socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders, the CEO and co-founder, of the company is hoping to change that, by providing tools to consumers to help pay off their debt and achieve their life goals. The company already had momentum, and $350,000 in revenue, providing a special process to help banks communicated with defaulted borrowers. 500 company.

Startup 197

Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” focusing on the first few steps that determine long-term success. Duffy emphasizes the often overlooked personal side of entrepreneurship, including balancing finances, relationships, and your health. Let your passion drive your cash flow projections. Moderate your optimism.

Startup 109

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 109

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Jeremy Gocke: With Fliptu, we're aiming to fix the disjointed media and product discovery process for consumers and brands. What Fliptu does, is it enables brands to sync and import all of their social media accounts into a comprehensive, single display. Does this look like a Facebook page, or is this a separate site?

Social Media 268

Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” on the first steps that determine long-term success. Duffy emphasizes the often overlooked personal side of entrepreneurship, including balancing finances, relationships, and your health. Let your passion drive your cash flow projections. Moderate your optimism.

Startup 63

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 63

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” focusing on the first few steps that determine long-term success. Duffy emphasizes the often overlooked personal side of entrepreneurship, including balancing finances, relationships, and your health. Let your passion drive your cash flow projections. Moderate your optimism.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Framework 106

Tech.Co

AUGUST 1, 2017

Once a novelty act reserved for indie band albums and curious art projects, crowdfunding is starting to play a major role in the world of startups and new products. In fact, the majority of your work should be finished by the time you start your campaign. Rule #3: Do Your Homework. Rule #2: Launch Day is Priority #1.

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Startup Social Media Tips Ideas 93

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches?

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Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2022

Many of these businesses will take a while to gain some momentum, but there are already some fresh faces on the tech scene that are worth keeping your eyes on as the next year progresses. “We’ve been in your shoes. Investing in stock is a great idea for anyone, and you can never get started too early.

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Startup Invest FAQ Examples 200

socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2012

Do you have a wallet full of rewards credit cards, but don't have any idea how to best earn enough points to take advantage of those rewards? Matthew Goldman: We're helping people to simplify the decision they make when they pay for products. To merchants, what is in your wallet looks just like a regular credit card.

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Help Social Media Incubator Services 157

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

Everyone has an account and checks it multiple times a day, no matter how often people threaten to delete it and “de-wire”. While the web based version of Facebook has an abundance of display banners and advertisements littering every page, the mobile version has nothing of the sort. Facebook is the new crack. Yeah, right.

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Netflix Blogging Mobile Advertising 191

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. What's the idea behind Audiolife? The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

What's the idea behind Lottay? Harry Lin: The idea behind Lottay, is to make gift giving online as satisfying as it is in the real world. Our idea was, if you could send someone a gift as conveniently, and as fun as a virtual gift, but with real cash attached to it, that would be a fantastic experience.

Evite 157

Evite Startup Ideas Ticketmaster 157

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. How has your history with Jason Spievak , Colin Kelley and the rest of the former CallWave team shaped and benefited the company?

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

Using social media to increase your company’s touch and reach with each of your customers may be the most important reason to jump in to this game changing strategy. Social media can help bridge a long standing gap between customers and the companies they trust with their hard earned cash. Eric Greenspan.

Social Media 214

Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

I’ve spent almost 20 years starting businesses and helping hundreds of clients, colleges & friends start theirs. Ideation & Protecting Ideas. Determine whether your business name needs to be trademarked, and if does Trademark it at the USPTO. Protect your written works and code through the Copyright Office.

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Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

TZ: In our last interview you said that you were about 25% at capacity of your original vision for Miigle. A year and a half later and post-public launch, at what capacity do you think Miigle is today of your original vision? Once you have logged in to your Miigle account, the first step is editing your profile.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

There are 3 vital questions to ask when putting together a campaign; 1- Is the thing I’m raising money for a great product? 2- How am I talking about my product? He shared, ‘When creating a campaign it’s key to remember that people are fans of you – not the actual product, so you want to be sure to communicate your why.’.

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Startup Examples Social Media Media 109

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2011

Have you ever been working on something at work, and suddenly realized what you were doing was applicable to something completely unrelated in your personal life? I thought it was a cute idea, but didn't think too much of it at the time. I said--wow, that's a pretty big missed opportunity. They said it would be amazing.

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Pricing Design Startup Ideas 247

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

After you sign up for an account, super easy if you have a Facebook account, you are taken to a page with available lounges for you to view video. You can also create your own lounge. Everything from hip hop music videos to entertainment news and gossip, there is sure to be a lounge to suit your taste.

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Content Conference News Social Network 74

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

For most of us, though, the idea of investors or even securing financing may as well go the way of the corporate ladder. Having no money can help you plan. With a bank account full of someone else's money, it's hard not to feel flush with cash and have a false sense of security. Your mortgage and grocery bill depend on it.

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Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

But some larger companies, such as Canonical, came to the crowdfunding community to help them fund projects like the Ubuntu Edge. To help us with our financial needs, we looked towards crowdfunding, or more specifically, IndieGoGo. The contributors want a piece of the action and help with the building of the project itself.

Startup 74

Startup Funding Capital Help 74

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The trends are legit, but we have no idea what unexpected breakthrough in human interaction is going to change everything.” He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. He’s right about this.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. Many people go back with lots of new ideas, experience, and energy.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Let's talk about your product first, tell us about your hardware? We use a Camera SLR camera, which works with any of our three products out there. Our first product had challenges, but we moved very quickly to change that up, and ended up with our current product, the Bookdrive DYI.

Google 100

Google Startup West Los Angeles Content 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

It’s also a great way to build relationships with people interested in your topic area. Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. How to find your “voice&# ? Be authentic.

Blogging 286

Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. We talked with Billy last week about the firm, and what it's trying to do: What's the whole idea behind Kijubi? The firm is launching itself today at TechCrunch50.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

You need to research the possibilities in a new landscape but your personal research has been well, a bit fruitless. Perhaps it’s time to raise a round of Venture Capital funding and want a pitch presentation a bit more composed than the dusty Keynote you put together last year for your friends and family round.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Pitching stories and getting your name out to various companies and editors requires a lot of work. Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. Freelancing is a tough gig for many writers.

Journal 90

Journal Startup Writing Media 90

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. So what’s exciting about this new product? Here’s a guide on how to upload and create your own filter. This product is literally too good to pass up. STEP 1: CREATE YOUR FILTER.

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Customer Custom Snapchat Design 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. You can use it to quickly turn your location data into a complete mapping website and companion iPhone app.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If that’s not enough, ShoeDazzle runs charity shoe programs, making the company good for your closet and the country. Here’s a man with all the brains of a Silicon Valley engineer and all the big ideas and known-how of an LA entrepreneur. Elbaz’ AdSense accounted for 28 percent of Google’s total revenue, or more than $2 billion.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

It helped me to better understand how my brain works and I began working on coping mechanisms. “You don’t mentally process how much you’re under stress because of your personality but your body still perceives the stress. So while you’re mind feels calm, your body is becoming a mess.

Tips 150

Tips Startup Help Mobile 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? 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. short answer: very, very rarely.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285