Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

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. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. You get a lot of traffic — not always results.

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Activity Conference Press Case Study 164

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

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Startup Training Services Writing 174

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

You should also use these forums to test and hone your solution idea for general acceptance, before your risk your own money and investor funds to build a shippable version. Anticipate and establish supporting social media accounts. It’s easier, cheaper, and quicker to pivot at this stage rather than later.

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Product Entrepreneur Technical Advisors Technical Review 127

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

PayDivvy provides a smarter way to manage bills by allowing you to pay, send and share bills…simply and socially…via web or mobile. PayDivvy , unveiled today at the Finovate Conference in San Francisco, was conceived a few years ago while Mike Melby was attending the Wharton School of Business.

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Conference Orange County Technical Review Software Review 96

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

However, it's a very large market--we peg it at around $11 billion a year, and some estimate it to be as big as $20 billion a year, including scientific journals, academic journals, scientific societies, and conferences. We provide rich media to the STM market. That's what SciVee is focused on. Can you describe how that works?

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Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

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. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. You get a lot of traffic – not always results.

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Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

In fact, I said as much in September 09 at a Twitter conference in LA on a panel that Guy Kawasaki was moderating. First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter.

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Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. A couple of weeks ago, I met the infamous @jeffpulver, co-founder of Vonage, author of the Pulver Order , and creator of the #140 Conference (the premier conference on Twitter and the real-time Internet.) I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time!

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Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. A couple of weeks ago, I met the infamous @jeffpulver, co-founder of Vonage, author of the Pulver Order , and creator of the #140 Conference (the premier conference on Twitter and the real-time Internet.) I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time!

Social Network 180

Social Network Networking Yahoo Social Media 180

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. You could just outspend. There is a much better technique.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Network with hundreds over delicious four course dinner followed by panel on Attracting Venture Capital, and Top Trends for Social Media, Mobile Apps and Consumer Devices. Our very own Amanda Coolong will be moderating the Attracting Venture Capital, Social TV, Social Media and Mobile Trends panel. Want to Sponsor?

Social Media 84

Social Media Newsletter Mobile Startup 84

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web. Poogling events/webinar, radio show expansion and social media relationships and events. Love the minis!

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur. The Dry Run.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Luckily, I had always been a “hands-on” professional, and I had learned the pragmatics of people leadership, marketing, management tools, and funding. Use social media for more visibility. Startups need outside experts who can do the work, as well as relate to the challenges of a new business.

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Social Media Software Review Customer Custom 56

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. Coincident has a bigger vision than developing this technology just for the big media companies and ad agencies.

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money?

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

My suggestion is to get some of the angel groups – notorious for slow decision-making and hat passing – and pool their money into a small fund structure of say $5-10 million. LA has the annual Monty Conference. Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Press San Diego 378

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2015

Especially for small or medium-sized businesses, most of your time, effort, and potential reward are all going to be web-based, and getting your digital marketing strategy right is often a sink-or-swim proposition. It’s difficult enough to get any traction at all on social media or PPC ads, and even harder to maximize ROI on them.

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PPC Marketing Social Media Startup 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” He built & IPOd Demand Media.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Introducing Bitcoinference | A Decentralized Conference , hosted by illustrious startup accelerator, 500 Startups. Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos. The ultimate plan?

Startup 104

Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

From local Los Angeles tech events to worldwide conferences and expos. The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, provides a strategically significant opportunity to make media and business run better. Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0 Are you interested?

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games Statistics Yahoo 40

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Cogi (www.cogi.com) recently launched a phone-based service which allows users to transcribe conference calls and meetings. What are the barriers to entry here--it seems like there have been a number of web startups who are doing some aspects of this--if not conference calls, at least transcribing voicemails?

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Santa Barbara Startup Software Review Technical Review 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2009

At the LeWeb conference, German startup Club Cooee showed off its desktop 3D instant messaging service as part of the Microsoft BizSpark program. The founders, who come from gaming, decided to apply their knowledge of the space to IM in a way that would put social media in a more personal, 3D environment.

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Seed Funding Social Media Conference Equity 40

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. What were those and how is that changing now given how things are changing in social media? I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with helping build Huddlewoo, Ferres is building a web marketing agency called Ciplex and also runs a company called Creative Priority that helps web marketing companies become more successful. Any funding yet? We have received seed funding from a friend and it is personally funded. What Inspired You?

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Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications.

Company 111

Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Highlights included Tyler Crowley (of Sqweal and the Launch conference), Myke Armstrong and William Barnes’ presentation of Votoboth and how it’s not about badges anymore, but county fair ribbons (keep this in mind as you gamify your product).

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . startups.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Paul Breummer, Search Engine Land. Looking Ahead to the “Social-Local-Mobile” Strategy.

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Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. It filed for an IPO on August 6th. LowerMyBills, Inc.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

But considering the huge number of collaborative efforts, contacts, and great run-ins we experienced at this year’s little black sheep of a tech conference, in Austin, TX; we couldn’t possibly leave all the laundry out to dry. Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. Every region needs its local media & events.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317