Central Desktop Adds Social Networking
socalTECH
OCTOBER 29, 2008
Pasadena-based Central Desktop, a provider of on-demand project management and collaboration software, has rolled out new social networking features on its site.
Topspin Rolls Out Music Marketing Software, To Some
socalTECH
MARCH 19, 2009
Venice, California-based Topspin , a developer of software focused on helping musicians market and distribute their work, launched an upgrade to its product Wednesday at the SXSW festival. The company has previously rolled out the software in a limited released with David Byrne and Brian Eno, among others.
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JULY 9, 2022
The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Social Media.
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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback
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MARCH 14, 2022
Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.
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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace
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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. Eventually, Nigam sees the company expanding into a full-fledged social network, which he said Gen Z is “starving for.”
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TechCrunch LA
MARCH 18, 2019
Along the way, we found ourselves constantly surprised by unanticipated applications that suddenly appeared and gained huge adoption across the Internet; this was the case with email, the World Wide Web, peer-to-peer file sharing, user generated content, Napster, YouTube, Instagram, social networking, etc.
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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal
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JULY 7, 2010
Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA.
Julie Schoenfeld On Perfect Market's New Funding
socalTECH
JANUARY 18, 2011
We caught up with Julie Schoenfeld , the firm's CEO, to hear about how the firm's offerings have evolved, an interesting comparison of the firm's software to what Demand Media is doing, and what this new funding will go towards. It's some of the kinds of things Demand Media does, except, for the newsroom. Congrats on funding.
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Base Your New Venture On These New Technology Trends
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Social Media.
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86 How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble
socalTECH
MARCH 1, 2013
However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies. What's your background?
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Security And Privacy Are Both A Risk and Opportunity
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 3, 2019
Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.
Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc
socalTECH
MAY 30, 2019
We could still deliver applicants and deliver passive job seekers to a company, but we could also delivery applicants that already understood what the cultur of the company was, and be able to measure the kind of footprint people were making on a social network. You've got to know best practices in demand generation.
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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.
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Interview with Idris Manley, NativeTung
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. NativeTung is a cloud-based platform, which includes some software which runs on the web site, which ensures synchronization of the translation at all times. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks.
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133 No Expert Has A Startup Checklist To Ensure Success
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 28, 2015
The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Social Media.
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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
It is also a result of pent-up demand. My advice : if you’re raising a $750,000 round and you have demand for $1.2 In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary. then the world will be fine for fund raising. million – take it.
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How To Use A Checklist To Build An Innovative Startup
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OCTOBER 18, 2017
The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Social Media.
Security And Privacy Are Entrepreneur Opportunities
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FEBRUARY 22, 2014
Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.
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Business Success Requires More Than Good Checklists
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 2, 2014
The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. There are already a variety of cloud computing solutions available for common business usage, including the following: Software as a Service (SaaS). Social Media.
Here’s A Painful Problem For Aspiring Entrepreneurs
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JUNE 4, 2017
Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.
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Eight Most Underrated Startup Opportunities
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 5, 2010
A few months ago, I was quoted by a Wall Street Journal reporter in an article, the inverse of this one, titled “ The 7 Most Overrated Businesses ” (I said no more traffic-driven social networks, please). Social network marketing. I believe it will happen, but it hasn’t yet. Medical devices.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 22, 2011
Real time on-demand collaboration. Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications now allow on-demand collaboration. Twelve-year-olds are running million-dollar-social networks, your grandma is tweeting, and your long-lost cousin runs a popular tribe on Second Life. People on the Web now include everyone.
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Interview with Brandon Hance, Audiolife
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MARCH 24, 2010
We allow them to have virtual store fronts, portable stores, which they can place on their social networking profiles, on their own dot com, on their blogs, and so forth--anywhere fans already interact with the artist. We've got a suite of on-demand, manufacturing tools which means they never have to spend money upfront.
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Privacy is a Startup Challenge and an Opportunity
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DECEMBER 22, 2012
Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.
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Don’t Let Paranoia Dampen Your Startup Spirit
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2011
Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.
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The Music Lover’s Dream | OnAir Box
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 11, 2014
Also, if out at a party or other gathering, we leave our device susceptible to being picked up by a stranger and if not outright stolen, the fear of someone accessing your favorite Social Networking site while you aren’t looking can prevent you from enjoying the atmosphere.
Five Clues To Web 3.0 Opportunities Here Now
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 6, 2010
Real time on-demand collaboration. Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications now allow on-demand collaboration. Twelve-year-olds are running million-dollar-social networks, your grandma is tweeting, and your long-lost cousin runs a popular tribe on Second Life. People on the Web now include everyone.
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TVSync’s Open API Uses Video and Audio Recognition Across All Four Screens
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 20, 2012
Utilizing this same core technology, TVSync has developed automatic content recognition (ACR) software that can be accessed in seconds by video and/or audio using the camera and/or mic from a mobile device. I think we are coming to a world with enormous amounts of content available on demand. What does that mean? Even more choices.
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82 Startups To Help You Survive College
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 15, 2016
Goodwall is a LinkedIn style (but not actually LinkedIn, thank goodness) social network for school pupils that allows them to get recognized by Universities and win scholarships and/or bursaries. With increasing demand, Goodwall also helps universities and colleges the whole world to recruit the best students.
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Entrepreneurs: See Paranoia As An Opportunity
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 29, 2010
Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.
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85 Here’s Why We Fell in Love with Draft
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. And social networks enabled rapid growth and also the ability to more easily find and play with friends or make new ones.
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150 Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California.
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Venture Capital Q&A Session
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 29, 2010
If you’re working at a startup and the founding team is promising that they’ll “get around to creating an employee stock option plan&# soon – demand it now. In the era of social networking if you can’t figure out how to get intro’d to me you probably aren’t cut out to be an entrepreneur.
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282 TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 18, 2013
Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc., On Demand). Apps & Software Business Entertainment Entrepreneurship Events Finance Gadgets Marketing Mobile Startups TechZulu Accel Partners Amplify.la Csathy was President and CEO of Sorenson Media, Inc.,
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111 Digital Health Becoming a Reality
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2010
My favorite new software tool is DailyBurn. Problem is – Weight Watchers software TOTALLY SUCKS. Social networking meets online personal health management. Unfortunately it seems that it was back-ordered due to strong demand with rumors of it selling for astronomical prices on eBay.
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278 The Disappearing Face Of Mainstream Retailing Setting
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 7, 2015
Pehr Luedtke of PowerReviews defended his pro standing stating that “The convenience and depth of the online shopping experience—and powerful relevance of social networks—results in more educated shoppers whose research online has an impact on their purchases offline”. Pro or con?”.
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TechZulu Live from StartupDemo
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. The Sponsors. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.
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71 StartupDemo Was a Huge Success!
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. The Sponsors. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.
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60 Guide to the LA Startup Community
SoCal Delicious
AUGUST 23, 2010
Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Not to mention the great weather, beaches, and beautiful people.
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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount
Tech Zulu Event
JANUARY 12, 2010
As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . Richard Rosenblatt. Bambi Francisco.
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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 13, 2010
Software Labs: Petri Dishes for Tech Innovation. The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . Pedro Galván, Software Guru magazine. How UX and the Cloud are Transforming Software.
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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
Imagine that you can develop software on your local computer but the entire service is delivered virtually through a partner in the same way people consumer energy with all of the scale benefits that go with that. .&# An early star in this category has been RightScale. Think about it. Other Layers.
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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2017
https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.
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