Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

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. This is where the culture of the startup has to adapt to the cultures of the markets served. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

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. This is where the culture of the startup has to adapt to the cultures of the markets served. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 24, 2011

Saturday, August 27, 2011 -- Web 3.0: dramatic shift in business and technology is taking place as the Social Web (Web 2.0) evolves into the Semantic Web (Web 3.0). Join us for the timely 6 hour seminar on the concepts, current systems and forecasting the impact of Web 3.0 See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2010

Rosenblatt had suggested earlier this year at the Web 2.0 Rosenblatt explained that the firm's decision to go for an IPO depends on the firm's board of directors and the market, but said that having raised $355M in funding, the firm is thinking about some kind of exit at some time.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. It was an enterprise 2.0 panel at the dawn of what people began calling web 2.0..

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have this opinion piece by Scott Fox , author of Internet Riches, the best-selling guide to starting a business online, and also e-Riches 2.0: Next Generation Online Marketing Strategies, a new guide to Web 2.0 online marketing strategies. Continued. ). READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The firm has seen a number of startups appear as competitors in recent years, who are applying Web 2.0 Those competitors have been hoping to take market share from Evite. Evite was originally launched in Silicon Valley in 1998, and was acquired by IAC in 2001 and moved to Los Angeles. designs to the online invitations space.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2017

The company, which operates a network of online markets for outsourcing biomedical research services and supplies, has raised $24 million in a new round of venture funding. Founding CEO Kevin Lustig said Scientist.com will use the additional cash to expand its operations.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2017

The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web 2.0 Shaan Sethi: I think the medical market is quite different from traditional apparel. solutions, providing healthcare professionals with a more enjoyable and fluid shopping experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

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. This is where the culture of the startup has to adapt to the cultures of the markets served. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Newport Beach-based CircleUp, which provides Web 2.0-style As part of the announcement, CircleUp said it has linked with San Diego-based Active Network's eteamz division, which will deploy the new tool throughout its web sites. The new platform--billed SmartMessage--helps groups send messages among members and others.

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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.

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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)

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The other thing that I think he's really done well is his look at value of different marketing channels. I'm not quite sure I believe the way he exactly models the value from each of these points as is shown in the following graphic, but a similar kind of model can certainly be developed. Great stuff.

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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 Social Networking in Web 2.0. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? cheap accessible digital hardware].

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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. Who ultimately invested in FourSquare?

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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? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We caught on with the right product, at the right time.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

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. This is where the culture of the startup has to adapt to the cultures of the markets served. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

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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?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

But I believe that if you go down this road you will struggle to simultaneously serve the SMB market. The needs are too different as are the sales channels and marketing messages. Avoid the low end of the market – too elusive and hard to shake enough money out of them. And know that VC will be hard to come by.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

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. This is where the culture of the startup has to adapt to the cultures of the markets served. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ And the fan producers all help market your show because they too want the attention. I repeat – free marketing. He’s one step ahead of the rest of the market. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The company has indicated that their decision to launch TGFF exclusively on the G+ platform was for a number of reasons including: Their continuing success with other games on the platform, the readiness of the G+ team, and the compelling marketing and promotional package Google offered to Kabam.

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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.). was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. is Sean Rad.

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Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

Some of the Entrepreneurs in the Bay I’ve learned the most from are: Greg Tseng – smartest person I’ve ever met about user viral marketing and A/B testing. Mark Zuckerberg & Reid Hoffman – hands down built the two best consumer internet applications on the web. Peter Pham – best networker / connector in web 2.0.

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Alon Schwartz

MARCH 25, 2012

Now, that is a nice market to have. A market Check Mate. Not just for consuming content but for sharing content (aka, web 2.0) With less than 45% browser market share and dropping Microsoft is not even situated to control the browser market. But in the past few years things have changed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

There are numerous single sign-on products on the market, such as PassLogix, AccessMaster, Entrust/SignOn, MetaPass SSO, OneSign, and SecureLogin. The latest type of solution is called a “web profile aggregator” built as a portal to a group of similar applications or premium content which can be accessed through a common login.

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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.

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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. They've built successful companies, but looking at the IPO market they're essentially stuck.

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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.

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

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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. And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

In addition, Web 2.0 was a proliferation of user generated content which created the need for Web 3.0, Its a huge market. Every day, there are numerous examples of videos, articles, images, music that reach us via CHNL that simply don’t exist / could never exist outside of the internet. Why Social Networking?

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