Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. These are appearing earlier and earlier in emerging companies, as well as in mid-sized and mature companies: Your original market becomes saturated. Competitors see the same opportunity.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Talk about the market, when you say you're outside Google and Bing, explain what that means? We got into the pay-per-click space early on, when Idealab launched Goto.com, which eventually became Overture and was acquired by Yahoo. Marketing dollars start to go away in any difficult economy. E-commerce has become a huge factor.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 24, 2020

Amanda Milligan is the marketing director at Fractl , a prominent growth marketing agency that’s helped Fortune 500 companies and boutique businesses alike earn quality media coverage, backlinks, awareness and authority. Amanda Milligan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

They’ll discuss how content creators and brands work together to create, develop, and market digital branded entertainment. and live shows (CMA Awards Red Carpet, Oscars Backstage Pass – All Access Show Oscar.com) for Disney/ABC Television Digital Media Group. Neal Weiss, Yahoo! Originals is Yahoo!’s

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Social media allows women to seek out other, like minded women, and learn from them. Before that, I was heading up global consumer marketing for entertainment, sports, and video at Yahoo. Or, maybe they'd learn from a magazine. Michelle believes that women should learn from other women.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

The invitation-only attendees included founders, business development leaders, and marketing directors from companies big and small, including NBCUniversal, Mobclix, DDB Los Angeles, Airpush, adly, Mobile Roadie, Disney Animation Studios, BetterWorks, and more. Having previously worked at notable companies including Myspace, PayPal, Yahoo!,

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. These are appearing earlier and earlier in emerging companies, as well as in mid-sized and mature companies: Your original market becomes saturated. Competitors see the same opportunity.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!,

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 6, 2010

Create a separate email address for your online/social media inquiries. Check out Gmail , Yahoo or Live , for example. Tags: Marketing launch online presence website. MyPrivacy is a great tool that helps you locate where you are listed especially in some of the Internet white pages. www.BreakThroughNetworking.org.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

So here's the Hot List for 1/1/2009 - 1/15/2009 Top 5 Posts The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web Why You Need To Lead A Tribe - Seth Godin LA Gets Dugg, Hammered, Screwed How To Get The World Excited About Your Business –The James Siminoff Interview Viral analytics and metrics - go viral young startup Top 20 Keywords SEO Metrics Marketing Social Media (..)

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. These are appearing earlier and earlier in emerging companies, as well as in mid-sized and mature companies: Your original market becomes saturated. Competitors see the same opportunity.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Twitter is actually turning into crap by this bot game.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

Their featured speakers, who range in marketing and business expertise, will lead four intimate breakout discussions. Tony has previously worked for organizations like PayPal, Yahoo! and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. These are appearing earlier and earlier in emerging companies, as well as in mid-sized and mature companies: Your original market becomes saturated. Competitors see the same opportunity.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. Ultimately, we're build tools for marketers on top of that. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. Later on, we can add upsells for community managers and social media marketers.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies? What are the risks and rewards?

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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. Worded a bit more starkly by Benjamin Franklin: “Time is money.” For we live in speed.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

While there, I was approached by a guy with an idea around sports statistics, and we spent about two months to figure out what was interesting about the sports market. We came up with several things that were characteristics of the sports market, number one being that it was a place that venture capitalists were just not excited about.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

While there, I was approached by a guy with an idea around sports statistics, and we spent about two months to figure out what was interesting about the sports market. We came up with several things that were characteristics of the sports market, number one being that it was a place that venture capitalists were just not excited about.

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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. Howard Lindzon: StockTwits is a verticalized community for people to share stock ideas and market ideas, 24/7. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

For example, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo have all either acquired small startups in the space or are forming big partnerships with other players like Yelp and FourSquare. Local search (powered by reviews/recommendations) is extremely important to any company with an interest in mobile, social, local or commerce experiences.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Markets now, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Las Vegas. Ali Khoshgozaran: Tilofy comes from location and unify.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!, Established In 2010 By PayPal’s First Head of US marketing. and Schlumberger. Founded in 2010 by Eric M.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Social Media. Social Media – Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Twitter.This is a separate segment of referring traffic that warrants its own category. To make sure you maximize the potential for traffic from social media: 1.) Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press. Refreshing Content.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

What is the future of social media, digital television or mobile computing. In the technology space we have backed Overture (acquired by Yahoo!), Contributing overall with marketing and community outreach activities. .&# This isn’t likely to appeal to us. Where do you think things are heading?

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

Like Ice Cube and Dr. Dre use rap lyrics, Seth and I use social media instead. We met on Twitter, Seth David and I, during an event I hosted at Yahoo in Burbank. I had no issue with this and actually helped him by marketing his offerings. This silent feud between Seth David and I had been pretty one sided, until now.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Leave it to me to spend 14 hours in Dallas on the very day that three of my favorite industries crush capital… * Social marketing, with $14M through Bessemer Venture Partners and Harrison Metal Capital to Main Street Hub. It’s as subtle, yet important, as the distinction between “social marketing” and “social media.”

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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.). Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. 30% is the market opportunity.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. I finally broke down and bought a Twitter marketing application that automatically adds followers for you.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. I finally broke down and bought a Twitter marketing application that automatically adds followers for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. the funding and market coverage. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It’s a market, after all. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! And I’ll know in 18 months whether we have product / market fit. I use social media. The industry isn’t dying. It is changing. And reinventing itself.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Social Media. Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. Social Media - Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Twitter. make sure you maximize the potential for traffic from social media: 1.) Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press. Refreshing Content.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Once the content is recognized, relevant interactive experiences can be given to the user from targeted ads, to real time exchanges, transmedia content, social media feeds and retail opportunities. Companies like Flingo, Shazam Yahoo, Coincident.TV, Google and Nielsen are all developing their own coding protocals for ACR.

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