Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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Startup Education Tool Entrepreneur 108

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

We try to make it very easy for the average consumer to get more financial information, content, and ultimately, product, in the financial industry. We wanted to make the topics, information, and content relevant to people as they came into the ecosystem. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M What is Stackin'? How did the company start?

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Content Social Media Startup Artificial Inteligence 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Today's contribution is from Brad Brooks , the co-founder and CEO of TigerText , which provides clinical communication solutions for the healthcare industry, and also co-founder of anonymous social media app Whisper. You can see all of our holiday reflections here. What's was biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year?

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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.

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Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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Entrepreneur Tips Startup Education 137

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2022

We all want to be entertained. With the current data overload, we remember someone who does more than inform us. Think of the popularity and power of social media – the average daily usage worldwide is now up to 136 minutes per day. We yearn for things that engage our senses, and give us hope.

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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.

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Media Framework Social Media Metrics 95

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information. What is Tilofy about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

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. Marty Zwilling.

Marketing 100

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

We make it really easy for consumers to compare information across similar retailers, and find the best deals. For a consumer, that makes it difficult to find and compare information. All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Bedloo is a social media voting platform for those who want to find the right answer in life. TechZulu catches up with one of the co-founders of Bedloo, Vincent Plummer, and talks to us about social media, startups, and Bedloo. We are all coming from a background in entertainment. Which video was funnier?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

It gives us the ability to do what we love, which it to create engagement and content that people find entertaining, informative, and authoritative, and moves an audience, and introduces the right kind of selective sponsors and clients to that engaged audience, in a respectful way. It ends up being good for both. That is amazing.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

Right now, that''s a jumble of different social services, websites, and more--which is the problem that Yapert (www.yapert.com) thinks it has solved. What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Los Angeles-based Sometrics, the venture backed developer of analytics products for the social networking and social media industry, has launched another product, the firm announced this morning. The firm said it has launched what it is calling a "virtual currency platform" to handle virtual currency.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Synhergy Marketing originally was a company setup to be a full service marketing company for the entertainment industry – the record label, the webzine, everything you would need as an artist. What kind of services, deeper than social media, do you provide to your customer base? We’re doing this already.

Social Media 99

Social Media Startup Media Writing 99

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.

Advertising 66

Advertising Marketing Startup Framework 66

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

We all want to be entertained. With the current data overload, we remember someone who does more than inform us. Think of the popularity and power of social media – the average daily usage worldwide is now up to 136 minutes per day. We yearn for things that engage our senses, and give us hope.

Startup 102

Startup Custom Customer Social Media 102

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Consumers all have access to social networks, but the business-side has never really caught on. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. In one line, Solaborate is a social and collaboration platform for the technology industry.

Social Media 92

Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

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.

Media 101

Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

As outlined a while back by Adam Holden-Bache on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, still waiting to be found: Find strategic partnerships. If your B2B contacts check-in regularly at certain types of locations (entertainment venues, stores, etc.)

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Competition Entertainment Advertising Social Media 84

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. Valuable personality traits in his previous life working in entertainment, no doubt. FROM THE BEGINNING. Crazy right?

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Entertainment Advertising Startup Media 98

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

In plain English, they’ve redesigned the site so that it is more interactive from a social media perspective and not just for viewers but for their content producers and advertising partners. They could provide more detailed information about the content producers or the shows. To date, Blip.tv

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

Entertainment." Next up was Nick Tran, Taco Bell''s "Social Media Lead." However, Nick was able to pimp tacos and hot sauce, while informing the crowd how Taco Bell''s "no strings attached" collaboration with YouTube personalities has driven significant brand attachment. Never heard of VidCon? Border Run.

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Course Advertising Social Media Content 190

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. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies? What are the risks and rewards?

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

As outlined a while back by Adam Holden-Bache on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, along the following lines: Strategic partnerships. If your B2B contacts check-in regularly at certain types of locations (entertainment venues, stores, etc.)

Services 82

Services Competition Mobile Entertainment 82

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

Startup 51

Startup Education Tool Entrepreneur 51

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2014

In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools. Social media, like Facebook, allow them to convince themselves that they are engaging on a personal level, even when they aren’t. Thus customers and partners rely more and more on personal engagement with people.

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Custom Customer Startup Content 99

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2014

Recently purchased by the social media giant, Facebook, the Oculus began as a Kickstarter project that achieved a massive amount of support on the internet. Wearable health systems also let patients keep track of their own information in real time.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Google 88

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools. Social media, like Facebook, allow them to convince themselves that they are engaging on a personal level, even when they aren’t. Thus customers and partners rely more and more on personal engagement with people.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Startup Content Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Something that until now has been information held by an individual, spreadsheet, or your old fashion paper on a clip board. Venues will also be able to setup custom promotions and reward their loyal guests as a result of the social media features built as a front-end to the professional business tool.

Social Media 56

Social Media Media Custom Customer 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2011

As outlined by Adam Holden-Bache recently on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, along the following lines: Strategic partnerships. If your B2B contacts check-in regularly at certain types of locations (entertainment venues, stores, etc.) Thought leadership.

Services 91

Services Startup Competition Entertainment 91

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

We all want to be entertained. With the current data overload, we remember someone who does more than inform us. Think of the popularity and power of social media – the average daily usage worldwide is now up to 135 minutes per day. We yearn for things that engage our senses, and give us hope.

Marketing 69

Marketing Startup Social Media Content 69

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I’ve always respected your work and perspective on internet businesses and social media so I wanted to pick your brain about opportunities in this space for consulting and full-time employment; how do I position myself? We just reconnected and so far, what is it we would have talked about if we got together in person? Or maybe not.

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