Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

This was the first in her string of web properties. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers.

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product.

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

The company went from a venture backed high tech startup to an IPO as a publicly traded firm, and over its time has battled the perception of being a "content farm", suffered through Google and its Panda update, and now has emerged as a major content partner for Google, via YouTube. Can you explain that process?

Demand 240

Demand Media eHow Content 240

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, He then joined their venture fund, TheMailRoom Fund, which is where I met him.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. FourSquare.

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

William Chow: What Mobophiles has developed is software that solves the two biggest problems the web space right now, which is slow page load--waiting on the web--and no offline access, which is if you don't have connectivity on the web. We didn't talk to Google Maps team to get Maps running--it works straight out of the box.

SaaS 127

SaaS Web Google Sites 127

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I have talked extensively about “social proof&# in fund raising in the past. Lead investors and follow investors can both win equally but in each case you know why you personally are writing the check. Remember that you’ll be investing against people who have worked on the Google algorithm and REALLY know what drives SEO.

Invest 288

Invest Angel Web 2.0 SEO 288

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

What ShopZilla needed to do, was write a search engine which could crawl and build a structure around the web. Just like Google, we crawl 250 programs and create a structure around their terms and conditions, and turn that into a single experience. How is the company funded? That's what we've built at PointHub.

Startup 166

Startup Pricing Ideas Writing 166

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Others I have not.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. Finally, what are you using your recent funding round for?

USC 207

USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. But consider the following: 1.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

“Just about anything you’ve heard [about] at Google that sounds interesting and new is based on machine learning,” Jurvetson said at the time. Just over a year later, Jurvetson led the Series A round of venture funding for Nervana Systems. In the 2-1/2 years since it was founded, Nervana raised roughly $25 million.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence San Diego Framework Venture Capital 40

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed.

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. It has been reported by Google that 77% of viewers use a companion device while watching TV. Currently, Coincident.TV

Screening 109

Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

He said, “They need an unbiased view of the fund raising environment because there is too much misinformation and everything seems to be changing fast.&#. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. We've used the profits from NeoHire for funding. Plus, we will provide resume writing services. What's the idea behind the site?

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. Challenge #4 – We are Divided by Our Geography.

Company 111

Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass. Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Ryan Magnussen – Grail , making content curation on the web even easier. Mike Norman – WeFunder , bringing crowd investing to the world.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. In my next post I will take on the topic of how to control your brand. Not kidding.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Adam Bell (@datatv) - Web Design and Branding with an attitude! Barry Schuler (@BSchuler) - former CEO of AOL, Ex Producer of LOOK, Managing Director DFJ Growth Fund. Bruce Sallan (@BruceSallan) - I'm a former showbiz guy who writes a dad's column. Cynthia Lou (@CynthiaAnnLou) - Designer, Writer, Web & Brand Strategist.

Social Media 40

Social Media Journal Media Education 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Precise analytics allow companies to “ measure online distribution of coupons by tracking the printing of web pages and page views;” a significant advantage with digital. With roughly 91% of the population using mobile devices and 26.3%

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. And Google badly messes up your URIs for click tracking purposes. You need to take care of errors yourself. requestScript; if (!empty($qs))

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2019

We had met previously when Trevor was a product manager at YouTube and Upfront had funded the largest video producer on YouTube, Maker Studios. You know when you want to grab an image off of the web and you can’t quite size it so that it fits in Keynote or Powerpoint? What are some examples? Yeah, this sucks.

Startup 191

Startup Social Media Slides Design 191

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. It was a pleasure to write them myself. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company. But obviously Google won the war. That gave Google a huge cost advantage. Shopping.com.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317