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. Before I jump into the 28 questions, let me start with 14 questions that I will want to go through first so I know a bit more about what we are talking about. SEO for Startups )? Wireframes?

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MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? People often ask me why I started blogging. It really started simply enough. Not only would it be less authentic but if you’re a startup it’s not immediately clear that other startup CEOs are your target market.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

raised (more on that later), and the A-list names they’ve signed up for their first batch of content, they’ve certainly raised a lot of expectations and more than a few opinions. link] Why (and who) she thinks will pay for premium Quibi content In a world of Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and YouTube, why would a customer choose to pay the $4.99

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. But these days, ground up is tougher. Image Credits: MuteSix.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

An edtech startup called Entity Academy — which provides women with training, in areas like data science and software development; mentoring; and ultimately job coaching — has raised $100 million on the heels of strong growth of its business, and an ambition to improve that ratio.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 24, 2020

We throw away 80% of our content ideas, and you should too. Luckily, link building and brand awareness goals can be built into your content marketing strategy, which can be vastly elevated by combining your efforts with digital PR. Choosing the right content idea. More posts by this contributor.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. This is the list I would start with.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based ventureLab Growth Partners said Tuesday afternoon that it has launched a new "startup studio" to invest in and build early stage startups. The new startup studio is led by Mike Prasad. The company did not say how much funding it intends to provide to startups. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. Content is a “hits-driven” business that makes it unattractive to investors – remember?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Los Angeles has been in the midst of a technology boom over the last few years, with many of high profile startups growing in the area. We spoke with Bryce Maddock , founder of TaskUs, about the company and how it has been providing the manpower behind a lot of LA''s technology startups. So, what is TaskUs?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. ” But I think this misses the point.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. We then acquire those videos directly from content owners.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

2023 hasn't been an easy year to be a startup. In fact, according to Crunchbase more than 212 startups closed their shutters in the third fiscal quarter alone – the highest number recorded in the firm's history. Yet, while many early-stage startups crumbled under the pressure, diamonds also emerged.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You might like to think that a bunch of savvy venture capitalists saw a market niche for raising smaller funds or perhaps there was a generational shift where disgruntled junior partners spun out of bigger firms to start their own gigs. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience.

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JUNE 11, 2015

It seems out of nowhere it has become the go to website for startup companies to launch their new products or businesses. It was the place that every startup knew they HAD TO be in order to attract initial users and also gain the attention of venture capitalists. Product Hunt. It reminds me a lot of how TechCrunch felt in 2006.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. A new generation of content producer and video style has emerged that is distinctly different from what you see in TV.

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MARCH 3, 2013

Let me start by saying that Clayton is one of the most influential people on my thoughts about markets that led to both the concept behind my first startup and my main theses in investing. Startup Grind was a truly awesome conference and Derek the consumate host. .” Who else does Clayton pray for? Stay Out of Jail.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

I live in LA and fund startups. So you can imagine that I see a lot of video startups. I’ve written before about why I believe most Hollywood online video startups don’t get the future (and why most Silicon Valley startups don’t get online video ). Most will fail. They have a curator.

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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. I have started thinking about what the future might look like and I’ve started imagining what I call, “MMOV” or massive multiplayer online video. 200 million views.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

This is part of a series on a Board of Directors at a Startup. High Functioning Startup Boards High-functioning boards have a tight-knit relationship between all members based on mutual trust and admiration. They are able to divide responsibilities and work to gain consensus on tough decisions that every startup inevitably faces.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Los Angeles-based HAAWK , a new startup focused on rights management, copyright enforcement, and content monetization, has raised $2.5M The startup, led by serial entrepreneur Ryan Born, said it also acquired a range of assets from Dart Music. in a seed financing round, according to the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

As a mentor to startups, I see more startups that are really an individual professional, marketing themselves as a consultant or freelancer in this new gig economy. This world changes rapidly, and needs a professional with experience in digital and conventional media to keep up. Here are some examples: Marketing Professional.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

Making money on livestreams has never been easier thanks to a suite of tools from the Los Angeles-based startup Maestro , which just nabbed $15 million in financing to grow its business. But what started in the gaming world quickly spun out as the company slashed prices to $500 per month for its services.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

The link-in-bio business is heating up as more mobile website builders compete for a coveted slice of real estate on a creator’s TikTok, Instagram or Twitter. Linktree has been around since 2016 and has more funding than its up-and-coming competitors. Now, Snipfeed enters the ring with its own $5.5 Image Credits: Snipfeed.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

500 Startups is scrapping its cohort model for accelerating companies and moving to a rolling admissions process, the accelerator said during its latest demo day. “Demo is changing the way it runs its accelerator to be rolling recruitment,” said Aaron Blumenthal , a 500 Startups venture partner.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2015

In the mobile age, what is the key to connecting and engaging with users, and where does Hollywood''s creative content fit into the mix? Andrew Stalbow: What we''re seeing, is audiences have shifted very fast from traditional content like media, televisions, and movie theaters, and have moved to mobile very quickly.

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JUNE 6, 2012

At the simplest level you can think about markets in terms of the number of times media is consumed and/or purchased by people plotted against the total number of content of that media type that is available. In the “head end” market you can make a lot of money if you’re a content producer. TV was the same.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I really want to start my journeys only with people with whom I want to work closely with for the next 5-7 years or more. If I were an entrepreneur in that space I think I would seek them out as a starting point because their interest seems authentic. Whenever somebody has a car startup I send it straight his way.

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JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. I aspired to rise above the noise by putting out insightful content with a frequency that kept people coming back to check in directly on my website. It’s like a Pachinko machine (yes, I had one in my house growing up).

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

Google raised the curtain with a splashy announcement that they’d be setting up their fifth cloud region in the U.S. “We’re excited to work with innovators like Nimble Collective to help them transform how animated content is produced, managed and delivered.” in Los Angeles.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

So we switched to distribution through partners which already had massive amounts of traffic, and concentrated in providing great content and great offers that more than made up for the sharing of revenues. Starting up' Email readers, continue here.] Some label this as “Bet on the jockey, not the horse.”.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

Is there an opportunity to rise above the crowd, and become a leading player in the industry for a startup? One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. Brian Nickerson: I started out at Yahoo, in their search group.

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MARCH 11, 2014

A few years ago I started calling the local tech ecosystem down here #LATech. In fact, many people know I grew up in NorCal and still have a 650 area code on my mobile phone. The point is … people have perceptions of Los Angeles formed by the history of this town and the fact that we are the capital of content and sun.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Tack on the challenges with land, bee population decline, heavy use of ecologically destructive fertilizers and pesticides and extreme food waste and this adds up to a real global challenge. . One of the first bets we made in Agtech was Grove started by two young, passionate engineers out of MIT – Gabe and Jamie. ” Enter Grove.

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew & Petri posed a question to me, “If Walt Disney were starting his company today, what kind of company would he build? They had all of their character development started (they showed up mock-ups) and the basic gameplay for Game 1 was through through (but not yet built).

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