Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Think of these as the future version of the old “computer clubs,” or today’s multi-player game platforms.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I was also thinking about how you could use this for education. The possibilities in education could be endless. For those of you that do not know what Unity is, it is a cross platform gaming programing suite that allows you to make games for phones, tablets, desktops, the web browser, gaming handhelds and consoles.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace. Google is great at search, yet their G+ social network wasn’t the most successful. Search Meets Social = Commerce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. Brett Rossman: We have a platform we''ve built, and which we are constantly evolving called Magneto.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

The partnership is expected to offer working-class professionals access to job listings directly posted within Kaleio’s Marketplace and additional job and internship listings from leading companies, including Amazon, Google, Starbucks, The New York Times , Yahoo!, Will there be any integration between the two platforms?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 We’re a busy bunch.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Social analytics and personalization platform GraphDive has closed $2 million in its first ever equity round from Crosslink Capital, Correlation Ventures, Plug & Play Tech Center, Start Capital and angel investors Pejman Nozad, Ullas Naik and Scott Banister. $2 2 million equity round. Social login tools.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 16, 2015

There are so many angles and things to consider and you need to make educated tradeoffs. You just need to submit the app you sent to the Google Play Store to the Amazon store. Also, Google launched Android Wear and took another crack at TV with the Nexus Player. Apple also demoed their watch.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. We had executives from the studios like Fox, Warner Bros and Disney.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2017

We like to call it a coordination platform. Ken Brook: Part of our job at MetaX is educating the industry. This is a protocol that allows not only for coordination, but efficiency, and gives you the ability to trust the industry you operate in, and be successful and independent of Google and Facebook.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Google x Facebook x Amazon) + (Universal Reviews). Blends Facebook, Pinterest, Google & Twitter creating world’s 1st social shopping network" and "Think Flipboard and Hootsuite In One.". Yammer for Education) & explanatory (e.g., If "LinkedIn and match.com had a baby who went to law school.". But better. Explanatory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. He was raised and educated in London.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The company also educates people about their rights on capture data when interacting with law enforcement. DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform. And for those that run on Google, having an extra layer of protection against ransomware or hacks could save businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

In a recent book by David Cushman with Jamie Burke, “ The 10 Principles of Open Business ,” the authors contend that many recent success stories in business, including Google, Apple, and Amazon, were built on at least one open business principle. Encourage collaboration by providing the platform, and setting best practices.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

That business includes our main registrar platform, which supports 20,000 resellers around the world, and also includes such acquisition as we''ve done such as name.com, domain auctions with Namejet, and a bunch of other activities. We''re also partnering with companies like Donuts to provide a platform to host their registry.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Following graduate school, he worked in Film Finance and Sales at CAA, Creative Development at Vuguru (Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio), and Content Partnerships at Blip Networks. Learn how to get it seen and monetized from Mike Tringe, previously of Blip Networks and Vuguru, Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Milo Sindell: Knowledge Genie is a software platform that anybody can use to capture, package, and publish what they know into an interactive online software application. As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. What is the idea behind Knowledge Genie? How did the company start?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I have some educated guesses. The one big concern many people had was how to constrain the total dominance of Google. Every startup (every company, really) was beholden to the traffic god that was Google search. Also note that AJAX finally took off when Google open-sourced a bunch of its internally built AJAX frameworks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

In a new book by David Cushman with Jamie Burke, “ The 10 Principles of Open Business ,” the authors contend that many recent success stories in business, including Google, Apple, and Amazon, were built on at least one open business principle. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

GumGum’s goal is to continue educating the market and selling the product – they’re expecting 400% growth next year. If our user’s eyes moved to mobile overnight, we’ve enabled the ability to smoothly go across platforms so our units can work well for all devises and streams.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. This no doubt led to the acquisition of AdMob by Google and Quattro by Apple.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. Go Boulder!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

In the spirit of Conventional Wisdom Isn’t , the founders of Campus Explorer did not, “flow with the go” when they founded their higher-education website. Exploring The Campus. Campus Explorer earns most of its revenue through lead-generation. However, the Founders understood the inherent limitations of a services business.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

We know language education is a huge market, with 1/7 of people around the world learning a new language. Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We are an online ordering platform, that helps restaurants enhance their web presence and the profitability of their brand. For managed services, we offer marketing services, including email marketing, social media, Google Adwords, and Facebook ads, which is a monthly recurring charge. What is Clorder?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

As social media becomes a platform for online extremists, valid questions regarding freedom of speech, monitoring and censorship have arisen. The industry will continue to invest heavily in educating people and convincing them to try internet security products (free versions & life-time trials).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

What we've done, we've made this as simple as Google. We thought it was time to jump in, and thankfully, the company had spent a significant amount of time educating the market, and we though the timing was perfect. We've gotten over 80 paying customers in our five months we've been deployed. How does your service work?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Both Waxman and Elbaz are serial entrepreneurs, with many successes under their belt (Elbaz with Applied Semantics, which he sold to Google, Waxman with such companies as Firefly Networks, SpotRunner, and PeoplePC). We also have investments in Divshot, which is offering a tool for engineers, which is based out of the Launchpad LA accelerator.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Two Bit Circus combines engineering, education, and amusement to create physical marvels fueled by technology. It connects to your linkedin, facebook and google accounts and allows you to collect feedback from any of your connections securely, simply and very quickly. Cookbook Cafe is the new DIY publishing platform from L.A.-based

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

Take Watson , IBM’s artificial intelligence platform as an example: it has advanced significantly since it handily defeated human opponents on the Jeopardy game show four years ago. And what about Apple’s CarPlay or Android Auto by Google ? That’s probably a reason why Google decided to go with the newly developed Android Auto.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

What we did, instead, was enable affiliates, particularly on higher margin or more complex products like insurance, travel, or education--to call someone. As technology people, we all live and breathe Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and AOL. But, they have not built a platform for the affiliate marketing industry.

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