socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2017

How to you take the recurring revenue model--which has been popular with software and other online services--an apply that to physical products and services? Employees love it, because not only are they getting better tasking, healthier products, but also because they are continually discovering new snacks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.”

Press 96

Press Entrepreneur Social Media Training 96

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC.

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Venture Capital Startup Invest Cloud Computing 150

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. We try to make it very easy for the average consumer to get more financial information, content, and ultimately, product, in the financial industry. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M

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Content Social Media Startup Artificial Inteligence 124

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Len Short is truly an online marketing pioneer, heading up marketing at Charles Schwab, AOL and then (PRODUCT)RED. He was kind enough to conduct a video interview from his car. You can watch my interview with Len below or on YouTube here: [link]. Len later joined (PRODUCT)RED as its Founding CMO.

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Google Technical Advisors Technical Review Equity 220

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

Artificial Inteligence 140

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. Entity’s sweet spot is a bifurcated one, Schwab said in an interview.

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Mentor Training Startup Course 297

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

How we do so, is we help consumers discover new products and shop for them. Historically, ThisNext has always been the umbrella brand to help people shop for product they are interested in, across multiple verticals. Traditionally, that has been products in fashion/beauty, home/garden, sports/outdoors, and parenting and green.

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Content Demand Sites Media 165

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

To hear how he bootstrapped the company to that size, we caught up with Asher earlier this week for a quick interview. Asher Delug: We have had amazing growth coming from our smart wall product, our inter-app interstitial ad product, which patent pending. Plus, our In-App Banner Apps product has also been scaling very fast.

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Startup Mobile Advertising Organization 196

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO.

Content 193

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

The final clip is Fred & I talking about whether “the best product wins” and my assertion that the bias in today’s Silicon Valley dominated tech world there is probably too much emphasis on tech at the expense of how to sell, implement and service customers. It’s easy to invest in today’s momentum categories.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. So, it's quite new.

SaaS 113

SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2012

Ask yourself the tough question about how you might spend that time more productively getting your job done well. There are also many times where that meeting isn’t really focused or productive. Helping with a Job Opportunity / Career / Information Interview. It falls into 2 categories: 1.

Email 359

Email Venture Capital Startup Technical Review 359

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When you are interviewing candidates during the early stages of your startup, who is far more important than what, because the tasks the candidate previously performed may only be partially applicable to the role they will play at your adVenture. For one thing, it is tricky to properly map candidates to the categories noted below.

Entrepreneur 252

Entrepreneur Paramount Startup Organization 252

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.”

Press 105

Press Social Media Startup Training 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.”

Media 55

Media Social Media Startup Training 55

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products. That's where our initial database of products is coming from. Tags: startup entrepreneur levinsohn ross capital fuse best bestbuy consumer interview rosen mickie. READ MORE>>.

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2019

For this morning's interview, we had a chat with Eli Portnoy , the CEO and founder of Culver City-based Sense360 (www.sense360.com), Eli Portnoy: We started with food as our first category, and we have been very focused on it, specifically with quick server restaurants. We've grown over 3X every year over the past three years.

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Startup Culver City Competition Customer 113

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP? Louis and Atlanta.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.” Make every interview memorable.

Training 93

Training Media Entrepreneur Social Media 93

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP.com? Louis and Atlanta.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

VentureHacks laid out the debate in a truly awesome interview & PowerPoint slides if you really want an in-depth understanding of the issue. The fact that I invest less just means the company is earlier stage and needed/wanted less or without a product/market fit we weren’t yet prepared to invest more heavily.

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Seed Funding Funding Venture Capital GRP Partners 298

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Jason Reid , CEO and Co-founder of Giftagram (www.giftagram.com), which announced a $3.2M 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. How does Giftagram work?

Mobile 100

Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. I’m now back & ready for action.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. Where we really want to focus, is on product. We believe, if a customer is put in front of a product oriented business, everything else takes are of itself. Nick Hedges: It was almost exactly a year ago.

Google 113

Google Santa Monica Networking Software 113

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2014

We''ve invested in security software, software-as-a-service, marketplaces, and many other categories I think people wouldn''t necessarily think--looking from the outside--would exist in LA. We want to find the best entrepreneurs and work productively with them, typically through an investment. READ MORE>>.

Startup 206

Startup Capital Incubator Invest 206

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

For our interview today, we sat down with Kevin Anderson , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), the developer of a cloud based enterprise point of sale solutions for venues and events. We provide primarily enterprise, category, point-, and sit in between the legacy guys and mobile guys.

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Entertainment Sales Mobile Startup 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. We're enabling people with access to the channel, to add energy monitoring to their products.

Startup 140

Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

Whatever you’re working on now, the half-life of innovation is so rapid now that your product will soon be out-of-date. In this globally connected world product leads disappear in nano-seconds. It means a welter weight who wants to fight in the heavy-weight category. Increase your number of interviews. Don’t over promise.

Startup 399

Startup Class Blogging Company 399

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results. From that experience, I was looking at every coupon, deal, and product site out there, because they were very active on the M&A front. We have complementary skill sets. READ MORE>>.

Internet Brands 257

Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Our clients are retail, technology, consumer product goods, and other companies who are trying to address challenges with a very complex, digital marketing mix they face every day. As you might imagine, I started as a brand manager in the consumer product goods market. What''s your background, and how did you get into this?

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Marketing Pasadena Platform Email 196

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Your own website can clean a lot of that up, and control that, if that makes sense.

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Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We have been smart about how to make investments in our business, and when we jump into a new category or vertical. We spent time going out there and really talking to customers, doing primary research, and have our customers actually help us build our products. READ MORE>>.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

And of course African Americas and Latinos over-index in spend and consumption in many categories including many health & beauty products, movie theater attendance, mobile phone usage and even social media. Next week I’ll publish a 1-1 interview I did with Troy on Day 1 of the Upfront Summit.].

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Startup Course Entrepreneur 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

They had interviewed telecom operators, handset manufacturers and corporate buyers. I said, “So you interviewed the people to get a plausible story line and then just did a simple estimation of the numbers going forward? It’s important to quantify the value of your product or service. They were more scientific.

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Statistics Startup Report Research 415

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. The problem with using that, is it's now spam--and it will not create a spam category for that email.

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Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216