Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. It’s a cool product and worth checking out. They sponsor TWiVC.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

I connected those two about three years ago--back when MySpace was actually MySpace, and Facebook was Facebook. I was looking at a crowd at a club, and I noticed how the clubs were using MySpace's personal profiles as venue profiles. Then, worry about the design. The idea was born in Vegas. Where is the site now?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

SGN, is doing so well in fact that they have begun one of the largest hiring sprees I’ve seen in years with current openings spanning design, production, product management, and more. Quite impressive for an independently owned gaming company specializing in simple yet addictive games reminiscent of old school PopCap.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? MySpace grew faster because Friendster’s servers couldn’t scale. MySpace didn’t handle images or video well. So users put all their photos on Photobucket & their videos on YouTube and shared them with their friends through MySpace.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Santa Monica-based Tsavo , the online media company which owns Manolith, Twirlit, Kidglue, and Nibbledish, has lost its Vice President of Product and Design, Mike Macadaan. Macadaan's departure closely follows the departure of Tsavo founder and CEO Michael Jones, who recently became COO of MySpace.

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Tsavo Twiistup Santa Monica Content 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Design a product or service that you can sell. Sure, you may need to give the product away for free to get traction, but assume you will have to sell something someday to get profitable and stay alive. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

the digital studio/accelerator headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. For forever, the way things have been done, is manufacturers have sold their products at a wholesale price to distributors, distributors sell it to retail outlets, which then sell to consumers. Barak Distin: It was not difficult at all.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.). Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. That said, Photobucket was a “crack filler&# that exited for $250 million to MySpace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2015

Some of you may remember MySpace , which came early to social media, but lost the lead to Facebook by evolving too slowly, many analysts say. A sense of urgency won’t save a bad idea or the wrong team, but the good news is that it will fail faster, allowing people to move on quickly to more productive opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Design a product or service that you can sell. Sure, you may need to give the product away for free to get traction, but assume you will have to sell something someday to get profitable and stay alive. Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Design a product or service that you can sell. Sure, you may need to give the product away for free to get traction, but assume you will have to sell something someday to get profitable and stay alive. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model.

Snapchat 55

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. That gave us a leg up in terms of product visibility, and we were able to go into major record labels and major sports teams, and were on the radar well before other people talked to them. How did this all come about?

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Mobile Santa Monica Content Tool 239

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition. Tony will discuss lessons learned from a business like Myspace, scaling up online marketing programs, and lessons learned in the startup world around momentum and missteps while growing.

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SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

The company also made quite an impression with its viral video --which you have to watch to appreciate--of CEO Michael Dubin extolling the virtues of the company's products, and panning overpriced, expensive razor brands. That's the one we'll mass product. We talked with Dubin earlier about the company. It's David vs. Goliath.

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Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

Our goal is to design effective marketing campaigns that are a natural fit with the Pinterest community and actually enhance the user experience of organic discovery,” Brennan added. Pinterest is also good for brands as it holds the number 2 spot for largest social network, ties with Twitter but bigger than Instagram, Tumblr and Myspace.

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Sales Technical Review Marketing Technology 101

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Parking In Motion (PIM) is a provider of dynamic and real-time parking data.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

the startup studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones--recently launched, and, ahead of Valentine's day, is hoping that love-minded singles will connect through its app. Dating was most interesting to me, because I understood that the legacy dating sites were tied to a legacy, computer product. Why Let's Date? READ MORE>>.

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Mobile eHarmony Artificial Inteligence Sites 189

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Parking In Motion (PIM) is a provider of dynamic and real-time parking data.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands. He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu. Josh Yguado - President SGN.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. So, you need to develop a product? Scrappy versus Steady (Part 1 of a 5 part series: "So, you need to develop a product?") Build a SWAT team 3.

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Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

There are also lots of tools to customize their store front, to match the look and feel of any destination they might have on the web--whether that's a MySpace page, their own site, etc. Most artists are on tour, or playing shows locally, and they need a product to sell at those opportunities. The other is to the fans themselves.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

For example, if you write a letter, you can post it to Facebook, or Myspace, or send a tweet about it--it's all integrated into the product itself. I started designing web sites, at a rudimentary level, right out of college, in 1997. He saw our vision, liked the product, and had gone through something similar.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. Absolutely love your products and do not think about the quick buck. It’s all about execution.

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 88

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands. He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu. Josh Yguado - President SGN. Over $5,000 In Giveaways!

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. In July 2005 News Corporation bought MySpace parent company eUniverse for $580 M, of which approximately $327 M was the valuation of MySpace. Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. Absolutely love your products and do not think about the quick buck. It’s all about execution.

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 65

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? Modern Social Networking: Friendster, MySpace & Facebook. And there it was – MySpace was growing at the exact time we all had cheap digital cameras, smartphones with cameras and new, cheap video cameras like the Flip that allowed us to create video.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. Our goal was to take those observations, and subsequent research, and turn that into commercial products.

Startup 100

Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. is the second largest designated market area (DMA) in the country, so youre starting with a natural talent pool of very interesting people, and also, a market from which to sell your goods and services into. Be extra productive.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Sites like Amazon.com are good at fulfilling products, but I want to learn from other people who are passionate about being green, who are interested in helping and sharing with other people. Sites like MySpace and Facebook can't provide content. What are some things you offer to users on the site? But, we wanted content.

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Social Network Sites Networking Startup 113

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Moonlight Responsibly - If you are still employed please be very careful not to use your company’s resources to produce your product and please do not work on your next idea during business hours. BUT … if you do create the next MySpace, Facebook or Twitter there will be much money at stake. Don’t believe me?

Startup 365

Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. His second venture was Tesla Motors, creating the first production electric car of the modern era. Think the new products are the only big things happening for Apple today? Skip to primary content.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2010

Still, this year was so far from perfect, so far from last year's in production quality, it begs discussion. and lowered production-quality. Best Sound Design in a Web Series: Fear Clinic (Kunal Rajan). Best Live Production in a Web Series: Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show. Here it is: March 28, 2009.

Web 40

Web News Technical Review Writing 40

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. Both systems are threatened in the medium run because alternative supplies of their products will become more plentiful. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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