TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

There is an application process and fee for members to join Collab Studio ATL, but the group hopes these costs will be subsidized by partners in the future — they say that the application process is more about assessing the needs about an entrepreneur or creator and what services they require from the space.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

There’s Snapchat that uses photos and then instantly disappears after 10 seconds, and then there’s the up-comer, Emojli , that uses tiny cartoonish icons for engagement. Snap Away with Snapchat. Snapchat, founded by Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel, boasts of its massive following among kids and teenagers.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2019

Snap is taking a leaf out of the Asian messaging app playbook as its social messaging service enters a new era. The company unveiled a series of new strategies that are aimed at breathing fresh life into the service which has been ruthlessly cloned by Facebook across Instagram, WhatsApp, and even its primary social network. The result?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups. by 15 million users since 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. When the glass is only.04%

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. So, if you're a marketer, how do you track and encourage those word-of-mouth recommendations? Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups. in 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. When the glass is only.04% Maybe they just don’t care.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2014

ON is like a smorgasbord of the best features from other social media platforms and combines it into one experience that could change the way we meet new people. What ON does differently is take the best parts of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Tinder and roll into one social media platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

It is fitting that 2012 is the year that Snapchat really took off in Los Angeles and raised its first venture capital and began a five year ascent to becoming LA’s most recognizable startup company and largest IPO alongside LAs other great startup brands such as Riot Games and Tinder. LA has only just begun.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

We have a couple of thousand retailers and a product catalog of 80 million products, and every day, people are posting their photos and videos to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter. The second part of our app is Know It, which is a video on demand platform. Retailers will pay them for those recommendations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. In 2014 Tumblr overtook Instagram as fastest-growing social platform, and Snapchat is the fastest-growing mobile app, driven largely by Millennials and teens. This happens today when you talk to people through social media and responsive customer service.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2013

No, not Snapchat--it''s Tinder --a mobile app and service which lets users rate people nearby them, and if the feeling is mutual, connect them. But, there wasn''t a platform out there dedicated and effective to meeting new people. Your service seems to have become very popular, very quickly--why is that?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 29, 2019

Equidate, one of the trading platforms that help employees sell their shares in pre-IPO unicorn companies, rolled out a new name today and announced a $35 million expansion of its $50 million funding round publicized in July.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

When we started the business, we really didn't have a lot of funding, but it made a lot of sense, and we got lots of drivers on the platform. So far we've been very successful in recruiting, with people from Blizzard, Apple, Snapchat, and other great companies. Plus, our family and our industry connections gave us a head start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Even with instant two-way communication via the Internet and mobile phones, your greatest new solution or service won’t found or properly recognized without marketing. For young consumers today, it may be Instagram or Snapchat, while B2B offerings should take a hard look at LinkedIn and other business forums. every month.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

It's really the home of a broad base of services to help media and tech companies develop new opportunities, and accelerate their success. The question for all of these, is how do you differentiate your subscription service. Snapchat started as a communications company, but it too is transforming itself into a media company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, Kik, and other applications. Don’t connect the latest platform, which may be transient, with the larger phenomenon of digitally enabled social conversations. If you can figure out why people care about your product, you’ll have success regardless of the platform du jour.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

So the question is: what new back-end services can Glass feed and receive data from? What can Glass do that smartphones can’t, and how will that additional / new data drive new back-end services? I expect to see a flood of services that try to take advantage of Glass’s ability to capture pictures and videos so effortlessly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And while producers also have their own direct websites and distributors have their own originals: The world is specializing into mostly content producers and content distributors plus social platforms that also distribute video like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine and Snapchat.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

By making it easier to capture value for goods & services that ordinary people provide and by creating a means of storing value today that can be used in the future — currencies have literally changed society and the world. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter blockchain.

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

SMASHD’s first Cohort brought four early-stage + one mature company into the fold: Sidestep : Mobile platform for live events that allows fans to order merchandise before, during and after an event for VIP pickup and delivery, who has relationships in place with Ticketmaster, and is a merch partner on Beyonce’s latest tour.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. It had strong platform usage.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Gripe worked well as a social service, but it just didn't work as a business. We also had to secure the music rights and get musicians on the platform, so that they could benefit from the use of their music. Snapchat is a disappearing moment, Instagram is a moment in time, Twitter is a moment with a status or link.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Gripe worked well as a social service, but it just didn't work as a business. We also had to secure the music rights and get musicians on the platform, so that they could benefit from the use of their music. Snapchat is a disappearing moment, Instagram is a moment in time, Twitter is a moment with a status or link.

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Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Think about Snapchat.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

You see – running a SaaS platform for customers like you is the ONLY thing our team does. If you want that kind of service focus I think we’d be a better fit than your internal IT department.” How responsive are they to your needs now? Do they carry pagers and respond to outages 24/7/365?

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