Tech.Co

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are just five days left to enter the digital detox competition set up by Icelandic Yogurt company Siggi’s Dairy, which has pledged to give selected contestants $10,000 to spend an entire month “detoxing” without a smartphone or social media. Or appear as if you're in another country? Should I Digitally Detox Anyway?

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2009

Los Angeles-based SodaHead.com , the social question-and-answer and polling startup headed by former MySpace VP of Operations Jason Feffer, is morphing its focus towards the social news area, saying last night that the company is looking to become a "social newspaper." million people who visit the site monthly.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Launching and growing a startup is one of the biggest missions an entrepreneur can undertake. But while competition remains fierce, the advancement and accessibility of smart solutions are making it easy than ever for startups to find their feet. VPN Startup tool: VPN Price: Free Hide.me While Hide.me

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Everyone is talking about how social media can help you jumpstart your business at no cost, and experts are springing up on all sides to help you do it at a high cost. So who do you believe, and what are the keys to success for your startup? Understand the basic tools – the social media trinity.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We recently completed a web-based application that uses a unique algorithm to match professionals with new career opportunities. As part of the onboarding process, the app asks both job seekers and employers what they’re looking for - in a text box - while providing a few suggestions in a pop-up.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2012

A new startup Silicon Beach LA , focused on creating a community portal for the Los Angeles and Silicon Beach community, launched Thursday, saying that it has launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a Silicon Beach themed-bus (nicknamed "Monica"), which will help promote the region at events. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Gabe Rivera wrote a post on why TechMeme is now using its editors to curate titles that appear on its site. It an era of social media and newsreaders titles matter a lot. It an era of social media and newsreaders titles matter a lot. It’s like a Pachinko machine (yes, I had one in my house growing up).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

In my experience, the good news is that everyone is becoming more and more comfortable with relationships via the new media and technology. The bad news is that I still find a lot of you who don’t use these tools effectively, or haven’t learned the rules for nurturing remote relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

In my view, starting a new business has never been easier, and according to reports from the Kaufmann Foundation , the numbers are finally here to show it. The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

It’s a new age for aspiring entrepreneurs, where anyone with a dream or a hobby should be turning it into a business. The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first. Patent and Trademark Office site for a few hundred dollars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2010

Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Twitter advertising startup out of Idealab, said today that it has acquired Twidroid , which develops its own Twitter client for Android phones. TweetUp will power the ads on both Twidroyd, as well as the popurls site. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Idealab Social Media Acquisition Pasadena 189

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web. What's keeping you up at night?

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. Jeff Curie: I''ve been a startup guy here in Orange County for a long time.

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

With the advent of social media and the pervasive move to smartphones, even customers who still prefer to purchase in brick-and-mortar stores have dramatically changed their shopping habits. The best sites engage customers more deeply and add more value. In addition, trends change rapidly and you need to keep up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2011

There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community has spawned a new breed of Internet startups, called “hyperlocal.” These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I recently had a conversation with an pre-launch startup where they discussed how SEO was going to be really important for them. They went on to describe a fairly common type of site that has some original content, but not much. That's structuring your pages and your site to optimize it for search. This can help juice your SEO.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2020

However, as a business owner, you know that resting on your laurels can be dangerous, which is why staying up to date with the latest business technology is a necessity. Get started with a POS system today. Get started with field service software today. Get started with a digital marketing platform today.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I love Namechk.com for this.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutelier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

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Education Sites Startup News 201

SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. If that’s news to you, here are eleven of Los Angles’ best and brightest. Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Social Enterprise: Hub LA. Social Media: Snapchat.

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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. The film intern spelled it out for him and that’s when he woke up.

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Startup Social Media Platform Media 69

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2021

Now, Shopify has apparently approached major publishers including Complex and Vox Media as well as getting Buzzfeed to sign on to the new program. This, of course, is potentially game-changing news for Shopify users. Interestingly, the new initiative will let publishers create their own Shopify-powered online stores.

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Marketing Buzzfeed Guide Platform 177

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Media Framework Social Media Metrics 95

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons”. Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that comes to you site since much of it will be fleeting. And if you’re not careful you might start to believe your own hype. It sets the your company’s trajectory for the next several months. We closed a $16.5

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Today's interview is with Jo Webber , the CEO and founder of Pod.io , a startup which has developed an app to help people connect with others over shared interests. Jo told us why, in a world full of social networking apps, why Pod.io However, if you want to meet new people through Facebook, it's very difficult. What is Pod.io?

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Mentor Southern California Startup Networking 157

socalTECH

MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutleier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

Education 171

Education Sites Startup News 171

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Introducing Bitcoinference | A Decentralized Conference , hosted by illustrious startup accelerator, 500 Startups. Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

He is a marketing professional with over 8 years of extensive online and social media marketing experience. Patrick is the man behind all the marketing aspects of what could be called one of the funniest sites on the web. He gives up the goods and a few tips on what you could do to help market your company.

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Sites Marketing Social Media Social Network 61

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2011

USC hosted its first Startup Weekend from September 23rd to 25th and it rocked! First up was Andrew Skotzko , Director of Growth for Chill.com, who started the night with an attention grabbing introduction (a few F-bombs were dropped along the way) and was “the reason why I grew the balls to go and pitch an idea”, said one participant.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 28, 2012

TechZulu caught up with Adam Fridman , founder MeetAdvisors and this is what he said. Adam Fridman, MSF from DePaul, 4 years investment banking and 10 years in business development consulting and start ups. They should come to him, and that’s how MeetAdvisors started.”. Which startups or entrepreneurs have signed up?

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Entrepreneur Startup Paramount Social Media 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Marketing Social Media Framework Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community has spawned a new breed of Internet startups, called “hyperlocal.” These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues.

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Entrepreneur News Sites RSS 96

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Cryptocurrency is rarely out of the news, but the recent case involving Canadian currency exchange QuadrigaCX is a real show stopper. Cotton’s death might seem like the start of the company’s problems, but truth be told, it was already on the rocks before this news. Earlier Troubles for QuadrigaCX. What Happens Next?

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