socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. How did you start the company? What's the biggest lesson you've learned so far in starting up a company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

But startups need to remember that even zero paid media doesn’t mean that marketing is free. New products and startups often require a culture shift to drive acceptance, which can best be accelerated by zealots or a visible chief disciple, like Steve Jobs. They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. We caught up with Matthias Galica , the firm's founder, to hear more about the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In business vernacular, targets are usually called metrics. A good metric has to be easily measurable, and directly correlated to results, rather than hours worked. For example, for a sales person, this metric number would likely measure new revenue or new customers. Provide incentives to focus everyone on real results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

But startups need to remember that even zero paid media doesn’t mean that marketing is free. New products and startups often require a culture shift to drive acceptance, which can best be accelerated by zealots or a visible chief disciple, like Steve Jobs. Maarten Albarda entrepreneur zero marketing startup Joseph Jaffe business'

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The Annual TechZulu Startup Forecast is one of our most anticipated events. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. In addition, we had a fully stacked line up of showcasing startups with Causora , Floshare , Kiosked , and Yekra.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This nuanced approach can cater to the most specific of viewer moods and preferences, ensuring a seamless entertainment experience. Initial Query Refinement: Initial query is the starting point in any search process where a user provides an initial query to the system. Strive for a balanced outcome.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

But startups need to remember that even zero paid media doesn’t mean that marketing is free. New products and startups often require a culture shift to drive acceptance, which can best be accelerated by zealots or a visible chief disciple, like Steve Jobs. They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

We caught up with Rachel recently to hear more about the company. I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. I also lead our media and entertainment vertical practice. How did you end up in Los Angeles? The metrics are very solid. What is FEM?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. The focus is on helping the startup.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

But startups need to remember that even zero paid media doesn’t mean that marketing is free. New products and startups often require a culture shift to drive acceptance, which can best be accelerated by zealots or a visible chief disciple, like Steve Jobs. entrepreneur marketing paid media social media startup zero'

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Ever since sound was first introduced into movies, the entertainment business has never really faced a huge change. However, the online presence has shifted the entertainment landscape drastically and is threatening to change the business for better or for worse. TechZulu: Where did the idea of Filmzu start?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. Once we decided to do this, we started looking for a Dan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

In my work with small businesses and startups, I routinely find owners who rely on guessing at key customer drivers, and let their passion drive product focus, rather than data. The days of manual reservations and receipts are behind us, whether it be with rides, clothing, meals, or entertainment.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler, a video engagement platform for web and mobile publishers has launched new features and the next generation of its video engagement platform in a move that will power engagement for sports, entertainment and news publishers a like. Watch video metrics, track performance. Customized content.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. We caught up with co-founder Clark Landry to chat about his new startup, which he co-founded with Michael Ritter.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2014

No matter where my earphones are, they magically seemed to be tangled up in a knot. It’s one of life’s longest mysteries; no matter if you lay them flat or wrapped around a phone, wires will always end up tangled. More Bluetooth-enabled devices are showing up on the market and less wires have to be dealt with.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We caught up with Zach James and Rich Raddon , co-founders of MOVIECLIPS, to learn more about the company and also hear about the firm's funding round. Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film. I ran the Los Angeles Film Festival for a decade.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

My friend Ethan Anderson put it best to me after the panel, “You probably shouldn’t have been up there. I wrote about it here (mostly starting at point 7) and Chris Dixon wrote a great post about it here. So in the past we needed VC to really get a startup going. I said almost nothing in the 30 minutes.

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Frank Addante

MAY 18, 2016

While storytelling may have been formerly relegated to the entertainment industry, it’s gained a special significance in the tech world. Here are some elements of storytelling that are useful for anyone, whether you are a Sundance filmmaker or pitching your startup. Have a Hero: Heroes have purpose and overcome obstacles.

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Frank Addante

MAY 18, 2016

While storytelling may have been formerly relegated to the entertainment industry, it’s gained a special significance in the tech world. Here are some elements of storytelling that are useful for anyone, whether you are a Sundance filmmaker or pitching your startup. Have a Hero: Heroes have purpose and overcome obstacles.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. What’s keeping you up at night?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce. The startups have so much potential and we’re really eager to see how they will continue to push the culture of global technology forward. Ninja Metrics. Hitesh Chawla, CEO. Silver Push.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Yet, I couldn’t duplicate what I had very easily, so I went back to the drawing board and came up with a new design and Cojoin is that new design. There’s aggregation, so like in the entertainment industry, audience measurement is huge. What do you think about LA as a startup area? I say that’s a big part of it. Plus, sunshine.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

These metrics-application rely on our need to know our “value” and will only continue to perpetuate the dilution of online engagement. Start there, and you’ll probably come out ahead. Klout, PeerIndex, Kred, and even Empire Avenue need to go away. 02% from tweets.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

Startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, such as potential partnerships, new products, entering emerging markets, etc. The process started with Mr. Gordy and a non-partisan Assistant deciding which songs would be evaluated. The Motown Sound Alike.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

eCommerce, as Volusion wraps up $35M with Silicon Valley Bank. The morning, spent with the incredible group of entrepreneurs fostering # bigDOCC (Big “D” Open Coffee Club – Dallas that is ), was focused on not just what it means to be a startup in Dallas, but Texas, and the role that industry plays therein.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Something from a motivational panel, discussing Biz Dev strategies or maybe how to launch a lean start up. Her description starts off with a standup meeting with her product team. And consider setting up concierge services to assist users before building out new systems. Whole vision: status quo.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Between keynotes, panel rooms were packed with startup funding and scaling advice from the likes of Paige Craig (Arena), Matt Mazzeo (lowercase), Mark Mullen (Double M), Kristina Shen (Bessemer) and Kerry Bennett & Greg Bettinelli (Upfront). Packed house for startup marketing panel at #latechsummit pic.twitter.com/m69V5KEJhr.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Facebook’s head of media and entertainment, Kay Madati, knows a thing or two about television. After casting was announced, the winners and the celebrities kept fans up to date with daily insights of the behind the scenes action via their Facebook pages preceding show’s production debut. They all gather different metrics.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Tons of great conversations about new startups, hardware, and the entrepreneurs building them. To cap off our 6th year at SXSW and follow up on last year’s amazingly successful Trend Lounge , we knew this year had to be bigger, better, more engaging, and of course, even more fun. Hustle hard, ride in comfort.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

He gives up the goods and a few tips on what you could do to help market your company. I tried to start my own online t-shirt company not realizing the money and time commitment it would take to be successful. If we see something working we ramp up efforts. What’s been your biggest success?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

And of course you could add up impressions by counting your the followers of everybody who had retweeted plus your own. It is what is commonly referred to as “vanity metrics” as in, “Look at how many more followers I got us! Clicks are also a simple measure that you can get from basic link tracking packages.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Many pundits are already talking about a “ retail apocalypse ” that has already started. Measure your agility by putting metrics on change. Perhaps they need to add a coffee bar, or other entertainment options. They may be improving every period, but losing the race. Old views of change rates are no longer competitive.

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