SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Yahoo Social Media Press 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Yahoo Social Media Press 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. And so you have great local tech press like Business Insider who covers the industry very well. Local press matters. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Press San Diego 378

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

MySpace Alumni, 10a-12p @ Hotel Erwin. For all you working press out there don’t forget TechZulu and Coloft are hosting the press Hub. For all you working press out there don’t forget TechZulu and Coloft are hosting the press Hub. Celebs & Startups Panel, 2-4p @ Viceroy. Volleyball Game.

Rustic Canyon 85

Rustic Canyon CTO Coach Santa Monica Press 85

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

Kevin is founder of Silicon Beach Fest, the first and largest tech, startup and entertainment conference in LA, attracting more than 2,000 attendees, and mentioned in the New York Times, Forbes, TechCrunch, LA Times, and other national and local press.

Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Cornerstone OnDemand Belkin Entertainment Newsletter 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2010

I have read much commentary on my Twitter stream (ironically) and in the press about how investors are going to abandon investments in the Twitter ecosystem because they seem to appear hostile to ecosystem partners. Let me be the first to say that I don’t agree with this notion. Let me explain.

Advertising 276

Advertising Startup Platform News 276

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

MySpace may not have been as successful as Facebook in the end but the executives there learned how to deal with user growth at scale. Remember that you’ll be investing against people who have worked on the Google algorithm and REALLY know what drives SEO. They have real stories about what drives user engagement and viral adoption.

Invest 288

Invest Angel Web 2.0 SEO 288

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

Twiistup 228

Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue. They can then direct staff, allocate budgets, talk to the press, connect you with politicians and attend events. Marketing Muscle.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

When Fox first hired its triumvirate of CEO’s to run MySpace after the founders’ departure, I argued the same. In stead the press story for 2 years was about how they were losing to Facebook and continuing to hemorrhage revenue and people. board had had Reed Hasting’s clarity and boldness.

Netflix 329

Netflix Evite Pricing Hulu 329

socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2010

I could raise $50,000 dollars and have someone produce my album, but I was a punk band in a garage and weren't going to raise $50,000--we just wanted to raise $1000 so we could record at our friend's house for free, and press a thousand CDs for that $1000. We didn't have that option. What were you doing before you started the site?

Sites 237

Sites Startup Invest SoCalTech 237

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

Those networks also tend to come and go--just look at MySpace, which was huge, and now it's just been purchased for a tenth of the price it was sold for last. Since then, we did a little launch at CES for VoxOx, and although we didn't have a big booth, we had some press activity and we've almost doubled the size of our user base.

Social Network 259

Social Network Platform Networking Google 259

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Customers Include: Reuters, Associated Press, , Dow Jones, Ask.com , healthcare companies, and major investment banks and hedge funds. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

This is important both to maintain a consistent user experience (think the cleanliness of Facebook UI versus that of MySpace where users controlled the UI more) as well as to have advertising be an important part of their economic future. So they went after controlling the user clients.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2010

If it wasn't obvious enough in the press room, one needed only to look at the half-empty mezzanine which was nearly full at the beginning. Nominees: Circle of Eight I Married on MySpace Valemont Wreck and Salvage: Suppendapo. This year, the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards was nothing short of a disaster. Twitter wasn't happy either.

Web 40

Web News Technical Review Writing 40