socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Impact , which develops software used by brands to manage partnership and affiliate programs, has launched a new product to help those companies with managing mobile linking. The company recently raised a huge $75M funding round, led by private equity investor rovidence Strategic Growth (PSG). READ MORE>>.

Mobile 113

Mobile Ticketmaster Santa Barbara Equity 113

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2011

Los Angeles-based SeeVolution , the online web analytics and heatmap firm headed by Edo Cohen, has raised $530,000 in angel funding, the firm said this morning. The firm says it has now raised over $730,000 in funding from angel investors. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

Angel 187

Angel Web Los Angeles Funding 187

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The founder explains that the product or service is so “buzz-worthy” that the merits will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 139

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 139

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs the last couple of years is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Good-cause crowd funding. Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page.

Funding 99

Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 99

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs these days is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. This new model will allow large numbers of “regular” people to invest small amounts each online to fund early startups.

Funding 96

Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

Last week, Los Angeles-based Chill (www.chill.com) made a stab at that, debuting a new front page meant to guide user to the most interesting videos on the web, through an easy-to-use interface. What's the whole new front page all about? It's exactly what it sounds like, a front page of video.

Startup 254

Startup Guide Redpoint Content 254

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. I worked with the head of each product area, such as YouTube, on how to drive more value for our large partners. How is your company funded, and where are you now? even though we''re at the bottom of the page.

Google 233

Google Content Startup Venice 233

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

Jamie Siminoff , the former CEO of Unsubscribe.com, has a new project, and--rather than angel of venture capital funding--he's turned to none other than Kickstarter to fund it. POP's project page on Kickstarter says it expects to be able to charge 10 iPhones at a time using the device. READ MORE>>.

Venture Capital 113

Venture Capital Funding Capital Product 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Fullerton-based Hipgeo , the developers of iPhone apps for tracking and logging your travels, said today that it has launched a new version of its product which is specifically aimed at travelers.

eHarmony 154

eHarmony Yahoo San Diego Blogging 154

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

San Diego-based Verve Wireless , the developer of mobile publishing tools for the Associated Press, McClatchy, Belo Interactive, and other publishers, said this morning that it has raised $7M more in additional funding. According to Verve, the new funding will go towards further development and expansion of products.

News 154

News Mobile Press San Diego 154

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2021

If you are a young startup founder, how do you find that CEO or other executive for your “dream team” to close on funding or complement your skills to kick start your company? Even with a good CFO, your CEO is the top fund raiser. Most founders are product guys. Craft an operational plan and make it work.

Startup 163

Startup eHarmony Networking Guide 163

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

Investors are looking for breakthrough solutions to fund. What I don’t see often are new solutions that force me to rethink how we work together, or really use AI to make the collaboration process more productive. Assimilate a team with the range of skills you need in your business, including development, operations, and marketing.

Startup 134

Startup Artificial Inteligence Ideas Entrepreneur 134

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Status of the solution. In addition, manufacturing and inventory levels will be reviewed.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 118

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The two renamed themselves Seedling, and announced a new funding round from Upfront Venturess. We have around 350 products all aimed at kids of all kinds of ages. We have an impulse activity line, combined with a party line as well, and the products developed by P.S. XO. The two most important are Pinterst and mobile.

Commerce 138

Commerce Mobile Startup Product 138

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Los Angeles-based Shopit, a developer of online shopping widget software, said today that it has raised $2.5M in a Series B funding. The funding came from Toronto, Canada-based Emerson Ventures and Propulsion Ventures. ShopIt said that the round is the first tranche of a $7M capital raise planned for the firm. READ MORE>>

Social Network 113

Social Network Blogging Los Angeles Advertising 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

As a simple example, the Wal-Mart website now shows shoppers more products that they may like, based on previous purchases. The Wal-Mart home page is customized for each shopper based on location, local weather, and the customer search and purchase history. These have the vision and the resources to fund long-term digital success.

Competition 142

Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

socalTECH

AUGUST 21, 2009

A new effort by Facebook to expand their "Gift Shop" application to third party developers has roped in San Diego-based RealGifts as one of its first partners, according to reports this week. RealGifts, which has received funding from the Facebook fbFund, has been providing its service on Facebook since July of last year.

Social Network 164

Social Network San Diego Networking Report 164

socalTECH

MAY 13, 2009

DocStoc, which is venture funded by Rustic Canyon Partners, also said that it has redesigned its home page to feature documents by breaking news and most sought-after professional documents, and added a new API which allows developers to upload, convert documents, and manage documents from third party products or services.

Rustic Canyon 140

Rustic Canyon Santa Monica Advertising News 140

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 107

Marketing Invest SEM Startup 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. You probably want at least a home page, product page, order page, and contact page. Personalize a simple web site. Life is more fun that way.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

Many of you have read or at least know the primary thesis of “ Crossing the Chasm &# the seminal book on marketing your products to mainstream consumers by Geoffrey Moore. We like to use new product and gain benefits before our peers. It influenced a generation of tech marketers. We are evangelists.

Marketing 294

Marketing Customer Custom Technical Review 294

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. You probably want at least a home page, product page, order page, and contact page. Personalize a simple web site. Life is more fun that way.

Commerce 99

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 99

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I had intended to talk about how bad the process could become, not to name-and-shame anybody (and The Funded was not yet around). I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Develop an efficient and effective writing style.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. The platform can be divided into three products.

Mobile 197

Mobile Startup Platform GRP Partners 197

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. I have seen really great product people espouse the death of the business plan. Do so at your peril.

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. They are tasked with “getting deals done” so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc.

Activity 164

Activity Conference Press Case Study 164

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Our interview today is with Alan Horsager , the CEO of Pasadena-based Episona (www.episona.com), an angel backed startup which has already developed and has been offering up an epigenetic test for male fertility. Our first product is called Seed, which is a screening test for male infertility. Let's talk about the recent funding round?

USC 100

USC Technical Review Startup Southern California 100

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

We develop a set of tools for lenders, which lets them take advantage of machine learning to produce incredibly more accurate credit decisions, and which make those decisions much more transparent and fair. Jay Budzik: Some of what you're seeing is actually old funding for a direct to consumer business we used to have.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Tool CIO Customer 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. You probably want at least a home page, product page, order page, and contact page. Personalize a simple web site. Life is more fun that way.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2022

SoLo Funds. For example, a smaller business with $10-20,000 in monthly revenue will only need to spend a monthly $25 on FinMark's product, while a business that makes over $1 million will be spending $2,500 a month on FinMark. In no particular order, here are seven tech companies to watch out for in 2022. Looking at the year ahead.

Startup 200

Startup Invest FAQ Examples 200

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. They have production facilities in Mexico where they have been creating lower-cost video for traditional TV for many years and they pivoted this facility to producing for YouTube.

Invest 291

Invest Content Media Networking 291

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products. Out of that 1,000 pages, only 5-10 ads tend to get clicks.

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. We create a page which starts at first rumor, and engages and supports those projects.

Startup 164

Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. Similar with product features.

Startup 323

Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products. Out of that 1,000 pages, only 5-10 ads tend to get clicks.

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100