socalTECH
JULY 16, 2012
With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks. The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners.
InfoChachkie
JULY 16, 2012
Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks. Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. 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.
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Berkonomics
JULY 19, 2012
There is a life cycle for any product, and it is much shorter on average today than five years ago, especially in the technology world. Companies that are successful with their first product must begin thinking about the costs of additional products or of that product’s replacement well before any evidence of a peak in sales is noticed. There are rules of thumb for various industries in creating a reserve for research and development.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 20, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012 -- Social Media School - Beginners. It's time to learn about social media and how it can assist you in your personal and professional life. Email Amani@woodsidemediagroup.com.
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socalTECH
JULY 18, 2012
In a mobile world, what's a unique way to reach out to your friends and others? One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. Los Angeles-based SnapCuts (www.snapcuts.com) does just that, allow users to tap into a wide collection of clips, which can be re-mixed, combined with text, and sent to your friends.
InfoChachkie
JULY 18, 2012
The following guest post is from Eric Greenspan, Founder and CEO of MakeItWork, a consumer facing, in-home tech support service. Entrepreneurs are inundated with success stories, but far less is written about ventures that do not succeed. Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan. . Most entrepreneurs do not have the guts to publicly discuss a venture gone awry.
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SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 20, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012 -- Growth Capital Conference. Network with capital sources,advisors,dealmakers and 100 entrepreneurs seeking capital and counsel. DEAL DISPLAYtm showcases attractive firms needing growth capital. View products, videos, online demos. Hot Networking Breakfast at 7:00 AM sharp!
socalTECH
JULY 17, 2012
You've just spent millions developing your own rocket to launch to space, created your own space capsule, convinced NASA to let you launch it into space, and have astronauts connect it to the International Space Station. What do you do next? Create a highlights video, set to music -- of course. SpaceX sent out a link to its music video on Tuesday afternoon, highlighting the launch of its last mission, the first time a privately developed, commercial vehicle docked with the ISS.
InfoChachkie
JULY 20, 2012
The following guest post comes from the blog of GraphEffect. GraphEffect has delivered billions of impressions, millions of fans and unparalleled ROI for a variety of global brands on Facebook and Twitter, including: American Express, Disney, Walmart Bacardi and VISA. I an investor in GraphEffect via Rincon Venture Partners. At the Ad:Tech conference in April, our very own CEO James Borow gave a pretty awesome speech about why social gets to win, emphasizing the new tracking phenomenon of vir
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 16, 2012
If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Don’t be embarrassed, since even professional investors are often confused these days by the new terms, as well as old terms used with new meanings. In any case, it’s time to look again at the options you really have.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 20, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012 -- Growth Capital Conference. Network with capital sources, advisors, dealmakers and 100 entrepreneurs seeking capital and counsel. DEAL DISPLAYtm showcases attractive firms needing growth capital. View products, videos, on-line demos.
socalTECH
JULY 19, 2012
A mobile app new project by a local, Los Angeles team has taken to Kickstarter to help fund its efforts to create an animated, interactive caveman for your iPhone and iPad. The team -- made up of veterans from local, Silicon Beach technology companies -- said it is developing Club Caveman , a mobile app that combines movie-quality animation with all the interactivity of an iPad or iPhone.
InfoChachkie
JULY 15, 2012
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 14, 2012
Within the startup realm, there is a big difference between having an innovative product versus an innovative business. Some startups have a new technology, but stick to a tried-and-true business model. Others take an existing product, and give it new life with a creative business model. The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 19, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012 -- Crowdfunding Presentation with Stubbs Alderton and Markiles, LLP. Join us for an indepth presentation on Crowdfunding. This presentation will provide an update on the latest developments in crowdfunding, including: The implications to crowdfunding from the JOBS Act; How small businesses can use crowdfunding to raise funds for their business; Some of the restrictions and potential advantages and pitfalls of crowdfunding.
socalTECH
JULY 16, 2012
Are you an Instagram user, and really wished you could print your favorite Instagram photo on a T-shirt? Well, now you can, thanks to Los Angeles startup Insteegram. Insteegram is offering up custom T-shirts made from the photos of Instagram users, printed on an American Apparel t-shirt. The service allows Instagram users to simply log into Instagram and select the photo they'd like to print on a shirt, and have it delivered to them via mail.
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 20, 2012
Last week, I attended an event hosted by The Los Angeles User Experience Meetup at Cross Campus in Santa Monica. World renowned speaker and author, Eric Reiss presented the teachings of his new book, Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better. He is the Content Strategist and CEO of FatDUX, headquartered in Copahagen, Denmark, a global company specializing in user experience with offices worldwide in Los Angeles, Budapest, Zagreb and Prague.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 20, 2012
The ultimate compliment that any entrepreneur can get is that they can “see around corners.” This is a statement that they are willing and able (and successful) at projecting market and technology turns, not just straight-line innovations. They have the courage to make bold decisions, often contrary to conventional market research. Steve Jobs of Apple has been maybe the most visible example of this phenomenon, but others often mentioned include Richard Branson (Virgin Group), Joe Costello (Caden
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 19, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012 -- Tech Coast Angels Open Forum. Listen to Angels, Investors, Venture Capitalists and Catalysts and what they have to say about investing and being investor ready. Pitch your business, idea or concept through live video feed and hear feedback from industry veterans. Ask questions and learn. Special Guest, Richard Koffler.
socalTECH
JULY 17, 2012
Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the mobile marketing and mobile video technology firm headed by James Citron, has launched a new product today, aimed at providing monetization of MMS messages. The firm said its new AdStitch mobile advertising service ads pre-roll and post-roll adds to MMS videos, which allows companies to combine advertisements with MMS video messages.
