Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2010

TechZulu and Schmoozd have joined forces to bring you Startup Demo during Social Media Week. We are excited to be part of Social Media Week and helping awesome startups receive their much deserved exposure. About Social Media Week. About Startup Demo. StartupDemo is produced by Schmoozd along with TechZulu.

Social Media 71

Social Media Media Startup Mixergy 71

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A little history, we launched our product years ago, Search IQ. That product right now is on 2,000 publisher websites, it's sold under the SaaS model, and a lot of people on the free, ad-supported version. The company was founded in 2001, as Findology Interactive Media. We're able to do that by the traffic we tap into.

Advertising 203

Advertising Startup Google Commerce 203

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy.

Web 139

Web Startup Sites Design 139

Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2021

Now, Shopify has apparently approached major publishers including Complex and Vox Media as well as getting Buzzfeed to sign on to the new program. This means that readers could purchase products from retailers that use Shopify's platform without ever leaving the publisher's site. Not sold on Shopify?

Marketing 177

Marketing Buzzfeed Guide Platform 177

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.”

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Startup Statistics Social Media 109

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal announced Friday that it has acquired SMB:LIVE , a developer of digital presence and reputation management products for the small and medium sized business market. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

ReachLocal 164

ReachLocal Woodland Hills Social Media Acquisition 164

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. Why is this important to filmmakers?

Hollywood 256

Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

More important, if someone does find your site, the content better be enticing enough for them to come back. Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. I see too many investor pitches, and even executive summaries that ramble on for many pages without a clear message.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. The fundamental problem with banner ads is a condition called “banner blindness&# meaning that our eyes are really quickly trained to look at what is most relevant on the page – the content we want to see.

Advertising 352

Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. MyGloss.com is our home page, and we also aggregate across our network, and that's definitely a popular destination. Also, we have lots of content.

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.”

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Statistics Startup Social Media 124

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. The cool thing is we were not only taught about film and TV, but also about new media. One of our teachers was teaching new media and it was really inspiring. Our most popular product is our Facebook app.

Social Media 94

Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In the online world, you need a solid connection between your domain name and your product, brand, or business. Content is king of the road. The site must have more and better content (information presented) than your competitor. The site must have more and better content (information presented) than your competitor.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

It's not an uncommon experience, and one which drove Holden Steinberg and Jason Crilly to start PageWoo (www.pagewoo.com), a service which is aimed at helping businesses create mobile-friendly landing pages for their advertisements. Jason Crilly: We're doing mobile landing pages. What exactly is PageWoo? We're doing it for ad networks.

Mobile 249

Mobile Startup Advertising Sites 249

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

What do children's vitamins and social media have to do with one another? Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0.

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

With the advent of social media and the pervasive move to smartphones, even customers who still prefer to purchase in brick-and-mortar stores have dramatically changed their shopping habits. One example of this is Nike’s shoe size page. Get beyond push messages to real customer engagement. Blogs must provide value to customers.

Customer 103

Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 103

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2017

In addition to legal and local requirements, you need a business name that is available as a website domain name, and a user name on key social media channels, including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Provide online content that ranks you ahead of competitors. Use social media to actively engage with your customers.

Social Media 57

Social Media Search Engine Optimization Startup Customer 57

Tech.Co

JUNE 23, 2015

For a long time though the power to broadcast live to a big audience has been strictly in the hands of TV stations and media conglomerates. The team built a ‘Share to YouTube’ button that lets users post their video straight to their personal page with the touch of a button. It’s a pretty simple answer: nothing beats a live broadcast.

Social Media 87

Social Media .Net Platform Media 87

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Social Media. Refreshing Content. Each individual piece of content should have its own distinct URL(title tag), and a unique title (H1 tag) for the page that search engines can read and index. The more pages indexed, the more traffic you will get. Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press.

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Tell me about the product you have created with Disney and Miss Piggy? We bring her to life over messaging in a social setting. Miss Piggy is already a social figure, with a Facebook page, but she never actually has a chat with user directly. It looks like you have to do a lot of content work behind the scenes?

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Hollywood Startup Burbank 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 19, 2011

TechZulu is heading out to CES and we have tons of products/gadgets/games/companies to review and interview. 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. So make sure you Follow @techzulu.

Social Media 84

Social Media Newsletter Mobile Startup 84

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy.

Web 76

Web Startup Sites Design 76

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. To do this, you must formulate a sound engagement plan in advance of receiving unexpected media attention.

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community. If users go to Pinterest to plan things, then they come to Tapiture for a personalized experience based on fancy algorithms that tailors content to their tastes.

Seed Funding 40

Seed Funding Funding Commerce Social Media 40

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For example, when Tumblr announced it would roll out Post+, a paid subscription product, the company used fan fiction writers as an example of a content creator who could profit from the product. But monetizing fan fiction through online platforms is a trickier matter.

Writing 196

Writing Outsource Development Technical Review Examples 196

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Also, if you happen not to be able to attend BlogWorld and New Media Expo this year TechZulu has you covered. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. The first phase was just getting all the content online via YouTube.

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.”

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Statistics 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.”

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Technical Review Statistics Startup 119

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy.

Web 62

Web Startup Sites Design 62

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2010

Matt Edelman: The last company I ran and co-founded PeopleJam, which was a social media business for people interested in self improvement. ThisNext.com has been a social shooping site, really for anyone and everyone, and for every product category. That's available on our home page. So let's talk about ThisNext.

Newsletter 165

Newsletter Sites Content Advertising 165

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

version notice boards are disrupting publishing and news content aggregation in Africa, influencing even how media houses on the continent relay news. Johan Nel, CEO and founder of Umuntu Media says,” Mimiboards will help people on the continent record and handle issues live as they emerge. Mimiboard, virtual, 3.0

Advertising 91

Advertising Media News Content 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.”

Funding 62

Funding Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Websites are a big job and take time.

Web 99

Web Startup Sites Design 99

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

We allow them to have virtual store fronts, portable stores, which they can place on their social networking profiles, on their own dot com, on their blogs, and so forth--anywhere fans already interact with the artist. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media.

Van Nuys 191

Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Social Media. Refreshing Content. Each individual piece of content should have its own distinct URL(title tag), and a unique title (H1 tag) for the page that search engines can read and index. Increase the production of your content. The more pages indexed, the more traffic you will get.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Also, if you happen not to be able to attend BlogWorld and New Media Expo this year TechZulu has you covered. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49