Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 3, 2012

Tracky is an all new startup based out of Las Vegas focusing on social collaboration. The platform organizes users’ personal and business lives in an environment designed for thought partnering. The technology lets users manage and enrich their varying daily tasks by integrating elements from social media and project management.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services.

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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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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. It''s more about connecting then with customer, than BloomNation sending orders through the platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Professional investors now look for startups through popular online platforms, including Gust and InvestorHunt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Incubator: Amplify LA. Fun Fact: Their latest investment was into LA-based Daqri – the augmented reality platform that has been used for campaigns with Cadillac and MAXIM Magazine. Social Media: Snapchat.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs. 15mm in Series A.

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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons. There's been a huge push to engage local businesses, to get them involve din social media, but video has yet to catch up. That's our next goal, to strike a number of partnership with a platform publisher, and power the local video solution for them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

So clients can now buy media from us by cost-per-action basis with addition to CPM. To progress and be LA tech-focused, we started incubating ideas. First impression, a self-serve platform, and Blink, our ad serving technology, we both built in-house. Are incubating companies one of the main focuses of Engage:BDR?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Keep your eyes and mind open to free sources of innovation in every ecosystem, including open-source software, university cooperative programs, and the many incubators and accelerators supported by volunteers and communities. Invest in communication skills and use all platforms. Capitalize on free communal initiatives around you.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

(personalized video recommendations engine based on content recognition); HYP3R (location-based social engagement tools); Littlstar (virtual reality distribution and discovery); Pundit (talk-and-voice based interaction for social media); and StatMuse (AI-based platform for sports fans to find sports stats).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There are many organizations which cater to entrepreneurs, including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and local startup incubators. Search online startup platforms and crowdfunding sites. There are many networking groups on FaceBook, LinkedIn, and others social media sites, which can help you increase your odds of finding a match early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

There are many organizations which cater to entrepreneurs, including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and local startup incubators. Search online startup platforms and crowdfunding sites. There are many networking groups on FaceBook, LinkedIn, and others social media sites, which can help you increase your odds of finding a match early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Professional investors now look for startups through popular online platforms, including Gust and AngelList.

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Steve Reich

OCTOBER 9, 2012

There are days when I feel like we’ve gotten a bit carried away with social media. Golfers are sharing the information because it lets them expand the social aspect of golf beyond the course. SBS is building the premier platform to reach the 26 million Americans who play golf.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

And of course, to extend a supportive and educated hand to inquisitive friends and acquaintances – through social media, fact checking, and a call to disconnect from toxic news stories. Adam Draper – Of Boost VC, an SF Incubator/Accelerator. Trading platforms. Payment apps that integrate with wearbles.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2013

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. We received some incubation from 42 Engine, but beyond this will start looking for VC in 2013. ” Gareth McGuire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Los Angeles-based Next 10 Ventures , a $50 million fund focused on the creator economy, is launching an incubator program to support YouTubers. “At YouTube, I saw over 5x growth in watch time, commercialization and really, globalization of the platform,” Grubbs told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes. ” Once again, TikTok apologized.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. You take all the photos and videos and upload it on YouTube, Facebook, Vine, and other social media platforms and experience the event through the eyes of the crowd.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? No platform is naïve enough to allow an outsider to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without an appropriate tax or benefit to them.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

He created the Alpha Trainer, fitness app with an extensive customizable training program and was released on both the iOS and Android platforms earlier this May. New companies are being raised and incubated to help build LA’s tech scene. Since you are using social media, how does this help “motivate” your friends?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

12,000 apps currently on the platform. Simon also shares his thoughts on building a strong fan base through social media and public relations. ” Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator – a platform for building network-connected mobile apps across native platforms. What’s the next mobile platform going to be?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

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. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app.

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