SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product.

Web 150

Web Sites Email HTML 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

In fact, some totally avoid it, assuming their product or solution will speak for itself later. Contributing to industry blogs, or starting your own, is an ideal way to express your positive values, and build a reputation that can save you later if your product stumbles, or you receive some negative challenges.

Product 127

Product Entrepreneur Technical Advisors Technical Review 127

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today. It's all about sourcing and the workflow of recruitment.

Sites 240

Sites Startup Tool CTO Hire 240

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. First, what is All About Addiction about? The idea was to make it simpler for people to find rehab.

UCLA 204

UCLA Research Tech Coast Angels Offshore 204

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

Los Angeles-based GoGuardian , a developer of educaitonal software, says it is targeting the problem of suicide and self-harm in K-12 schools, with a new product called Beacon. According to GoGuardian, its new tool uses mahcine learning to identify and alert school staff about at-risk students, so they can get assistance they need.

Software 100

Software Social Media Equity Tool 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2008

Los Angeles-based magnify360, a provider of web page optimization tools, has lauched a new product for optimizing Google AdWords advertising, the firm announced today. magnify360 said it will be adding support for similar campaign tools for Yahoo, MSN, Comssion Junction, and Atlas this quarter. READ MORE>>

Advertising 100

Advertising Tool Yahoo Google 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly. Minimize investment in prototypes and tooling. You can now get tooling and products built very quickly either in the US or in China, with delayed payment options. Martin Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 162

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Outsource Development 162

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2017

With more people to target, and more tools at their disposal, hackers have reshaped the cyber security landscape in the past decade. Detection : identify new threats with “detection points that span all the access vectors (email, Web, Internet points of presence, etc.).”. Improve your information security with ISO 27001.

Email 185

Email Tool Study Examples 185

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2010

Mehdi Daoudi is CEO of CatchPoint Systems (www.catchpoint.com), a new Los Angeles startup focused on the web site and web application monitoring industry. Daoudi spoke to us about how his experience at DoubleClick resulted in starting up CatchPoint. We're trying to make monitoring of web sites and applications sexy and simple.

Tool 232

Tool Web Startup Sites 232

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. You left the meeting dreaming about money and finally having resources to do all of the things you wanted to do.

Software Review 381

Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

So for example, when you’re ordering food at a game or concert, Appetize’s technology makes it easier to pay in a variety of contactless ways through point of sale (POS) devices, self-service kiosks, handheld devices, online ordering, mobile web and API integrations. Image Credits: SpotOn.

Technical Review 296

Technical Review Software Review Invest Acquisition 296

TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup. Snap investment Hardworkers. Charli Cohen : a “next-gen” streetwear fashion brand. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API.

Invest 237

Invest Startup Artificial Inteligence Class 237

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Rather, these were the words given in response to the opening question to a panel of product managers to “describe their occupation” in 3 words or less, + an additional word on what their biggest challenge was. Jay Stakelon , VP Product Design, Fullscreen. Jen Robinson , Head of Product Manager, Bigframe.

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

Are you a content creator for the web? We spoke with co-founders Juan Bruce and Jason Ahmad about Epoxy''s mission, its roots from projects at Team Downey, the production firm of Robert Downey Jr., One of our small clients there was Team Downey, the production firm of Robert Downey Jr.,

Downey 215

Downey Content Help Startup 215

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Maybe we just have too many tools at our disposal. Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. Fast forward to the present with Mingly announcing the launch of two new products to expand their services to a wider audience of users.

Web 74

Web Social Network Email Networking 74

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Surely a savvy, modern-day entrepreneur can utilize online tools to leverage young peoples’ collective energy and fervor. . Understandably, the pricing has to be excessive to provide sufficient margin for the product’s producer and an adequate incentive for the non-profit organization. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Boys To Men.

Web 2.0 222

Web 2.0 Web Sales Outsource Development 222

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I was talking with an early-stage founder who has a product vision and wants to get it built. He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. Founder : Ummm. what do you mean?

