socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. That was the genesis of the site. It was discouraging.

Google 236

Google Sites Startup Web 236

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

We now have over 100 million users visiting our owned and operated sites, and we're also doing this for other people like USA Today. But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.

Demand 240

Demand Media eHow Content 240

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

My understanding is that this is why HackerNews makes it hard to create links to articles posted there and I’ve been told both sites have algorithms that favor people upvoting from the “new story homepage” versus direct-click links to the story where there are invariably people who are intentionally trying to drive viral adoption.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

As much of the world has shifted to mobile, smartphones are an important way to reach consumers. However, this year many brands still won’t deliver a full mobile experience, which is to say that, in 2016, many retailers still won’t have apps. The report notes that in general, the companies that prioritize mobile had modest budgets.

Mobile 40

Mobile Sites Custom Customer 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Not just URLs that the developer created, but snippets of their source code that show how they write (comments, formatting, etc). ? Even if you can’t read the code, if it looks organized, and you see a mix of English words (comments) around code that looks like it has structure, then you can get an idea of how they organize things.

CTO Hire 81

CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop Development 81

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. We have a number of curation and publishing tolls that let our users write metacontent and annotations on the content, and to create fresh content feeds they can place on their website, in a newsletter, on mobile, or on social.

Web 237

Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Personalize a simple web site. Publish the site and now you are in business. But, don’t be fooled into expecting people to flock to your site after you tell a few friends. The cost of entry has never been lower.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Will Henshall: Focus@will is the first, ever music service which helps with focus and distraction, while writing, reading, and studying. It's been very exciting, we're seeing an extraordinary amount of stickiness on the site. People are signing up for the site, and we're finding they're staying on the site for two hours and 39 minutes.

Help 219

Help Startup Sites Research 219

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

And if it asks for their email address try to find it on their site or blog. Did you know that the Linkedin mobile app allows you to add anyone without knowing their email? That is how I got to write for this site, I added another writer on Twitter, we exchanged emails, I asked about this site and she passed me along to the editor.

Design 91

Design Networking Social Media Google 91

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Unlike typical review sites, our platform does not use star ratings or long reviews. On myfab5, people rank their favorite places instead of giving them star ratings and write bite-sized reviews instead of writing long reviews. If you search for pizza on a site like Yelp , you will see a list of places that are between 3.5

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

This article wasn’t actually from a single interview, but the result of a couple of conversations with a co-founder of Rap Genius , the wildly profiled lyrics annotation site. What they do: They’re a website, platform, and now mobile-app for crowdsourced annotation of song lyrics and texts. Today’s Interview.

Startup 93

Startup Mobile Entertainment Sites 93

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. So even if that business doesn't exist as anything but a web site, we want them to avoid unnecessary technology risks. A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000.

Web 200

Web Platform Technology JavaScript 200

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. with the clips.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

James Tamplin: The idea originally was a mobile payment system, but that ran into trouble when we found out that a mobile payment system would have to rely on the cooperation of the credit card networks. How do people go about using the site? Why not just write your phone number or information on an item?

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Writing Ideas 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. The article can take 10 hours to write a good article and the paperwork can take five hours. Where do you see mobile going?

Journal 90

Journal Startup Writing Media 90

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

That's the fascinating story behind Los Angeles-based Earbits (www.earbits.com), which offers up a mobile music streaming service focused on discovering both new and talent. The day after we shut down the site, we got an email from this company, saying they had a big opportunity they'd like to talk to us about.

Software Review 100

Software Review Startup Metrics Content 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. “The Meebo MiniBar sits on the bottom of your browser and is the social layer connecting people on sites including TV Guide and TMZ. What is your mobile strategy? For Meebo 1.3%

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans. Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

We have software which allows you to select which web sites you want to do this for, prioritizing them above others, and dedicates space on your hard drive which provides a faster, always-on capability for specific web sites. It's completely transparent to the web sites we are supporting. A large site will run faster.

SaaS 127

SaaS Web Google Sites 127

socalTECH

MAY 20, 2016

Those are the single merchants, who use Stripe to build a website, and also for mobile apps. It's all on his site, and we provision things in real time, so that he can process payments. I'm actually writing a book on raising money this way. Nowadays, VCs are just going to later stage and are writing bigger checks.

Platform 113

Platform Startup Ticketmaster Writing 113

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

An example is one we recently launched with Virgin Mobile and Katy Perry, where we allow people to volunteer to help youth homelessness, track that with our patent-pending cause tracking and rewards systems, and where those volunteers can get tickets to a concert. That's on the cause marketing side of things.

Causecast 222

Causecast Startup Content Education 222

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Then, Bruce and I met about four years ago, at a company called Evryx Technology/SnapNow, which was a mobile marketing/mobile search firm using visual recognition. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Bruce was an investor in the Series A round there.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Month by month, the hospitality business is sorting out how mobile plays a role in increasing revenue and driving loyalty. Write it down…. It drives revenue & engages guests."

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. I can tell you we did four investments in Southern California last year, and in none of those deals did we run into super angels, even though we are writing checks as small as $50,000. There are big companies being build around the mobile phone.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. I first reviewed the “Alleys and Pavilions” company list provided by the TechCrunch site. So if you had a mobile app I probably wouldn’t have been interested.

Press 97

Press Startup Technical Review Email 97

InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

In several cases, we eventually productized summer Intern projects, including a mobile version of GoToMyPC which we called PocketView. It was not possible to replicate this strategy at Expertcity, as a tour of an office in which people were writing software code did not have the same allure.

Startup 244

Startup Software Review Technical Review Class 244

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

For a big company, that might be through their own sales force, and for a smaller company it might be a small team which is operating the site themselves. There is noe one else powering as many ad sites, in terms of revenue. For instance, they might be selling ad space directly. They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis.

OpenX 242

OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Jenna can write a recommendation on Andy’s profile or send an email to friends recommending Andy, one of his workout plans or the fitness event she’s registered for. Advertising revenue is generated from each site visitor, paid or otherwise. Android Apps & Software Entrepreneurship Google iPad Mobile Startups'

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. They created a reason for their customers to aggregate on their site on a regular basis. By definition, you read blogs. Apparently not.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I created Postcard On The Run because I was excited by the the idea of sharing and creating a keepsake from a mobile device, and making it more than just posting it online. Nowadays, when you post something online, whether that is an image in a gallery or social networking site, it only has a lifespan of just a few seconds.

Email 218

Email Startup Ideas Burbank 218

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. The site has since grown to nearly 7.5

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. But the problem with being all in – all in for me, let’s say I can write $10 to $12 million per company. Am I allowed to say this?

Startup 337

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

This year, it being our third year in a row conducting on site interviews and live streaming, we definitely had to ensure this year’s lineup was up to snuff with the great ongoings of SXSW. James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99