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APRIL 4, 2020

For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. That integration is the breakthrough that you should be looking for as an entrepreneur.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne: FEM is a video discovery platform that provides quality, relevant video recommendations for any website, app, or content network that is seeking to drive more engagement around video. I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. What is FEM?

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MARCH 1, 2013

However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. Darren Marble: On average, the budget for marketing for feature films is 50 percent of their production budget. Why is this important to filmmakers?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

We recently ran into Chris Tragos , one of the co-founders of Jetpack (www.jetpack.net), provider of an online ad platform. Tragos is a veteran of technology industry here, having come from Spin Media (formerly, Buzznet) with his two other co-founders. Our business is helping those guys make more money, through our better ad product.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 12, 2015

The technological world we live in affords some pretty unique and awesome opportunity, like drone aerobatics. No matter what though, one of my favorite applications of this technology lies in clothing. There’s a company in LA, Qtee.com , which specializes in taking custom clothing to an entirely new level with their web platform.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

NowLive is trying to do just that, leveraging both technology and the entertainment world to build its business. Having done lots of those, I realized that there was a really great opportunity, from the standpoint of harnessing the higher quality in streaming platforms. What's unique about NowLive?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The platform sports a vetted network of film industry leaders that will make commercials for as low as $900, filmed in as little as two hours. “We’ve Tech-based companies immediately understand the need for an explainer video to showcase the rich features of their app or web platform.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

After college Brandon put forth his knowledge of business to work and built his first company and the platform for his future business venutres, Audiolife – a direct-to-consumer eCommerce company. Loaded with his technology and merchandise background, GoodThreads was born. The Way It Works. just defer you from the overall goal.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

We successfully accelerated our product innovation schedule to deliver, in record time, solutions to meet these challenges. And we saw a record number of 278 million clicks to local web pages as more consumers looked to connect with businesses locally. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021?

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APRIL 2, 2014

Pasadena-based Smartify (www.getsmartify.com)''s CEO, Carla Bourque , recently talked to us about the company''s online marketing platform, and how it differentiates itself from a lot of other competitors in the market. As you might imagine, I started as a brand manager in the consumer product goods market. What is Smartify?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The event is a 2-day training in.Net, HTML5, Windows 8, Asp.NET MVC and other Microsoft technologies. In addition, world renowned speakers are invited to discuss the latest trends in technology. I will also demonstrate how various techniques can vastly improve app performance, such as localStorage and Single Page Web Apps.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

spent 2011 raising our seed round, which we used to build our team.and launched the product into beta about a year ago, at the end of 2011. We then spent the first half of 2012 beta testing the product, getting feedback and input to the point where we could start selling it. The platform can be divided into three products.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Productive offices get more done—their workers complete projects faster and bring in more revenue for their organizations. Below you will find several techniques managers can use to encourage office productivity: . Below you will find several techniques managers can use to encourage office productivity: .

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APRIL 22, 2016

We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have.

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APRIL 12, 2013

Full-service Pinterest marketing and technology startup – HelloSociety recently announced it had driven $30 million in additional sales revenue for its over 350 brand clientele through Pinterest. million new users and 22 million unique page views to its clients’ sites as a result of its effective campaign execution.

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MAY 23, 2012

Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform. Our platform is all about connecting early fans and early audiences with new and upcoming movies, months before a movie comes out. We create a page which starts at first rumor, and engages and supports those projects. What is the idea behind Moviepilot?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And how are these concerns exacerbated given that these authors’ target audience is too young to buy cryptocurrency on platforms like Coinbase and Gemini? But monetizing fan fiction through online platforms is a trickier matter. Does minting those stories as NFTs affect the copyright of those stories?

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MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches?

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Our first product is called Seed, which is a screening test for male infertility. Where was the technology for this developed? What's the biggest challenge you've had in bringing this product to market? I think the thing that is hard, is getting people to recognize how this product impacts their practice. What is Episona?

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APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. And of course we had, TheMan.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Former Vice President of Technology at eHarmony and Vice President of Engineering at the Rubicon Project. Value Prop Twitter Style : SteelHouse’s Behavioral Commerce platform increases online conversions via targeted incentives based on shopper personality and behavior. You can watch the video below or on YouTube here: [link].

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Reed Shafnner: Both Chris and I had lots of experience with hiring and recruiting in the technology space. Obviously, in the technology space, recruiting is a very different think than elsewhere. If you look at the career sites and pages out there right now, they look like they were built a decade ago. How did you two meet?

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product. That very big vision is an open database platform, providing data as a service across different verticals. Gil, thanks for the time today. They're most interested in the place database we're offering.

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JULY 16, 2012

In addition, a number of advertisers have invested significant resources into creating libraries of video content which effectively communicate brand and product attributes but are incapable of eliciting a particular action, such as: clicking to a landing page, completing a lead form, or initiating a purchase.

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MARCH 24, 2010

The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. Is this installed software, or web technology? Brandon Hance: It's all web-based technology, and software we've build in-house. That might be 50 shirts, our a couple hundred CDs. for a shirt.

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JULY 25, 2012

RingRevenue's unique technology allows online and offline advertisers and publishers to consistently increase revenues from mobile, print, search and email campaigns by tracking the phone calls generated by such ads. Consumers are calling advertisers tens of billions (yes billions) of times a year to inquire about products and to buy things.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing].

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link. I was wrong.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. Did you know that their original product wasn’t a video camera? Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. In many ways that might be one way to interpret even Facebook where Sheryl stepped in as COO but by all accounts ran much of Facebook for a few years (other than product). Much less has been said about when the technical CEO is the best person to run the company.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. It’s core platform stuff.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2010

Collecta delivers real-time streaming news, via widgets, APIs and its Site Search Platform. Prior to that, Gerry was SVP for AOL’s Search and Directional Media group, where he managed the AOL Search, Local Search, Yellow Pages; Netscape Search; and eCommerce Search properties, including all search-based revenue and advertising initiatives.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

LB: Currently, we are about 75% and that’s really because in this phase we have developed what I think is the most critical aspect of our platform, which is the technology that allows us to truly build our community. We’ve made it very easy for people to access the Miigle platform. Personas in Miigle are very important.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. People like free.

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