Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media. Want control?

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Marketing Demand Startup Customer 82

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings. What happened with smart phones, is consumers are buying more and more applications, but a screen can only fit a dozen icons. Patrick Kennedy: We've had fantastic funding from a venture capital firm called Mobile Media Ventures. How is the company funded?

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

Those might be on household items like laundry detergent, or it might be gadgets like tablets or a large screen television. I was at Overture, then Yahoo, and later People Media, which we sold to Match.com. The content is really amazing, and leverages the power of social, and applies that towards e-commerce and deals.

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Content Yahoo Los Angeles Sites 212

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. We are the media.

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Startup Media Content Platform 380

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2013

Today that changes as two major brands Callaway and Uber, partner to offer on-demand rides at one of the largest events in sports. Android Applications Apps & Software iOS Social Media #MyCallawayDriver Callaway golf mobile app ride sharing Uber US Open'

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Software Review Technical Review Social Media Course 104

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Recent alliances in both the emergency responder and warehouse space will allow us to deliver a best-in-class solution to help manage teams, workflow, and efficiency through our wide-screen, large battery, full OS, wearable. EnvoyNow is innovating in the on-demand food delivery space, targeting the underserved college market.

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Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

Tech.Co

JULY 31, 2017

Yet as an entrepreneur, you can rarely hide under the rock and pretend there’s nothing else happening around you and no one is demanding your attention. With all sorts of text/video messaging apps, email and social media as the primary mean of communication, the phone has become both a public and a business nuance.

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Snapchat Product Email Social Media 65

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

They also saw a great demand for users tagging who they were with when sharing these moments. When you’d like to share who you’re currently “With&# , you are presented with a simple screen to tag who you’re with and what you are doing. This is where the idea for With was born. The picture is optional.

Mobile 74

Mobile Social Network Screening Demand 74

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2014

“Connecting a device or sensors to a network is not enough to create an awesome new experience,” said Avi Itzkovitch, UX consultant and founder of XG Media. Price point is undoubtedly a factor (the Samsung fridge goes for $3,600), and there just isn’t much demand for app-enabled kitchens.

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Belkin Startup Google Press 92

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. Instead, we do this for about a $1000 for a site, in HD quality, supporting eight to 10 participants on a 48- or 52-inch screen.

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IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices.

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I recently invested in a company in the media & entertainment sector (this will be announced in a couple of months) so I’ve been thinking a lot about how the industry works, why the structure has evolved the way it did, why the company I invested in has had so much success and what this all implies for the future. If so, why?

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

It’s your job to find a continued way to stay on the radar screen of the VC. GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. They then lament the fact that the process died shortly thereafter. All sales campaigns are processes that occur over time. You had your great meeting.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366