socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Beverly Hills-based movie studio Relativity Media --which is behind such titles as Limitless, Masterminds, and Immortals--scored a big investment from Singaporean Internet company YuuZoo , the two companies said this morning. The two said that YuuZoo will initially buy 33.3

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2014

Social networking site MovieLaLa --which focuses on upcoming movies--said Tuesday that it has raised an angel investment from Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff. The startup''s angels include a number of folks from the Silicon Beach content world, including Allen DeBevoise, Jim Moloshok, and others. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Add content regularly. When you post to a blog multiple times each week, you content is constantly changing and growing. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. Leverage blog content. Conversational style. Marty Zwilling>

Blogging 135

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

Image via Pixabay If you are a business owner today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

What does social networking have to do with the stock market? Vinny talked with us about his start, which allows users to discuss and collaborate on their stocks and finances in a social way. Vinny Jindal: Stockr's mission is to help people invest better. Vinny Jindal: Stockr's mission is to help people invest better.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

” MediaLab is a holding company that owns several other mobile properties , including anonymous social network Whisper and mixtape app DatPiff. Heyward intended it to be a way for people to share more personal and intimate details — to be a social network for confessions and support rather than harassment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

What I’d like to do is tell you the story of how the investment came to be, what my thesis is / was and share some thoughts on macro trends. The Team – I’m on record as saying that 70% of my investment criteria are team related. I’m also on record as saying I invest in lines & not dots. He wanted to be an entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

“The way I look at it… a lot of it is going to be like any kind of content studio,” says Peter Rojas, a partner at the New York investment firm Betaworks Ventures. “We’re looking more broadly at the issues around manipulated or faked content and how do you address that,” says Rojas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

If you are a business owner today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Social Media Media Startup Platform 126

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And investing in content companies won’t return money! Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. Watch out for an investment announcement from me here soon.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Despite the huge surge of content specifically being developed for the web--and for sites like YouTube--making that content profitable and sustainable continues to be an issue for content creators. We''d invested a lot of money in that, uploading clips to Youtube, and that went very well. That''s the separation we see.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

Add content regularly. When you post to a blog multiple times each week, you content is constantly changing and growing. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. Leverage blog content. Conversational style. Marty Zwilling.

Blogging 88

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 88

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

When uncertain of what to do next, social proof kicks in to see what others are doing, or have done. Survey results show that more than 80% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase. Social psychology in general deals with how individuals relate to one another.

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Custom Customer Social Media Technical Review 122

socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based Taltopia , an angel backed, online social networking site focused on Hollywood, said today that it has launched both Apple iPhone and Google Android applications. Tags: taltopia casting calls hollywood entertainment content jobs venture capital angel investment. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Julie Schoenfeld: When we talked last, we were focusing primarily on helping publisher monetize their archived content. So, we start with that.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based View2Gether.com , which is developing a product which will allow users to watch and share video content in real-time, said this week that it has raised a Series A investment round. Tags: view2gether venture capital content hollywood video community social networking.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

What we saw with CareerArc, was there was already a tremendous amount of investment in the middle of the market, with all of these different services and products that went into taking care of an employee when they were hired until they were let go. Talk more about that outplacement content? That's been very effective.

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. A conundrum for many frustrated entrepreneurs is that they need money from investors to design and build a prototype product, yet most angel investors expect to see at least a prototype before they invest. Prepare an investment-grade business plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We all know media companies are suffering as CPMs (the amount they can charge per thousand visitors) are falling, available inventory is climbing, free content and blogs are proliferating, user attention is being divided with social networks and the core media business cash cows like classified ads have been disrupted by companies like CraigsList.

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Media Advertising Screening Content 288

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. Luck has it, I'm also a small investor though an investment in BetaWorks.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Add content regularly. When you post to a blog multiple times each week, you content is constantly changing and growing. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. Leverage blog content. Conversational style. Marty Zwilling.

Blogging 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Add content regularly. When you post to a blog multiple times each week, you content is constantly changing and growing. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. Leverage blog content. Conversational style. Marty Zwilling.

Blogging 95

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I hope benefit the Southern California technology ecosystem. More than 90% of Japanese mobile subscribers are on 3G networks (vs.

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Slides Southern California Social Network Startup 188

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

Indi operates an app which lets people get paid for sharing their social content, making product recommendations, and more. They can then make money from that video-on-demand, and people can pay them to watch that content. Our interview today is with serial entrepreneur Neel Grover , the CEO and founder of Indi (indi.com).

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Help Commerce Platform Orange County 113

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Why did you decide to start yet another social networking site? Our demographic is the 22 to 32 year old.

Social Network 100

Social Network Entertainment Startup CTO Coach 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. The build “implicit social networks.&# Enter Xobni.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Add content regularly. When you post to a blog multiple times each week, you content is constantly changing and growing. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. Leverage blog content. Conversational style. Marty Zwilling.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In contrast, social networking sites drove a record number of clicks, up 20% over the prior year. Clearly there is a shift occurring in users'' behavior, as social networks continue to hone their product discovery and purchase capabilities. Google is great at search, yet their G+ social network wasn’t the most successful.

Entrepreneur 210

Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

When uncertain of what to do next, social proof kicks in to see what others are doing, or have done. Survey results show that more than 80% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase. Social psychology in general deals with how individuals relate to one another.

Custom 85

Custom Customer Social Media Technical Review 85

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Because you have multiple forces at work.

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Global audiences of prosumer video producers will create content that is viewed by global audiences in numbers far in excess of traditional TV. TV will enter the era of “participation” which is a much more important trend than “social video” even if it seems less sexy or less fundable. 200 million views.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

Social Media 66

Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

This version has some additional details on a portfolio company I’ve invested in, which are disclosed below. While Google stopped Facebook in their tracks when they built a social networking company. And Facebook stomped out Twitter from building an open social network. from winning the Internet portal wars.

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Google Press Marketing Content 325

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Add content regularly. When you post to a blog multiple times each week, you content is constantly changing and growing. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. Leverage blog content. Conversational style. Marty Zwilling.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I’m often asked by people what investment areas interest me. I try to invest in things that I know and that I believe I might have better knowledge and relationships than the masses of VCs. But one theme in pervasive in all my thinking about investing in Internet-based companies: Deflationary economics. Here’s what I mean.

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Startup Pricing Marketing Product 386