Angeles 230

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

And the most logical one seemed to be “eyeballs” or number of unique monthly users finding their way to the site or registering for the service. And yet, users rave about the service, and spend long durations of time on the site. Once we had what we thought was the answer, in allowing for display advertising on these sites.

Metrics 296

Metrics Sites Advertising Web 296

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2018

According to the nonprofit, the deep sea off Kalamat, Greece, has been selected as the location for finalists teams to map, as part of the "Grand Prize" of the competition. The Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE is aimed at developing rapid, unmanned and high-resolution ocean exploration and discovery technology.

Sites 133

Sites Competition Los Angeles Technology 133

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. ” Me? Underbelly.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2012

A San Diego entrepreneur is getting the backing of GE to help develop the "Milk Jug of the Future", after winning a competition launched by product development site Quirky.

San Diego 160

San Diego Entrepreneur Competition Resource 160

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The site--which is owned by Los Angeles-based Oversee.net --said the barcode app lets users check online prices while shopping at brick and mortar retail stores. The app allows users to scan the UPC for a product, and then instantly see competitive pricing from online retailers.

Pricing 189

Pricing Oversee.net Competition Los Angeles 189

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Orange County-based DealPerk , the online daily deals site headed by Albert Ko, has been acquired by fellow daily deals site Screamin Daily Deals , based in San Juan Capistrano. Both DealPerk and Screamin Daily Deals compete in the highly competitive, and crowded, local deals business, which is led by companies like Groupon.

Orange County 157

Orange County Competition Sites Sales 157

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. Are sponsors interested in such highly targeted sites, rather than the broad reach? Do you find it's been more difficult to build up traffic for a more targeted site, or easier?

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

The new site goes head to head with Groupon, LivingSocial, and a slew of other imitators. OnSale was previously one of PC Mall's computer and electronics e-commerce sites; the site's home page is now dedicated to signing up email addresses of potential users. READ MORE>>.

Torrance 170

Torrance Commerce Startup Sites 170

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”. Do you see crowd-ranked lists as ultimately competitive or complimentary to traditional and curated search? We get referring site traffic.

Google 264

Google Organic Search Sites Startup 264

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In an interesting move, Saatchi Gallery , Saatchi Art , and Google+ said they are running a new prize competition to encourage the creation of "motion photography" -- better known to you and I as animated GIFs.

Social Media 210

Social Media Google Competition Los Angeles 210

Tech.Co

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are just five days left to enter the digital detox competition set up by Icelandic Yogurt company Siggi’s Dairy, which has pledged to give selected contestants $10,000 to spend an entire month “detoxing” without a smartphone or social media. Or appear as if you're in another country? Get a huge 86% off Surfshark with this special tech.co

Company 226

Company Companies Social Media Writing 226

socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

The Santa Monica-based company said that it has launched a next generation site, which it had codenamed "Malibu", to drive new growth and new members for the service. The new site and features run on desktop, tablets, and the iPhone; the company said an Android app should be available in coming months.

eHarmony 178

eHarmony Malibu Santa Monica Design 178

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Los Angeles-based DreamJobbing said this week that it has launched a new online site--and associated, television effort--which will give anyone a chance at a "dream job" by harnessing their social media and on-camera skills. shoes toms employment competition hollywood content video production television dream dreamjobbing' READ MORE>>.

Social Media 153

Social Media Hollywood Competition Entertainment 153

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

And the most logical one seemed to be “eyeballs” or number of unique users finding their way to the site or registering for the service. And yet, users rave about the service, and spend long durations of time on the site. Once we had what we thought was the answer, in allowing for display advertising on these sites.

Metrics 207

Metrics Sites Advertising Web 207

socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2009

In what might be some new competition for Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , the high profile ad optimization firm headed by Frank Addante, search engine giant Google told its advertisers late Wednesday that it will begin to offer similar capabilities in its AdSense program. Does Rubicon see Google entree into the market as competition?

Google 191

Google Advertising Santa Monica SoCalTech 191

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer.

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

You’ll have less competition. Competition is good, but – if there are hundreds of businesses out there that already have gotten to and penetrated this niche – you’re going to find it hard to get through the marketing noise. So, what other benefits are there to niche marketing? Here are just a few to consider….

Marketing 266

Marketing Advertising Resource Social Media 266

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2010

The foundtaion is claiing trademarke infringement, unfair competition and false advertising, and is seeking an injunction against use, deletion of references on its web site and materials, and damages for the use. Fashion Rocks is used by Conde Nast to promote New York's Fashion Week, under license from the Gross Family Foundation.

Advertising 182

Advertising Entertainment Media Competition 182

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? 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. . TechCrunch article.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2012

There are more than 10,000 people in Japan, and they're the third largest site behind Amazon and eBay, doing over 15 billion, with a 14 billon market cap in Japan. Neel Grover: We've been transforming the site and experience quite a bit. Is Amazon's marketplace the largest competition for what you're doing? to get us there.

Sites 210

Sites Commerce Pricing Product 210

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2010

Twitter said that third party ad networks are not necessarily looking to preserve the "unique user experience" of the site, and also said it came because it is looking to use its "Promoted tweets" to preserve the "integrity and relevance" of user timelines. Sean Rad, founder of Ad.ly, had yet to respond to requests for comments on the move.

Idealab 173

Idealab GRP Partners Advertising Pasadena 173

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

Local.com said the site will launch in Denver, Philadelphia, and Orange County at first, with 17 additional markets planned by the end of the year. Local.com enters an area with stiff competition from Groupon, LivingSocial, not to mention thousands of other local daily deal clones. READ MORE>>.

Orange County 164

Orange County Email Competition Mobile 164

socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2012

The firm said its service provides businesses with tools to generate and manage employee referrals, integrating such social sites as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and provides social gaming features such as a leaderboard to highlights referrals by employees. READ MORE>>.

Orange County 154

Orange County Competition Tool Design 154

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

OCTOBER 21, 2010

San Clemente-based Poptent , an online site for crowdsourced video content for advertisers, has raised $3M in a Series A investment round, it new investor has confirmed. According to Los Angeles-based MK Capital, it made the investment in Poptent, led by partner Yair Landau. The firm had previously been known as XLNTads.

Funding 150

Funding SoCalTech Advertising Hollywood 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The competition comes even as United Online appears to have been beating a quick retreat from that business, instead shifting users to Memory Lane, a new site which offers up actual, digitized high school yearbooks, nostalgic content, old magazine covers, and other products geared to a similar user base as Classmates.com.

Social Network 145

Social Network Startup Sites Competition 145

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

That means that the site now allows users to sign-up and have their content personalized based on their interests. What's new now is that the site allows you to sign up and provide your Twitter and LinkedIn information. The site will look at your activity on these sites and the content of what you share.

CTO Hire 175

CTO Hire Newsletter Content Sites 175

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

Consumers on the site have complained that Los Angeles should "stop obstructing positive progress", that just because a business model is changing "it doesn''t make it OK to use the legal system to shut them down" and that cab drivers in LA "are rude and almost always reluctant to accept credit cards".

Legalzoom 221

Legalzoom Los Angeles Glendale Technical Review 221