socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The service--which had been showing its age--looks to have overhauled its user interface to make it much easier and cleaner to send an invitation; has added new card designs; added social features via an "Event Conversation" product; and more. Those competitors have been hoping to take market share from Evite. READ MORE>>.

Evite 140

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

By definition, most startups begin as a result of some innovation in product, process, or service. That’s a tall order, especially when your business culture has to fit into the myriad of international and local cultures that are part of every market these days. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

Startup 89

Startup Web 2.0 IBM IBM 89

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Newport Beach-based CircleUp, which provides Web 2.0-style style group messaging services, said today that it has launched a new platform to help groups communicate with their members. The new platform--billed SmartMessage--helps groups send messages among members and others.

Activity 113

Activity Tool Networking Web 2.0 113

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve? One, is the businesses we service are mission critical.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

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 mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. cheap accessible digital hardware].

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Thin Line--formed in partnership with LA's Wavemaker Partners--is hoping to take advantage of the growth in the clean technology market to find startups able to tapping into those now established markets, without the huge investment requirements of those first wave of clean technology companies. Markets were not yet built out.

Invest 113

Invest Capital Venture Capital Idealab 113

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 mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. Social Networking in Web 2.0. cheap accessible digital hardware]. The Past (1985-2002).

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I like to invest where I have a personally strong connection with the entrepreneur and/or a strong intuition on the market from prior experience. They have very a very good sense for what is going on a market but not a well-honed knowledge of an industry and what will define success or failure. Connections. Domain knowledge.

Invest 288

Invest Angel Web 2.0 SEO 288

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

6 or 7 years ago when TechCrunch was at its peak market share (they are still strong but many more tech blogs have also popped up) there was a term for getting covered there called “the TechCrunch bounce.” ” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0)

Blogging 309

Blogging Journal Press Startup 309

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Make sure you know what the size of customer you want to serve is, what the people in a company of that size do, the problems they have, the features that will resonate and the channels you’ll need to sell into and service that customer. The problem is that to win each of these deals I had to promise high service levels.

Startup 389

Startup Customer Custom Resource 389

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - . - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

By definition, most startups begin as a result of some innovation in product, process, or service. That’s a tall order, especially when your business culture has to fit into the myriad of international and local cultures that are part of every market these days. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

Startup 53

Startup Web 2.0 IBM IBM 53

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. lean startups or even the advent of AJAX.

Design 325

Design Startup Web 2.0 Tips 325

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

By definition, most startups begin as a result of some innovation in product, process, or service. That’s a tall order, especially when your business culture has to fit into the myriad of international and local cultures that are part of every market these days. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

Company 75

Company Companies Startup Web 2.0 75

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 The firm has taken the ease-of-use, interconnectivity, and other features we take granted from modern Web 2.0 How big is the firm now?

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Startup SaaS Report 100

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into their sites. Your service: the game.

Startup 191

Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

I’ve been doing some research to assess how much of it is reality, since I have to admit that I seem to have missed the clues to the transition to Web 2.0, After some work, I’m still convinced that much of the Web 3.0 buzz is hype, but things are changing on the Internet, and bits and pieces of Web 3.0 are appearing.

Web 88

Web Web 2.0 Doc Examples 88

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Explain how your service works? Wilson Sonsini, in fact, represents us.

Startup 124

Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

Secure Services Corporation has a software implementation that uses biometrics. There are numerous single sign-on products on the market, such as PassLogix, AccessMaster, Entrust/SignOn, MetaPass SSO, OneSign, and SecureLogin. My laptop has a built-in fingerprint sensor that can be easily set up for a specific password when “swiped.”

Startup 79

Startup Web 2.0 IBM IBM 79

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 That target market is huge, and includes sites like YouTube, you also have Revision3, and other sites doing short videos. We're picking up 30 to 40 writers a day, with a budget of zero marketing dollars. That is the way to attract writers.

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

McDonald’s IPOed 46 years ago with a market cap today of over $100 billion, why? Google’s current market cap sits at just over $200 billion (Yahoo! When I was running my digital marketing firm I was constantly in corporate meetings. Many authors do lectures and other services. For we live in speed. Time is money.

Startup 76

Startup Social Media Content Web 2.0 76

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. is Sean Rad.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. AJAX was one of the major drivers of the “dot com renaissance” that became known as Web 2.0. He’s right about this. But only temporarily in my view. I will cover this in my post. I’m not so sure.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

The bare bones of FreedomSpeaks is online advocacy as a service. We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0 We spoke to him, and he had the sense that the market was right for us.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Ruan and Patterson tell us a bit about the service and how it was inspired by Twitter, the company's experience spinning out technology from UC Irvine, and what its plans are now. Back to the service--how do people use Quub? Don Patterson: The first reason to offer the service is to broadcast your status to many sites.

Startup 100

Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Then, we spoke to the firm's founder, Alex Aydin, and discovered that he wasn't just your usual Web 2.0 A friend of mine was in the residential construction business, and at the time the market environment was pretty good for starting a home construction company. It was at the heydey of both the housing and mortgage market.

Startup 100

Startup Sites Marketing Web 2.0 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. event I did last fall.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Helpful Resources for Getting Traffic from Partnerships : : Web 2.0 Turn your users into your marketers, it’s the more legit cousin of multi level marketing. Helpful Resources about for Getting Referral Traffic : Top Blogs List (with email contacts). Distribution Deals. Conclusion.

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

We spoke with Ross about the investment, as well as about his experience as VC and his outlook on the market. I feel like even though we're in a challenging market, there are some really great opportunities here. I was working at HBO in New York, and asked to scout out online services. Thanks for the interview.

Advertising 100

Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

Frank Addante

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Just Say What it Is By Frank Addante In todays high-tech, highly competitive world, more and more companies are describing their products or services using too many fancy, jargon words. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

Startup 40

Startup Competition Venture Capital Advertising 40

Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

When Jon Carder talks about online consumer trends, he speaks with some experience.

Commerce 59

Commerce Sales Startup Web 2.0 59

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

A digital analyst, sociologist, and futurist, Solis has influenced the effects of emerging media on the convergence of marketing, communications, and publishing. BrianSolis.com is ranked among the top of world's leading business and marketing online resources. . Stop wasting the great contacts you make every day. .

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Follow up with compliments on their writing and get some emails going back and forth, and then pitch your product or service. Helpful Resources for Getting Traffic from Partnerships : : Web 2.0 Turn your users into your marketers, it’s the more legit cousin of multi level marketing. Distribution Deals. Conclusion.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I spent a lot of time and energy trying to convince people (advertisers, prospective employees, investors, potential acquirers) that there was a market for search engines. What is the Rubicon Project?

Startup 40

Startup Email Ideas Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Of all of my companies, communication was probably the strongest at L90, even though the engineering and design team were completely separated from sales, marketing, business development and customer service.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup .Net Venture Capital 40