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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The roll of selfies and the idea of meeting new people had me thinking I was on Tinder, but upon closer inspection I was on the ON homepage. ON is like a smorgasbord of the best features from other social media platforms and combines it into one experience that could change the way we meet new people.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

What's the best way to get the word out about your brand on social media? We spoke with Matt and Amanda MacNaughton , the brother and sister team behind PromoJam, to hear more about the company's platform. Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. What is PromoJam?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. So did the media. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

The reason for this business, is folks are always going on social media to recommend products to their friends, but they're not making any money from it. We want to help you monetize your knowledge, your skills, and your social media. The second part of our app is Know It, which is a video on demand platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Consumers all have access to social networks, but the business-side has never really caught on. Labinot Bytyqi: The whole idea came up when I was working in the corporate world.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

With the proliferation of social networks, communications clients and VoIP phone services, users often find they need to use multiple ways--Twitter, Facebook, phone, FAX, and more--to communicate with their contacts. The idea was to create a universal communicator, and help to solve the problem of communications overload.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. Most of these guys have no idea who they are marketing to. Where's the service now?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Fact: social media is among the top most powerful communication tools today. Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

On your birthday, something special happens on social media: you receive hundreds of likes and well wishes from friends, family, high school classmates and people you haven’t talked to for years on Facebook. It reinforces the company’s culture of being a platform for giving and celebration,” said Hagger. How great is that?!

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. First of all, what's the idea behind StockTwits, for people who haven't used the service? So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 29, 2013

The flik app is a new social video platform developed for the iOS, utilizes short videos for sharing and discovering. Chris and Tracy talk with TechZulu about the flik app, social media, and startup advice. Tracy Hayes: A few years ago we had an idea to launch a website where people can share the things they loved.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2015

David Dundas: Decisive analyzes images and videos on social networks, to help brands understand what makes their fans want to share and not share. David Dundas: When you are scrolling through a social media feed, there are certain things that make you stop when you're viewing that feed. What is Decisive? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MySocialNightLife.com (www.mysocialnightlife.com) announced a seed funding round, and its technology platform for the nightclub and bar industry. In addition, we though we'd connect this to social media, as a forward-facing view for customers. The idea was born in Vegas.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Our headquarters are in Berlin, but we have platform users from all corners of the world. The idea for exploreB2B resulted from my own experience in business development for a young consulting company and my brother’s enthusiasm for tech and social media.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2015

Based in Calabasas, CA and fresh from its SXSW debut and launch party, the new open messaging app onLoop hopes to reshape how we use social media to communicate. Founders AK Sands and Jacob Heinz (yes, of the ketchup) got the idea for the app while watching the Super Bowl and messaging various friends in different locations.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. That's when phone calls were a dime, so you get an idea how long ago that was. I'd be curious what you are doing with social media for a logistics company. Absolutely.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. What's the idea behind Sometrics? Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. we’re engaged in reading and discussing the ideas of those that we respect, like or are interested in. We’re the underlying platform that enables the calls to be tracked like clicks while weeding out fraud. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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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 ). encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. And so it goes with social networking.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. What's the idea behind Sometrics? Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company.

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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.” In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking. The costs of multi-platform development are too expensive.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. We may keep the platform with the name ZunguZ and look for a client facing name for the application. What inspired you to come up with the idea? What is Zunguz? Why the name?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. The ROI was solid.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Huddlewoo a live video platform set to launch early 2013 to give people the ability to access extraordinary people for one-on-one conversations and mentoring. We are a platform that facilitates the most important conversations of people’s lives! The calendar, payment and live-video are all facilitated through our platform.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. 5) As an investor, I frankly find it tiresome the degree to which entrepreneurs attempt to hype their companies by integrating “social networks and social media” into their pitches.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2015

Eighty percent of these business owners serve as their own webmasters with Facebook as their primary advertising platform. Social media is a favorite among small business owners. However, social networking sites also have rules. Figure out ways on how you can utilize social media better. Need a ruler?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. Moderator: Giang Biscan , PhD.,

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. How startup can leverage social media to get investors attention. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons. What's your background, and where did the idea for the business come from? In between practicing, I actually started and ran my own social network, TripUp, which was later acquired by Sidestep, which is now Kayak. Thanks, and good luck!

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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 the same with competing activity streams in various social networks.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Chill.com , from the makers of Namesake , is a video community sharing platform. I was inspired by the combination of content, social networking and gaming. We decided to build a product around this simple idea of making live streams into social experiences. You can also create your own lounge. and YouTube Live.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

What's the idea behind Audiolife? We allow them to have virtual store fronts, portable stores, which they can place on their social networking profiles, on their own dot com, on their blogs, and so forth--anywhere fans already interact with the artist. That includes digital downloads, ring tones, CDs, and other merchandise.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. It filed for an IPO on August 6th. LowerMyBills, Inc.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. We are about to head on a four-month, 48-state road trip to help people across America bring their ideas to life and shine the light on some of the amazing entrepreneurs and communities. We believe there are awesome entrepreneurs everywhere, not just in the places constantly covered by the media. Subscribe to RSS.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Step by Step From Idea to Bootstrap Startup. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Starting a dev team to build a brand new idea is harder. So you have an idea.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Streaming media. Social media. Social networking. Social games. Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. Publisher Platform (P3). Streaming video. Smartphones. Windows Phone.

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