socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Nimble , the developer of web-based, contact management software, said Thursday that it has enhanced its software to allow users to link any web page to contact records in the product. Nimble is venture backed by Google Ventures, Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge, and Dharmesh Sharma, among others. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne , the CEO and one of the co-founders of FEM, is a veteran of Google, and is taking her experience there and applying it into the video recommendations and engagement area. Rachel Payne: I was working at Google for about eight years, most recently in global strategic alliances. What is FEM? My other cofounder has a Ph.D.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2018

Santa Monica-based sales and marketing customer relationship management (CRM) tools developer Nimble is further integrating its tools with partner Microsoft, and its Office 365 software, as well as Google's G Suite, with a new business dashboarding tool.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

We recently ran into Page Howe , the Chief Engagement Officer for the.LA (www.la) domain name extension, who sat down with us and told us about why he's out making the rounds with community groups and events, promoting the use of.LA Page Howe: LA is a domain name that works perfectly for companies and brands in LA. domain name.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

In other Google-related news, Recode reported that Bill Maris, the founder and president of Google Ventures (now called GV), has left the firm and will be replaced by David Krane. . —The U.S. Alex Lash examined the company’s role, via its biotech subsidiary Verily Life Sciences, in the massive project. —David H.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

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. From the work and feedback, you will learn much on how your solution will fare with customers, before building the product Tap expert sources in other domains for ideas.

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2009

Along with the official launch, the firm said that it has rolled out a new revenue sharing agreement--DocCash--which will split Google AdSense revenue with people who upload documents to the site. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2020

If you are a technical entrepreneur, you can count on early adopters to be first in line for your product, and they are quick to provide feedback on quality, and suggest even more features. Unfortunately, even today many engineers and product developers believe that marketing is just for advertisements.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, 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. portfolios. Do so at your peril.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Our call recovered and we spent the rest of the time talking about the development of their management team and their product. In your VC pitch your PR page should take no longer than 30 seconds – Wait. Many entrepreneurs have a PR page in the PowerPoint deck. Again, I reiterate, it IS important.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. I don’t think that Google would have become the success story we all know without the leadership of Eric Schmidt through the years he led the company. So why did Larry need to return? and Microsoft had become.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Cost per click (CPC).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. Or take a look at their team page to get a sense of why we were so inspired by their vision for the future. Far from it.

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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.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. That makes the lives of developers difficult. What's the story on how you ended up starting Factual from Google? That became the underpinning of several products.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 The Past (1985-2002).

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

While there have been some rather profound successes in the marketplace, there still exists enough uncertainty for many business owners and web developers to hesitate before making a decision on how best to optimize their sites. The good news is there are more than a few ways to improve the chances a visitor will become a customer. .

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Google had huge destination traffic. Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. Overture sold for $1.6

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). We talked about Facebook. Read more: PaidContent.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. If anybody is to show ads you then need to decide: banner ads (how’d that go for MySpace?),

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. We've been at it for awhile, making use of machine learning in lending, and we're now bringing the technology we've developed to businesses around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

million new pages added to the Internet every day, the biggest challenge for every entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. Your Google ranking will go up dramatically.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is? What we wanted to do is allow people to be productive when they wanted to be productive.

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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. What do you mean by social targeting? So who is using your software?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Others shun translucent run-of-site Google ads, because they are distracting and monetize at extremely low rates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Yahoo IBM IBM Startup 59

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product. Gil Elbaz: The primary developer demographic for our products is people building web and mobile applications. Talk about local, and where you're seeing the most usage of your APIs/datasets?

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Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

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. What do you mean by social targeting? So who is using your software?

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features. And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. In our next meeting I asked them how often it crashed. Is it 4/1,000?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2009

There's been a lot of attention lately given to Google's efforts to digitize books for libraries, as well controversy over the firm's licensing efforts with publishers. Let's talk about your product first, tell us about your hardware? We use a Camera SLR camera, which works with any of our three products out there.

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