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 16, 2012
Signaling an overall shift away from costly hardware in favor of affordable cloud-based voice and text messaging services for the commercial and non-profit sectors, CallFire announced that it has surpassed 50,000 users. CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2012
Most startup founders know exactly what they want to design and sell, and they are personally convinced that everyone will buy one. Yet they often fail to realize that their view is likely biased, and will be instantly discounted by potential investors. Business plans with no “industry expert” data on your target opportunity size and growth are routinely rejected.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 19, 2012
Friday, July 20, 2012 -- Green LAVA Meeting. Los Angeles launched its cleantech business incubator to accelerate development of cleantech start-ups by offering flexible office space, CEO coaching and mentoring, and access to a growing network of experts and capital. LACIis the business equivalent of baseball?s farm system: it identifies local talent, nurtures it, and helps it get to market, resulting in more jobs and a bigger green economy in Los Angeles.
socalTECH
JULY 19, 2012
Los Angeles investor Baroda Ventures , the venture capital arm of David Bohnett, has re-upped on online fashion and e-commerce site Fab.com , in a big, $105M third round of funding for that site. Baroda has been an investor in Fab since its seed funding back in June of 2010. Fab.com said the new funding round was led by Atomico, and also included Pinnacle Ventures, re-Net Technology Partners, Mayfield Fund, DoCoMo, Menlo VEntures, Andreessen-Horowitz, and First Round Capital.
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 18, 2012
Telephone booths will be brought back to life again , thanks to a new city program installing Wi-Fi in telephone booths across the city. The pay phones will be fitted with top range antennas to enable the service be accessible to users in a 300 feet radius. The service is being installed by Van Wagner Communications at $2,000. The firm owns most of the city’s payphone’s and will spread the Wi-Fi hotspots to 13,000 pay phones but the pay phone companies will run the service.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 17, 2012
Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. They run into difficulty when their business reaches the $1-2 million annual sales range, or their employee count exceeds 5-10. It’s here that entrepreneurs must shift their thinking from tactical and operational, to strategic and managerial.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 -- Rock Star Marketing. You have this epic product (or idea). It's like totally going to totally disrupt the universe. But the only people that know about it are you and your mom in your basement. Marketing is at the core of everything. You market to investors. You market to vendors. You market to your employees and you market to recruit the best employees.
socalTECH
JULY 16, 2012
A new, Los Angeles startup At The Pool , headed by Alex Capecelatro, has started letting users sign on to the service, helping to match them based on their location, interests, and other information. The startup said its first, public pool, "siliconbeach", is aimed at locals in the Silicon Beach area. At The Pool is the latest incarnation of Hyphos, Capecalatro's effort to help create a social discovery platform to connect people you don't know, based on their interests.
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 19, 2012
Microsoft in late June announced to have acquired social network for enterprises Yammer at $ 1.2 billion.But the deal has been fully completed today. According to the Jared Spataro Senior Director, Office Division, Microsoft in a blog post the firm had met all the requirements regarding the acquisition. He says,” all closing conditions for Microsoft’s acquisition of Yammer have been met, and the deal is completed”.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 18, 2012
An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? The right answer is that not all of these are worth your attention, but it’s probably more than one. The “Tyranny of the OR” is a concept from the business best-seller “ Built to Last ,” by James C.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 -- LA Ad Tech Happy Hour. Come hang out with the Ad Tech community in Los Angeles for a no-host happy hour. If you geek out over the Ad Tech, OMMA and Digiday conferences, this is for you. If you print LUMA Partners' lumascapes to hang on your wall, this is for you. If you hang on Mary Meeker's every word, this is for you. If you quote eMarketer's estimates in your sleep, this is for you.
socalTECH
JULY 17, 2012
Los Angeles-based online marketing and domain firm Oversee.net has named Gene Chuang as its new Chief Technology Officer, the company said today. Chuang was most recently Director of Engineering at online college textbook firm Chegg. He also was previously Executive Director at AT&T Interactive, and also was Director of Engineering at Yahoo Search Marketing.
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 18, 2012
AT&T announced their own Mobile Share plans this morning. Customers will soon have more options in choosing the plan that’s right for them and their mobile devices. With new AT&T Mobile Share plans, available in late August, new and existing customers can share a single bucket of data across smartphones, tablets, and other compatible devices.
Frank Addante
JULY 20, 2012
If you want to manage a hyper-growth company, start with a great product. Here’s how. The best product wins. Period. With a great product comes great customers, and with customers comes revenue and profit, which in turn can be used to build more great products. It’s a continuous cycle. That’s why I believe so strongly in a product-driven organization.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 18, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 -- The Tech Coast Angels presents MEET THE ANGELS. Are you thinking about starting your own company or in the early stages? The Tech Coast Angels invites San Diego's up and coming entrepreneurs to "Meet the Angels" that can help you make your dream come true. Hosted by Sheppard Mullin, this evening is an incredible opportunity for entrepreneurs to connect with local angel investors before starting on this journey.
socalTECH
JULY 16, 2012
San Diego-based Tealium , a developer of tag management software for online marketers, said this morning that it has raised $10.5M in a Series B funding. The firm said the round was led by Battery Ventures, and will go towards funding growth across the company, including product development, plus staffing in marketing, sales, and account management.
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