socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. Scott Grimes: Ultimately, we are a text messaging platform build on top of Twilio. What we do, is we take them from social media into a one-to-one relationship, via text, directly to their phone.

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Content Social Media Startup Artificial Inteligence 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings. Introduce disruptive technologies to this domain.

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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.

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Equity Social Media Google Tool 65

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

Advertising 66

Advertising Marketing Startup Framework 66

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2017

For example, if I don’t know you, and you didn’t sell your last company for $800 million, your story needs to educate me on why anyone would bet on you to succeed, and how you would reward me for success. Don’t forget that investors invest in people, more than ideas. The first secret is to know your audience before you pitch.

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StartUp Beat

JUNE 22, 2018

That’s a large part of why he decided to create LawMaker.io , which bills itself as a revolutionary platform that gives those in the U.S. Touting itself as a “free lobby for the lobbyless,” Thakkar said its a platform that could very much change the face of U.S. ” Lawmaker.io

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Southern California 150

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media.

Organization 57

Organization Social Media Customer Custom 57

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

Media 101

Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. 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.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media.

Organization 93

Organization Social Media Customer Custom 93

socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

Bill Curtis: It's by far the most exciting platform right now. More importantly, if you look at different media these days, the type of engagement and length of engagement is at risk. More importantly, if you look at different media these days, the type of engagement and length of engagement is at risk. Why podcasting?

Media 150

Media Report Advertising Content 150

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. Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15). In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

The Bitcoinference served as day 1 of 2 for 500 Startups’ “Commercism” series, with an official agenda that covered industry happenings, social dynamics, and a look into the investment environment. Our panel notes that Bitcoin’s problems are as much to do with public perception as they are to do with education.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

I have two successful exits, mostly in mobile and teh web, as well as social media. 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 invested our own money, about $150,000, and took $150,000 in bridge financing.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company.

Social Media 113

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company.

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Its an event that provides a platform for the worldwide twitter community to: listen, connect, share and engage with each other, while collectively exploring the effects of the emerging real-time internet on business. Carlos R (@CarlosHernandez) - Social media educator & co-creator of Social Media for the Uncomfortable.

Social Media 40

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging.

Newsletter 233

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

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).

Commerce 40

Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

The emergence of Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the social Web as a global force in the last several years has done a great deal to highlight their potential to fundamentally alter the way we communicate and collaborate both at home and in business. This is the same with competing activity streams in various social networks.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

In 2009, after their first round of investment, they launched internationally. The service can be accessed by computer, mobile phone ( iPhone , Android ) or social network ( Facebook ). The majority of our users are highly educated, young professionals between 25-39 years of age. Any user stats? later this year. In the U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping Marketing Strategy, social media marketing, web applications. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization cosmetics, social media, women in tech. . jim spencer, media convergence group. Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. . Post-Launch: Marketing Web Apps on a Budget.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Yet the number of businesses looking to build on the Facebook platform seems to have increased.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. I have learned lots of lessons over the past 20 years about technology, entrepreneurship and investments. Tags: Social Media Tech Market Analysis.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. At some point it will be quite obvious whether the super angels’ investments and strategy succeed or fail. They ignore/disrespect the platform. Yesterday he outlined his investment thesis on his blog. at a $2.5M

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