socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

We look at what people are communicating in that content, and what we see is the value is in what people are referencing, mentioning, and recommending as products to their friends and family. There were a lot of at-bats for that, things like promo codes, affiliate marketing, but those were really built for professional content creators.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

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. That was the jumping off point for OneCubicle a little over 18 months ago, when we started writing the business plan and code.

Social Network 100

Social Network Entertainment Startup CTO Coach 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. It is no wonder web content players with large audiences are all inking deals with them now. They’ve already signed up headliners like The Improv.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

For the first half of our show, we actually set up a store front on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, and put their product in a retail setting, and let consumers and investors run through the gamut, allowing them to interact in real time, and get feedback on their packaging and products, and even recommend it to their friends.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Invest Competition 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Traditional media companies published their stories on the web.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. Ramit Varma: We have pulled in a lot of expertise, both on the content and feature side. The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly. Logos, themes, branding, content, videos, maps and more are automatically transposed to the mobile version with no programming knowledge required. We write and create our own content for the game. Mobile Web America, Inc.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I live in the city of Santa Monica. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. Everybody knows about the leaked memo of AOL’s Tim Armstrong saying he wants to up his content from 4% video to 70% video. LA is producing content at scale. Let me use LA as an example.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313