Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. It’s not too late to start. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? Earbits is a marketing platform for music related products built around interactive radio experiences. StyleSpot recently merged with Kaboodle, the online social shopping site owned by Hearst Corp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Bedloo is a social media voting platform for those who want to find the right answer in life. TechZulu catches up with one of the co-founders of Bedloo, Vincent Plummer, and talks to us about social media, startups, and Bedloo. That is how Todd and I met, from all the talk of using platforms that frustrates us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. It's like building a site like Blogger, but with your brand. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

It was a finalist in Marshall ’s New Venture Seed Competition and it has earned a place within IncubatriX, a startup Incubator through USC’s Grief School of Entrepreneurship, which currently houses over a dozen USC startups. With the ability to import images from social media, HipTraveler creates a shareable, searchable itinerary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Check Craigslist first, since most new ventures don’t have the money for executive search firms and the major job listing sites. There are many organizations which cater to entrepreneurs, including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and local startup incubators. Search online startup platforms and crowdfunding sites.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The florist business center we launched recently empowers florists, with tools to run email marketing campaigns, reach out through social media, and even gives them a point of sale system and website builder. Florists receive their orders through these other sites, but the problem is, there''s no profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

Check Craigslist first, since most new ventures don’t have the money for executive search firms and the major job listing sites. There are many organizations which cater to entrepreneurs, including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and local startup incubators. Search online startup platforms and crowdfunding sites.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. How did you do that?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons. In between practicing, I actually started and ran my own social network, TripUp, which was later acquired by Sidestep, which is now Kayak. Where do those videos get distribute? Finally, what's the next big goal for the company?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2013

If they don’t find a suitable candidate then there is no cost for listing on the site. As an employer in the Social Media age I find it ground breaking.” Hiring Bounty represents a platform for them to access the best quality candidates, faster and at the lowest cost. How many hires and bounties so far?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Zeroblock , the highly successful mobile and web app was recently acquired by the world’s most popular Bitcoin site and online wallet, Blockchain.info. Adam Draper – Of Boost VC, an SF Incubator/Accelerator. Trading platforms. Platforms for contributing Bitcoin to political and charitable causes.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

12,000 apps currently on the platform. John Busher, Harry Balls – a humorous site offering reviews and information about mobile apps, primarily indie games. Simon also shares his thoughts on building a strong fan base through social media and public relations. What’s the next mobile platform going to be?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

We first rolled out furniture in a newer market – Washington DC, and we increased ARPU (average revenue per month, per customer) by > 300%, we lowered our CAC (this is because the number of people who came to our site and converted went up) and thus we decreased our payback period. That is how great businesses are built.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Bootstrapping Marketing Strategy, social media marketing, web applications. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization cosmetics, social media, women in tech. . jim spencer, media convergence group.

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