SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Content Startup Social Media IP 175

Berkonomics

MAY 19, 2022

If you have not done so, let Google tell you whether your web site is responsive. Go to [link] and enter your web address for a quick, free, analysis. How about your emails? And treat the result seriously. Same thing.

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Email Web Tips Metrics 156

SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I''ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles. What I didn''t discuss was how you should go about selecting the right company. You are looking for someone who cares about the look, but you are hiring the development firm for it''s development skills not its graphic design skills. References.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here are some items to think about: Have you defined the functionality? Assess the Company's Website: The company's own site provides a clue to its dedication to aesthetics and content. However, an overly attractive site could indicate a leaning towards design over development. Or is your project a clean slate?

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Software Development Software Review Develop Development 295

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2021

Inbound (pull) marketing is all about convincing potential customers that they found you and have a relationship with you, rather than being accosted by your message at every turn. Your challenge is to provide credible content, sources, and assistance. Optimize your content for search engines to get attention.

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Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 172

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 51 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. A good start is a book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” Curation, the most efficient content. Start creating content today.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2014

We recently spoke with the CEO and co-founder of Kixer, Keith Bonnici --most recently SVP of Business Operations at Scopely--about the startup, which recently announced a seed financing round. We were using big data and machine learning to promote content which needed to be in front of user eyeballs. What is Kixer?

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Mobile Web Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 124

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2010

In the spirit of highlighting new startup opportunities, I think we need some new companies who can track down and remove unwanted content on the web. About one-third of the searches yielded content used to deny a job, the survey said. About one-third of the searches yielded content used to deny a job, the survey said.

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Content Web Technical Review Innocal 49

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 300 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. Recently I was reviewing a book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” Curation, the most efficient content. Start creating content today.

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Examples Content Marketing Entrepreneur 93

socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2011

Recently, we ran into Edo Cohen , CEO of Los Angeles-based Seevolution (www.seevolution.com), a firm developing web site heat map tracking software. We talked with Edo about what his firm is up to. What is Seevolution all about? It's free to use, and takes about two minutes to set up. Who would find it most useful?

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Web Sites Startup Software 255

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although the exact sequence of events is a bit unclear, it appears that Hacker News user "lukethomas"(who is unaffiliated with Divshot) was prompted to create the Hacker News post after reading a tweet about the initiation of the company's private beta. Somethin' Somethin' - Offer something special to the people engaging on the site.

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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 had hit the masses, but the ad revenue model would take us forever to pay for the content costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 50 million other new websites created every year, and attract the customers you need. Recently I was reviewing a new book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” Curation, the most efficient content. Start creating content today.

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Content Tips Marketing Blogging 102

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. What is CreatorUp all about?

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Web Content Startup Education 187

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2011

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a SCREAMING post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. Web reputation management, both business and personal, has become a top priority requirement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Develop viral content. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

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Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 139

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2012

Rarely do we come upon a website or web applcaitions that truly sifts through all the junk and curates the most influential and authoritative source to give to useful and value content…not spam. They’ll discover content for me…AND make sure it’s not spam. Content was a flowing based of my Twitter stream.

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Content Startup Web Research 79

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2015

One of the best ways for increase in business development is to create a more responsive web design. There are many aspects that go into a responsive web design that meets your client’s’ needs. There are many aspects that go into a responsive web design that meets your client’s’ needs. Making it Faster.

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Web Design Web Design Develop 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

In fact, subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Taelor Style , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via KiwiCo. All-you-can-eat content model. Network model.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

Netflix, Hulu, and even YouTube and other content streaming sites have all but obliterated the independent DVD rental business of yesterday. If you’re a big supporter of indie films or web series you’re probably checking out your favorites on a variety of different sites on the web. To date, Blip.tv

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Web Netflix Social Media Product 65

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2015

The company said it will use the new funding for accelerating acquisitions, growth, and new content intiatives. lynda.com offers up an online education site where users can learn about a huge library of topics, ranging from everything from web and graphic design software to business topics, 3D animation, and more.

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Education Equity Content Web 100

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. 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.

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Metrics Sites Advertising Web 207

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

We talked with Scott--who until recently, was a student at the University of Southern California--about how he created his company and how that investment from Branson pushed him to take his startup full time. Why does the world need another social sharing site? First off, what is MySocialCloud? That's very much what we've been doing.

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Startup CTO Coach Content Web 239

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. But, how do you figure out what actual content will resonate with online consumers? Tell us a little bit about your background and the company? Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major.

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Content News Startup Research 230

Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2016

If you have not done so, let Google tell you whether your web site is responsive. Go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile–friendly/ and enter your web address for a quick, free, analysis. How about your emails? And treat the result seriously. Same thing.

Email 120

Email Marketing Web Mobile 120

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. How does it work?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2011

According to the two, they are in a three-year partnership, which will provide outdoor enthusiasts with information on recreation locations on REI's website, as well as connect shoppers with gear on Demand's Trails.com web site. Financial details of the collaboration were not disclosed.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Our goal in this article is to paint a realistic picture of how to think about performance early in the life of an application. Web application performance is a broad discipline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

In fact, subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Mr.Conection , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via KiwiCo. All-you-can-eat content model. Network model.

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Startup Customer Custom Netflix 168

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Los Angeles-based MySpace announced a lineup of advertisers who will be sponsoring the firm's new MySpace Music site this morning, saying that it has signed four brands who will be integrated sponsors of the site. Financial impact of the ad deals was not disclosed. READ MORE>>

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Tell me about the business. What are some good examples of similar sites? Which devices?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 396

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

It will cost them too much and will create more work for them once the site has been deployed. The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. With over three billion local search queries in any given month on Google alone, no business can afford not to be on the web.

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Web Design Web Design Sites 58

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Much effort and study has been expended to determine how a web site can better convert its visitors to paying customers. Why tell someone about your product if you can give them a demonstration, and what better way to make that demonstration irresistible than to make it free? Sites like ww1.novarad.net Site Speed .

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Sites Search Engine Optimization Technical Review Web Development 40

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Tell me about the business. What are some good examples of similar sites? Which devices?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

By Evan Britton Each day, millions of internet users post updates on a variety of social networking sites. Because of all of these updates, there is a wealth of real-time information on the web. Simply do a search for whatever you want to learn about, and you'll see results sorted by the most recent posted update.

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Web Social Network Google Networking 82

SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. We caught up with CEO Aaron Crayford to learn about the company. Instead of 20 comedies on one site, now you have 5000 on one site.

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