Develop 354

Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2017

We spoke with Eric Futoran , the CEO of Embrace.io, who also was co-founder of Scopely, to learn more about the company's software. is literally built out of what my co-founders and I, and a bunch of investors in first generation mobile, first games and tools like Burstly and Testflight had seen firsthand. What is Embrace.IO?

Mobile 178

Mobile Develop Development Tool 178

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. It’s also one of the most accountable, with in-depth data provided by search engines about performance. Some consider direct mail very expensive or dead as a lead-generation tool. Trade shows.

Marketing 114

Marketing Invest Social Media SEM 114

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Turn on your phone and look at the productivity folder. Kind of like a disarrayed choose your own adventure book about your life. You’ll be more productive within three weeks time. We discuss productivity, emails, communication, and the dynamics of the team. We’ve been there. We’ve all been there.

Product 99

Product Ideas Email Organization 99

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web. “If There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) Increase the production of your content.It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”.The Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media.

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Divshot''s solution is an innovative web development tool, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process.

Customer 195

Customer Custom Template Startup 195

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the interests of helping you work smarter and last longer, I would like to offer my top ten list of key resource drains to avoid in early businesses and startups, based on my years of advising entrepreneurs and my own business experience: Expanding your product line too quickly for scaling. People with the wrong tools or no training.

Outsource Development 122

Outsource Development Outsource Metrics Technical Review 122

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0. First, talk about what SmartPants Vitamins are?

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

Vinny talked with us about his start, which allows users to discuss and collaborate on their stocks and finances in a social way. What is Stockr all about? In that network, we bring in content from all over the web. Unlike anywhere else on the web, you can then respond directly when you see that comment.

Social Network 239

Social Network Startup Networking Content 239

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Every aspiring entrepreneur I know is talking about the fact that there are over 2,000 billionaires in the world today, and how their innovative idea could make them one of the next ones. Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide.

Outsource Development 154

Outsource Development Social Media Software Review Customer 154

socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Sidevision (www.sidevision.com) has developed a set of tools--aimed at content creators, multi-channel networks (MCNs), and others--to help connect online videos with e-commerce. What is Sidevision all about? Justin Wu: Last year, we talked to Media Camp about our idea, when it was at a much earlier stage.

Commerce 153

Commerce Content Downey Media 153

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. What is CreatorUp all about?

Web 187

Web Content Startup Education 187

InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Divshot''s solution is an innovative web development tool, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process.

Customer 153

Customer Custom Template Startup 153

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. It’s also one of the most accountable, with in-depth data provided by search engines about performance. Some consider direct mail very expensive or dead as a lead-generation tool. Trade shows.

Customer 146

Customer Custom Marketing Startup 146

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. In the IAB study that revealed the graph above, brand advertisers indicated that their number one objective in online advertising was “creating awareness&# followed by “creating purchase intent&# or “likelihood to recommend&# the product.

Advertising 352

Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Most business people aren't doing this in their current CRM tools. What is Nimble is working on? We've set out to fix that.

Google 216

Google Tool Email Sales 216

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

I think we all know by now that a conversation is happening on Twitter and that this extends to talking about brands. The volume of Tweets is enormous and growing at a rapid pace so tools are emerging to help brands manage this information. In an earlier post I spoke about the asymmetric nature of Twitter vs. Facebook.

Social Network 235

Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

How is the changing demographic of web visitors changing how local companies operate? We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company.

Mobile 224

Mobile CTO Hire CPC Web 224

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

Mobile Roadie, headed by Michael Schneider , develops tools that make easy for non-programmers to create their own mobile apps. As Michael tells us, it's now as simple as running the firm's app creation tools, and releasing your app to the world. We sat down with Michael to hear more about his company.

Mobile 239

Mobile Santa Monica Content Tool 239

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace.

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve? We caught on with the right product, at the right time.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248