Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), has become the norm for new products and services. All-you-can-eat content model. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based CraveOnline , the male lifestyle content site owned by Evolve Media, said today that it has partnered with SEP, Inc, owner of boxing publication The Ring Magazine. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Los Angeles-based subscription box startup FabFitFun said on Thursday that it has just exceeded $200M in revenues, and now has more than one million subscribers to its service. The site had started in 2010 as a digital magazine focused on beauty, fashion, fitness, wellness, and other areas. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), has become the norm for new products and services. All-you-can-eat content model. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

In a bid for a new generation of readers, Playboy , the men's magazine best known for its long history of nude photo pictorials of women, has launched a new "non-nude" era of the publication, with a Snapchat-like front cover. Playboy said a few months ago that its first, non-nude issue would be its March issue.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

A new startup emerged Tuesday with its target on United Online 's Classmates.com service, hoping to connect people with their high school classmates. Silicon Valley-based SchoolFeed said it raised $1.75M to create a new service which helps people find their classmates via online "yearbooks", in conjunction with Facebook.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In a world of digital video, whats the best way to distribute and monetize that streaming video content? San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2011

Classmates International , the unit of Woodland Hills-based United Online which has recently been transitioning from a service to find old classmates and associates into one focused on nostalgic memories under the name MemoryLane , has been hit by a trademark suite. The suit was filed by Memory Lane Inc., READ MORE>>.

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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. per registered user of ICQ, the early messaging service. And yet, users rave about the service, and spend long durations of time on the site. And the numbers were staggering. AOL paid $40.00

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based Mail.com Media Corporation , which operates the email service Mail.com, said today that it has acquired an entertainment focused blog, DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com. DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com was founded by Nikki Finke, a former Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, and New York Magazine writer and reporter. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

He met with the editors of the three Mac magazines that his customers read and showed them metrics that confirmed that SuperMac's boards were the fastest on the market. "I For the next 3 1/2 years, every magazine in the Mac industry was benchmarking all the graphics boards with SuperMac's own internal benchmarks.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

Right now, that''s a jumble of different social services, websites, and more--which is the problem that Yapert (www.yapert.com) thinks it has solved. Phil Kelly: We''re an interactive, mobile magazine, which I think is probably the best way to describe it. consolidating magazine mobile yapert interview kelly phil' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In the quest to own the world of Internet content, there has been a huge amount of focus given to the world of consumer Internet content. For that reason, more and more content is going online. However, as these are relatively niche focuses, it's difficult for those content providers--often times bloggers--to build an audience.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

They are location aware, which is important in personalizing the service offering. They ought to feel more like Pinterest (photo above) where discovery is awesome and integral to the service itself. It’s the new magazine. Having a web product abstracts the text message from the device and makes it a truly cloud service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), is rapidly becoming the norm for new products and services. All-you-can-eat content model. On the other end of the spectrum, if your service or experience is in limited supply, make it a status offering for the strivers out there who want to act and feel like affluent consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Netflix as a service has always prided itself on movie recommendations that are tailored specifically to you plus user ratings on the quality of films. Each with its own head, its own financial reporting and its own content strategy, pricing strategy and marketing strategy. The decision to split the businesses : 3 out of 5 stars.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

That recurrent usage created an audience, and is the core to our paid services. You also bought a surfing magazine at one point, didn't you? Jonno Wells: A couple of years back, we bought Water magazine. It does look like you are going in the content direction, though? It's a blend of Weather.com and ESPN.com for surfers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. What we've done, is we attract those writers to our site, and have a revenue model based on the content. It's basically a "wisdom-of-the-crowds" way to get content.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

What we charge for, in the context of an enterprise customer, is the server software that has direct interaction with their existing systems, with the Oracles, SAPs, and databases, which allows them to extract that data, and publish those visualizations, manage users, and curate the content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), is rapidly becoming the norm for new products and services. All-you-can-eat content model. On the other end of the spectrum, if your service or experience is in limited supply, make it a status offering for the strivers out there who want to act and feel like affluent consumers.

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Startup Customer Custom Netflix 56

Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We’ve recently launched a video series called T3:Today’s Tech Trends to further support our shows by adding a video component that can be shared directly from YouTube, our blog or embedded in the radio show website, blog or any other website/blog willing to carry the free content. We built unique websites for each show.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Make sure to tune in for all the live action. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2011

Often you hear a radio ad, see a TV ad or read an article in a magazine and you type the results into Google to find out more details about the product or service. In some ways it is because that’s where your user engaged the content. This happens with other marketing campaigns, too. They did not.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Make sure to tune in for all the live action. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

Most importantly, we are focused on premium quality services. What you first saw happening with content in the music area--where things went from non-digital to digital--is happening now with all forms of content: games, videos, newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

One is software, which is very much like software-as-a-service, where we deliver that software to publications and conferences, to enable rich media on their sites. It synchronizes the timeline of the video with document content. That drove initial attention and traction, with content and uploads.

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Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

With nearly two decades’ investing experience working in content creation and new technology, he has grown Machinima into a video creation and curation powerhouse with over four billion YouTube video views, 30,000 programmers and distribution with companies like Warner Bros., YouTube, Microsoft and SyFy.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Jay Penske has been building a huge, online blog publishing empire here in Los Angeles; the firm was previously known as Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC) before selling off its email service in 2010. Penske is the son of automotive magnate Roger Penske, owner of automotive firm Penske Corporation. READ MORE>>.

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Media News Entertainment Hollywood 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The public version was launched in 2007 and got on the front page of Digg, on Lifehacker and Smashing magazine. I felt I had created a useful service, but needed a guy like Steffen to turn it into a real business. So right now we have a lot of things planned for the future – both for IconFinder and other related services.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love. Michael Schneider is the CEO of Mobile Roadie , the leading self-service mobile app engagement platform. Laura Brashier – Founder of 2date4love.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. Bambi Francisco. Founder and senior writer for GigaOm. gigaom.com. .

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

We've created a service around group gifting online, in a fun and easy formal. We were constantly on the Today Show, CNN, Entrepreneur, Time Magazine. We've done some great partnerships which we can't talk about now, with content sites and merchant partners, plus we're expanding into the B2B area.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping development, Startup, Website content. . You work in (or run) a services company. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Apps, content, mobile. . With the advent of geolocation and fantastic payment services such as Square, the future of freelanc. Pedro Galván, Software Guru magazine. Kevin Reeth, Outright.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. magazine and the LA Business Journal. Follow PandoDaily: Search. Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Post navigation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The topic of whether the web is dead was kicked off by Chris Andersen of Wired Magazine in this article. The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. +

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!).

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