socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2013

FindTheBest , the online comparison and research site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, said this morning that it has raised $11M in a Series B funding round. According to the company, the new funds will go to enter new market segments, to expand internationally, and build out monetization of its platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not include a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or a new size smart phone. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool. Truly “disruptive” technologies. People are slow to accept change.

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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.

Entrepreneur 210

Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not include a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or a new size smart phone. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool. Truly “disruptive” technologies. People are slow to accept change.

Customer 167

Customer Custom Startup Outsource Development 167

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

Marketing media content from real customers in real time is now commonplace via sites like Yelp, Foursquare, and online reviews. This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. Owned media.

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Marketing Framework Social Media Media 127

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2008

style group messaging services, said today that it has launched a new platform to help groups communicate with their members. The new platform--billed SmartMessage--helps groups send messages among members and others. Newport Beach-based CircleUp, which provides Web 2.0-style

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socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2009

Los Angeles-based Panache , a provider of advertising insertion technology for the online video market, said Monday that the firm is in a partnership with TVO, a media organization based in Ontario focused on public education. Panache said its technology will be used for interactive content enhancement, withing TVO's web games and video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. This popular funding source, where anyone can participate, per the JOBS Act in the US, is exemplified by online sites like Kickstarter. Start a crowdfunding campaign online. Request a small business grant.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. We think it''s really powerful in our platform.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Max Fischer: BeLinked, formerly LinkedUp, is the first, mobile dating app that has the popular swipe left, swipe right feature, but which is based on the LinkedIn platform and LinkedIn API. I go the idea when I was on LinkedIn, and noticed that some of my friends had been actually getting dates through the site. Why LinkedIn?

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Networking Startup Ideas Mobile 185

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. That's why we built FanMix, to solve our own problem, and help our SocialEngine customers to promote their own sites. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value.

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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.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. This popular funding source, where anyone can participate, per the JOBS Act in the US, is exemplified by online sites like Kickstarter. Start a crowdfunding campaign online. Request a small business grant.

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socalTECH

JULY 14, 2016

There are plenty of sites which you can point to which are real estate or rental vertical search engines, but Nestigator is trying to instead turn that into a more collaborative process than you've seen in the past. Right now, you have to go to many sites, and there are some serious problems with all the major players in this sector.

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socalTECH

JULY 14, 2016

Three are plenty of sites which you can point to which are real estate or rental vertical search engines, but Nestigator is trying to instead make that into a more collaborative process than you've seen in the past. Right now, you have to go to many sites, and there are some serious problems with all the major players in this sector.

Sites 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Commerce Social Media Platform 111

socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2013

We also see that, as video technology and platforms, and platforms grow and Internet connections grow stronger, and as the quality of HD video has started to develop, people are more in favor of online lessons as well. What makes the most successful instructors on your site? That''s favorable for us. more) READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

Brendon McQueen: The idea behind the platform, is that over 70 percent of college graduates today have college loans. We launched the site to the public in 2013. Brendon McQueen: We just saw the kind of impact this platform could have on the larger, studen tloan crisis. What was the idea that behind the company? billion dollars.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

Industry-specific networking site Kaleio , has partnered with Indeed.com to include both national and international job listings within the Kaleio Marketplace in a move that is expected to make it a one-stop professional networking and business tool for students and the non-executive workforce. Mashable, and several others.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market. Educate us, and explain what's different about how you are handling ticket sales and how that's different from the many others out there? Wes Brodsky: SaveFans is a negotiation model for the ticketing space.

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Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Startup 253

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

We also are building out sections on the Huffington Post, the Impact and Education brands, with our technology, and powered the AARP's Create The Good site to help in cause marketing and audience engagement. We'll be taking that information out to job sites and financial publications, as a way to enhance the data that is already there.

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Causecast Startup Content Education 222

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. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

Which is why some senior tech leaders (that include Tony Pritzker , Howard Marks and Josh Berman ) banded together to bring the community online through a new site called Built In L.A. Its mission is to connect, educate and promote online innovators that are coming out of L.A.’s that has quietly soft launched this January.

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Startup Mentor Entrepreneur Platform 105

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

But something happened during my Thanksgiving break that has me so extremely pissed off at the predatory practices of a financial institution the preys on the elderly, less educated and lower-income people that can least afford it. Preying not only on lower-income, less educated people but on the elderly. check to me.

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Marketing Startup Education Class 263

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

Editor''s note: we''re cross running this on our Pacific Northwest site, Northwest Innovation, since part of Rightside''s operations are in Seattle.). We''re also partnering with companies like Donuts to provide a platform to host their registry. Talk about what''s going on at Rightside, and what the business looks like now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

Marketing media content from real customers in real time is now commonplace via sites like Yelp, Foursquare, and online reviews. This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. Owned media.

Media 95

Media Framework Social Media Metrics 95

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

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. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Concentrate your efforts on two to three platforms to start. If you already have a strong customer base, create a brief survey to help you determine what social media sites they’re using and how to reach them in a targeted way. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM).

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Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. 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. Time will tell.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2012

All users are protected from things like tracking, stalking and spying by advertisers inside of the site. Your profile, groups and content can never be accessed by somebody outside of the site, and you can only access a private group by being expressly invited in. How many users do you currently have? Interesting Fact.

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Social Network Networking Sites Ideas 106

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. Crickler was originally licensed way back in 2004, because we believed in the title, but the platforms at the time couldn't handle it.

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Mobile Software Review Startup Platform 216

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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Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here.

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Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. The whole platform is build on the software-as-a-service model. READ MORE>>.

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