socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

Are you the sort of person who relies on your friends to help you figure out the best places to explore on the web? That's the idea behind HypeMarks (www.hypemarks.com), a new startup looking to tap into your social graph to guide you to the web. Where did the idea come from? Where are you in terms of product?

USC 252

USC Startup Web Ideas 252

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2014

Those are hard, since someone has to invent something innovative, but I do have some views on other ideas whose time has come and gone. I still get about one business “idea” per week for a new networking site, which will combine the “best of all the sites” into a new one. For other ideas, the wave has simply passed.

Ideas 110

Ideas Entrepreneur Sites Yahoo 110

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? They didn't buy it because of the financial content, they did it for the web video expertise.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2013

You''ve seen the company''s work in the Superbowl, on television, and on the web, all for big brands--but you might not know it came out of the crowdsourcing efforts of Tongal (www.tongal.com). Say, if you''re making a TV commercial or web video, each project unfolds over phases, so anyone, regardless of their skill, can participate.

Ideas 243

Ideas Content Startup Web 243

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I wrote this on my flight home from f.ounders & web summit in Dublin, Ireland late last year. My trip was scheduled around the annual Web Summit and the f.ounders conference, both of which have become the hottest must-attend event in Europe and rivaling any great conference in the US. The Origins of Web Summit / f.ounders.

Conference 392

Conference Startup Web Truecar 392

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. The obvious starting point is the cross-pollination of ideas and talent. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. 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. His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Retention Science said the score looks at customer churn, customer engagement, customer sentiment, and repeat purchase rate to let businesses get an idea of how they are doing with customer retention, similar to what Klout has done on the consumer side with measuring the influence of users online.

Commerce 242

Commerce Los Angeles Customer Custom 242

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2010

Mehdi Daoudi is CEO of CatchPoint Systems (www.catchpoint.com), a new Los Angeles startup focused on the web site and web application monitoring industry. Mehdi Daoudi: The idea is very simple. We're trying to make monitoring of web sites and applications sexy and simple. Web monitoring is an extremely expensive business.

Tool 232

Tool Web Startup Sites 232

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We set up a digital media fund, which had the goal of investing in new digital media properties, ideas, and concepts. Right now, we're working on integrating more data from around the web, and our goal is to really aggregate and curate the information out there. That's where our initial database of products is coming from. READ MORE>>.

Incubator 239

Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible on the web. Innovation is valued by our society, by investors and certainly by consumers.

Artificial Inteligence 256

Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 256

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 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. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

Social Network 319

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 319

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

The two things that are mostly lacking from people's investment experience are the lack of a wide network of people to refine investment ideas with, and the best available content about companies they are considering investing in. In that network, we bring in content from all over the web.

Social Network 239

Social Network Startup Networking Content 239

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

To learn more about how the company went from just an idea at an accelerator to a healthy exit, we spoke with founder Eli Portnoy. One, is they provide a very condensed period to refine your idea, where you get lots of feedback, and get lots of access to peopel in the industry. Congrats on the acquisition!

Startup 225

Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not. In the early days you don’t really want 3 extra teams hearing your ideas and gearing up to compete before you feel you’ve got a solid head start. Be careful about this advice.

Marketing 380

Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

. “In order to create a successful new company, you have to find an idea that. (1) How many ideas like that are left? ” He gives a nice little 6-minute video interview on Bloomberg reinforcing these ideas. We once thought nobody could unseat Google since all inbound traffic to the web came from them.

Technical Review 299

Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

The Deal – I instantly loved the idea for the application, the market and Dustin’s vision. Jon also loved the idea, the market & Dustin. I am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 “And importantly Web 2.0 “And importantly Web 2.0 companies versus the Web 1.0 I still do.

Invest 303

Invest Company Companies Web 2.0 303

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri: We are a digital media startup, building a next generation studio that it is focusing on creating entertainment and web media, that scales to tens of hundreds of thousands of people, and potentially millions around the world. We see the web having untapped potential for creating its own medium for artistic expression.

Cloud Computing 208

Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2014

I really enjoyed working with somebody who could take ideas in my head and translate them to a visual format that others could appreciate. He also had the clever idea of making my home screen banner on the blog be a visually stunning image from Los Angeles, my home. We had collaborated before.

Blogging 294

Blogging Design Venture Capital Screening 294

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. For other ideas, the wave has simply passed.

Ideas 87

Ideas Sites Social Network Startup 87

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Attempt To License An Idea. Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic, I can sit back and collect licensing fees while someone else does all the work required to turn my idea into a successful business. Fallacy: Ideas are worthless, while skillful execution is priceless.

Entrepreneur 272

Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Gdgt (l ed by Spark, True Ventures ) – Love the idea. Also in the video: - Is it a good idea for VC’s to pay stratospheric prices? - Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. Plus, maybe they’ve got some mega Facebook deal in the works? sites still dominate.

Venture Capital 232

Venture Capital Capital SEO Yahoo 232

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2011

Huntington Beach-based AnyMeeting , the free, online web conferencing and webinar service run by Costin Tuculescu, has launched a new feature which allows anyone to sell tickets to their webinars. The company said the new feature is idea for trainers, educators, speakers and professional webinar hosts.

Tech Coast Angels 171

Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels Pasadena Education 171

TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

But we have an idea for dealing with Gozer. We also want the ever-increasing diversity of options for web development to be represented. But most importantly, I think, we created the project with a hopeful mindset of “perhaps we can convince some people to invest in performance for the better of all web-app developers.”.

Framework 378

Framework TechEmpower Platform Metrics 378

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Despite the huge surge of content specifically being developed for the web--and for sites like YouTube--making that content profitable and sustainable continues to be an issue for content creators. Josef Holm: Tubestart is a crowdfunding platform for YouTube creators, web series creators, and for digital video in general.

Content 231

Content Platform Sites Web 231

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? Lots of thoughts here.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. He was seeking $500k.

CTO Coach 360

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 360

socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2014

The company--which also opened up a developer site --said the public interfaces it is providing are based on the actual APIs the company has been using itself in developing its service, and that it hopes to tap into the many ideas that third party developers might have to incorporate its data and music into their own applications.

Develop 164

Develop Development Santa Monica Software Development 164

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

I don’t like the idea of pushing my comments into Twitter. But I don’t want it becoming the web. I want it to be a part of the web. The idea is that people may have reasons for being anonymous (e.g. I’m not looking for comment links out of context into my or anybody else’s Facebook stream.

Blogging 287

Blogging Social Network Google Startup 287

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web. 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.

Advertising 352

Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

At the time, everyone seemed to be enamored with the idea that your company had to be ‘all things to all people’. Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages.

Google 303

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 303

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Entrepreneurs are supposed to have insights that others don’t have and we’re supposed to be good judges about which entrepreneurs and executives have both the most clever ideas and the right skill sets to do transformational things against all odds. I don’t think this is the job. So I tell people we’re fundamentally in the people business.

Venture Capital 363

Venture Capital Capital CTO Coach Startup 363

socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2013

The idea is that products have moved to the web in a big way. We had a general thesis that, at some point in the future, services will also move to the web, in the same way that products had moved to the web. Last year, we started testing the idea of online music lessons and how that would work.

Startup 260

Startup Education Study Ideas 260

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

service lets developers stress their web apps and APIs with thousands of concurrent connections, and makes it easy for developers to routinely load test during their daily coding and deployment routines. The firm said its new Loader.io READ MORE>>.

Services 153

Services Incubator Email Web 153

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)?

Dollar Shave Club 272

Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272