InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

For instance, consumers can effortlessly click on a desktop Facebook ad, surf a site to learn more and then execute a purchase or fill out a lead form, via their large screen, mouse and full-sized keyboard. The growth in mobile as an advertising platform is driving more consumer-to-businesses calls than ever before.

Company 200

Company Companies Mobile Advertising 200

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

We spoke with Jonathan about the advantages of SwoopThat over existing sites. Jonathan Simkin: What makes us unique from other sites, is we're here to help students save time, in addition to money, when they buy books. How did you come up with the web site? What's SwoopThat? You've got to find each one, and research them online.

UCSD 185

UCSD Course Startup Sites 185

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. Allison Dollar: SnapCuts is a digital media marketing platform, which uses social video messaging. In a mobile world, what's a unique way to reach out to your friends and others?

Social Network 246

Social Network Mobile Media Examples 246

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. TweetPhoto - Real-time photo sharing platform. billion to Yahoo!

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. So what's the revenue model for the site?

Patents 179

Patents CarsDirect Sites Pomona 179

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. Milo Sindell: Knowledge Genie is a software platform that anybody can use to capture, package, and publish what they know into an interactive online software application.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

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. Employee engagement is something we'll be releasing into our platform shortly.

Causecast 222

Causecast Startup Content Education 222

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

LoveIt is a site for individuals and groups to discover, collect, organize and share images they love in public or private collections. We’re a social site and ultimately the public will tell us what our demographic is, but our expectation is that our audience will include everyone who loves to look at and share images.

Organization 90

Organization Content Tool Blogging 90

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Blayze , the first online video audience development platform that empowers brands, YouTube channels, and media companies to buy and sell highly targeted new viewers. The YouTube platform helps influencers build a massive audience but makes monetization challenging. Be sure to check out these new startups and watch them grow.

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The intent of our Spotlight events is always simple: to provide a live platform to showcase the very companies that our driving our tech/start up industry, to show our hometown investors a handful of worthwhile companies, and to give other founders some inspiration and innovation for their own companies.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. We decided to formalize our investing in October, and call it TYLT Labs, so here we are.

Seed Funding 220

Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

We were developing games, applications, and WAP sites for lots of carriers around the world while at Twistbox. Dave Waldman: While creating our email product, we'd done quite a bit of work on patenting the processes we were going through, and liked the concept of private messaging. What's the idea behind the Twitter support?

Email 185

Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

AdWords is on Google.com, AdSense is a distributed platform across many different Web sites where if youre a small publisher and you put AdSense on your Web site and someone clicks, you get part of the revenue and Google gets part of the revenue. Okay, thats AdSense. Well, that technology came from an L.A.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. And covered we did.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Patent Lawsuit 6. Liquidation After developing one of the most popular sites on the Internet and inventing a technology platform that enabled companies to grow their user base and generate revenue through online advertising, I felt it was time to take these experiences to market on a much larger scale. All-Star Team 4.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand. of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I just saw an interesting step in that direction via a new book “ Entrepreneurial DNA ,” by Joe Abraham , with his assessment web site. His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, including StartupAmerica , and CoFoundersLab.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Mentor Framework Web 96