socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2018

Venice-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat, said this morning that it has rolled out a new version of its Spectacles, its hands-free, photo-and-video snapping sunglasses. The company said the new glasses transfer to Snapchat up to four times faster. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. He built & IPOd Demand Media. In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5 What Has Given Birth to This New Movement in LA? .

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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. Shift to Snapchat-Styled Videos. Michael Litt recently shared how her B2B company decided to use Snapchat-style videos to engage with both her team and their customers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Evan Spiegel , SnapChat (Los Angeles, mobile app). Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others. Rob Reed , MomentFeed (Los Angeles/Ventura, analytics). Ophir Tanz , GumGum (Los Angeles, advertising).

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

NFT sales volumes are falling and crypto prices remain depressed, but Nigam expressed confidence about the long-term demand for digital avatars, likening them to mobile apps in their significance to the internet. ” He views Facebook and Snapchat primarily as messaging apps and said Instagram is having an “identity crisis.”

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JUNE 9, 2013

The topic of the conference was “The Sharing Economy” and as I read many of the session title descriptions I realized that people would be talking more about “collaborative consumption” (think airbnb, taskrabbit, uber) than about why people are sharing more on Instragram & Snapchat.

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JUNE 17, 2017

Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. They hired a biz dev team to work on deals where their product could be embedded in other people’s products as a way to increase customer demand. If there was strong market demand for their product then this investment might pay off handsomely.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve been involved with SaaS companies with VCs who don’t understand demand generation, lead qualification, sales coverage ratios, sales forecasting or frankly when deals should be inside sales vs. outside sales. It felt like there was a wavelength with management and somebody wasn’t on it. FourSquare. Everywhere.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. Product is simply about defining a physical good or service that would be valued by consumers of the product more than existing alternatives based on functionality, quality and/or price.

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LATechDigest

MAY 16, 2016

SNAPCHAT Expands into New Offices at Santa Monica Airport ( link ). CORNERSTONE ON DEMAND Launches New Products ( link ). Here’s what’s new in LA’s tech space: Behind the Scenes at SMASHD LABS , Open for Accelerator Submissions ( link ). HYPERLOOP ONE Raises $80M Series B, Launches Test Track ( link ).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2017

A report, published by The Information this morning, says that Venice, California-based Snap "badly overestimated demand" for its Spectacles product, and now has hundreds of thousands of units piled up in warehouses. The report cited two people "close to the company", saying Snap is "already struggling to meet expectations".

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Smart phones finally took off leading to enormous wealth creation for Apple employees and investors but also helped propel Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and others. The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve. goes into a startup. The result?

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

We've since expanded to Instagram and Vine, and it's Snapchat and Youtube next. In our food area, it's more visual, and we find that works well on Facebook, Instagram, and Vine, and we're now also moving into Snapchat and Youtube. Demand Media made a business out of that. We've done really well. That works very well for us.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yes, we all know that stories of Facebook, Snapchat and Uber where the founders had either board control or super voting rights by class structure but this is actually the exception and you shouldn’t blow up a good financing option over this issue. With that said, no venture capital firm really wants to replace a CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Snapchat is almost exclusively a young person’s hangout, but you will likely find consumers of all ages on Facebook and Twitter. Demand professional business skills and customer advocacy. On the other hand, if your business is selling commodities to government entities, social media may rightly be at the bottom of your list.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

We have a couple of thousand retailers and a product catalog of 80 million products, and every day, people are posting their photos and videos to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter. The second part of our app is Know It, which is a video on demand platform. Retailers will pay them for those recommendations.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Less than a month ago, Snapchat opened custom on-demand geofilters to everyone. Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. Well, Snapchat has made it so that anyone can create and upload a custom filter to any area they want.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Cornerstone on Demand brought together the area’s best & brightest for its fourth annual LA Tech Summit , once again hosted at the Fairmont. Lasky praised Snapchat’s rollout of Stories, admired Spiegel as a constant inventor, and hinted at a future product flow that is very unique. LA Tech has arrived.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). Announcing that you are a consultant, and hoping demand will set your focus, is not a good strategy. Shape your business by design, not by default.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 6, 2015

Currently, Southern California still lacks in number of advanced coding schools to sustain the workforce demand of the region. There are also burgeoning startups there, such as Nasty Gal, Hulu, Dollar Shave Club, Tinder and Snapchat. “Los Angeles is one of the regions hit by the shortage of highly trained Software Engineers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” Even the popular Snapchat is still struggling to generate revenue and profit. So let’s take a look.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue. MySpace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon faded.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. I see companies that have been trying to raise professional money for years and have struggled suddenly gearing up for ICOs because they know there is so much demand from them — precisely because so many people speculatively made money on Bitcoin and Ethereum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue. MySpace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon faded.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

Founded in Los Angeles by Latinos to address the growing demand for short-form online video for Millennials it is probably single-handedly improving the diversity of the tech industry as the employee base is overwhelmingly Latino and proud.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I personally experienced the even more subversive side of DIGG when I learned that groups of people were actually demanding money to get stories on the DIGG homepage and I, the naive believer in online democracy and good intentions of people, learned about the black hat and gray hat monetization of the Internet.

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