Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

If you want to watch just parts of the video we went exactly in this order so you can more easily orient yourself to what you want to hear. Palm is a maker of mobile computing devices, including the Pixi and Pixi Plus; HP: “Our intent is to double down on WebOS”; helps HP compete in mobile computing with Apple, RIM, Google, and MSFT.

Clearstone 236

Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. MySpace didn’t handle images or video well. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 29, 2011

With SocialVents you’re able to filter by category, distance and date to deliver only the events that what you want you to see. The folks over at SocialVents have even included cool features to let you add photos and include YouTube videos in your event post. From an idea perspective, this startup ranks pretty high in my opinion.

Sites 89

Sites Screening Google Mobile 89

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

The idea is that if I can serve you an ad for a function that you already need to perform on the web anyways – a captcha – with a brand message I can drive recall. We believe this is why Google Ventures invested in Pixazza. And market research seems to confirm this. The eyes are in the image. It’s integrated.

Advertising 352

Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. After Tanz had sold his pre-Instagram photo-sharing app called MoJungle, he was intrigued with notion of bringing advertising to photos, and had no idea if it was even possible.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

People can buy anything, look up news, watch videos, and the list goes on and on. App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. Today, we support four categories: house cleaning, dry cleaning – pickup and delivery, wash and fold – pickup and delivery, and dog walking.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. MakeSpace set out to reinvent the whole category. It is a household name. Innovation.

Ideas 150

Ideas Startup Technical Review Pricing 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2017

As an angel investor, I sometimes worry that all the viable unique ideas must already be taken. We all want to get out there ahead of the crowd, and invest in that truly innovative idea that seems so obvious in its appeal that you wonder why nobody ever thought of it before. I haven’t found the next one yet, even on Shark Tank.

Ideas 87

Ideas Sites Social Network Startup 87

InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

As noted in Your Startup Ideas Should Not Be Charming , most successful entrepreneurs are haunted by their ideas and feel they must execute them before someone else beats them to the punch. Such mini-ventures, as described in Small Ideas, Big Benefits , will not only educate you, but will reduce your risk when you exit the Herd.

Startup 243

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Statistics 243

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Except that MySpace didn’t handle images or video well. The Past (1985-2002).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

I think this episode is worth watching ( video is here ) but as always I’ll try to summarize for anybody short on time. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. This is unintentional and inevitable. Short answer: no.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Fouad and I had this idea to allow people to interact with sound bites and audio clips. We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. Video games are also huge. What's the story behind Hark?

Redpoint 201

Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

An iPhone is an alarm clock, a camera, a pager, a game console, a compass, a map, an audio and video recorder, a phone, and a Dick Tracy two-way video link. No, what’s missing is an organizing idea—a new way of packaging and interacting with the information on our mobile devices. Or maybe that’s all wrong.

Software Review 40

Software Review Screening Design Mobile 40

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Topsy , for example, does respect the content producer — so morons using “Python-urllib/1.17″ or “AppEngine-Google; (+[link] appid: mapthislink)&# could obey the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), too. Also, showing images or embedding videos from the crawled page violates copyrights. Don’t be shy.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41