socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We don't provide specifics of how you did with your level of unconscious bias, but as a member of a certain demographic category, your information shows up in a bucket along with forty nine other people. How did you decide this needed to be a combination of software and content? My background is in consumer software.

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Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Here is the video link or click on the image above. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. What do you think about accuracy of video search ? (

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A In fact, new funds have launched there with expertise in the category. invests exclusively in the space.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

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. And some angels running around like Reid Hoffman & Keith Rabois. But not many others.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Startup Invest Cloud Computing 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

If you want to watch just parts of the video we went exactly in this order so you can more easily orient yourself to what you want to hear. We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. In the video I also covered why you shouldn’t raise too much money too early in your company’s existence. Minutes 11-16 in the video. << And I talked a lot about persistence in the video. This is wrong. I eventually needed more money.

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. In a way, startups have become kind of like the video game industry. It might be online videos targeting niche audience.

Startup 309

Startup Cloud Computing Venture Capital Marketing 309

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. If you were a new developer in this category you often had to sub-contract in a fees-for-service arrangement to build for the big guys.

Startup 150

Startup Outsource Development Mobile Southern California 150

SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

The 10 Most Tempting Software Startup Categories - OnStartups , March 1, 2010 I’ve been in the software startup business for a long time. One thing I have found interesting is that amongst first-time software entrepreneurs, certain “patterns” of applications kept recurring. Not that it’s always a bad thing.

Startup 150

Startup Software Review Competition SoCal 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This strategy is called breakaway positioning, since it is intended to redefine how consumers see the product, by borrowing features drawn from an entirely different product category. For example, Swatch defined their new category of watches as fashion accessories, rather than timepieces. Expand the market to new domains.

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Examples Customer Custom Product 67

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Watching video online has never been more accessible than ever. But to get to certain videos, viewers need to find the right website or know some keywords to view it. Pheebo TV does away with all that and places every popular video channel viewers want into one app. AM: I think for video they are great. What is Pheebo?

Startup 106

Startup Design Mobile Software Review 106

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Nobody will be immune because in a bull market executives are paid to “innovate” so they sign software contracts and run projects. It takes time to sell in your software, get it implemented, prove the value, build a business case, gain executive support and then roll it out more broadly. A “true crime” video game.

Venture Capital 263

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Writing 263

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

Planes have evolved on the inside through the addition of features like all-glass cockpits and fly-by-wire software. An iPhone is an alarm clock, a camera, a pager, a game console, a compass, a map, an audio and video recorder, a phone, and a Dick Tracy two-way video link. Or maybe that’s all wrong. Let me explain.

Software Review 40

Software Review Screening Design Mobile 40

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

People outside of your friendship circle, i.e. strangers, will not donate until the progress bar shows 20% to 30% ( this number is lower in the gadgets category and higher in causes category ) — no one wants to be the first. Add Photos/Video. Adding project photos and/or video increases the success rate as well.

Startup 109

Startup Examples Social Media Media 109

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). MySpace didn’t handle images or video well. They have become a juggernaut in online advertising, pictures, video and online games.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price.

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Check your brand definition against the clarity of this one from Xerox for office software. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. These days, video production is also a useful skill. Assess social media relevance to your product or service.

Social Media 58

Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2011

Rich Rygg: Our software has the ability to record every geolocation you go to. It also gives you the ability to take photos, make comments, and eventually, take in video and audio comments. Alerts can come in three categories. They can keep it private, or public, or share it with a group of individuals.

eHarmony 219

eHarmony Seed Funding Yahoo Examples 219

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). My firm was an early investor in Overture (then called GoTo.com) who created this category. I divide the stream into 2 categories: one is the “I’m at dinner with so-and-so&# Tweet. was the 2-way web.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We've got various features that let them do that, search by lyrics, as well as curated categories, and a unique circular waveform controller interactive design tool built in conjunction with the Pasadena Art Center College of Design, which lets them scrub around a song and choose that 10 second portion with one finger. All are separate.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach Startup Pasadena Angels 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

The email also allows attachments of photos, shows live status updates and Tweets and has chat and video calls connected across all contacts on one’s social networks. Users also create their own folders,categories and preferences. Mail Assistant. Email is Personal and Mobile.

Newsletter 71

Newsletter Email Social Network Guide 71

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

The curated design and photography-driven entertainment site is where GIFs and memes intermingle with stunning photography, video and the ability to purchase in app. If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community.

Seed Funding 40

Seed Funding Funding Commerce Social Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Okay I’m exaggerating, but if you’re still with me, I feel your pain; of not knowing what keyword to search your inbox for to find your favorite cat video. The team originally did A/B testing with #hashtags versus /slashtags with one to denote higher categories. Introducing Fetchnotes. Their claim?

Product 99

Product Ideas Email Organization 99

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. But a certain amount gets lost in the headlines – especially when not everybody actually heard the video and knows the nuance of the message. Fair enough.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 9, 2013

The web consists of over 1,000,000 movies and shows and 150,000 of them are instantly watchable and have over three times the amount of free shows and videos for you to play. Just look up the name, show, or a person and all those categories are listed in thumbnail style. Searching is very simple.

Screening 68

Screening Web Summary Sites 68

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2009

Brian Nilles, the firm's CEO, is no stranger to the 3D animation and computer graphics market, having served for ten years as CEO of Vicon Motion Capture, and he sat down with us to chat Darwin Dimensions and what's special about the firm's avatar software. There's a broad set of categories, and even others we hadn't anticipated.

Tool 113

Tool Platform Venture Capital Startup 113

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. Billions of video views on YouTube. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs. Best of REACH NeXT: Parlor.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

So, we created a site which not just aggregates, but also organizes activities by type, category--land, sea, air--and things like competition, family, culture, adrenaline--to really narrow down the possibilities for what you're looking for. We might even engage you and inspire you to do things that you didn't know were possible before.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

Kate Drane, hardware category lead at IndieGoGo joins us and talks about IndieGoGo and crowdfunding. Creating a video alone on an IndieGoGo campaign page increases the money earned by 114% than a campaign page without one. Do you believe in crowdfunding over the traditional ways of investing?

Startup 74

Startup Funding Capital Help 74

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. The video is only 16 minutes long and it is well worth the time. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Their presentation ended in a quick trivia round about science, a category which (of course), the techy audience chose. Leftronic , our final company to present demo’d their impressive data visualization platform that displays information in real time and within browser windows, meaning, no software to download.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

The feedback primarily fell into three categories: better ways to discover new content, better organization tools and the option to have private collections. Initially, our primary differences fall into three categories: discovery, organization and collaboration outlined below and here’s a quick 90-second video that shows Why We’re Different.

Organization 90

Organization Content Tool Blogging 90

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. He turned his accounting software into a product he could see. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2015

The Consolidation culture from 1970-1990 or what we call the Big Box stores had allowed its players to create value players, club stores and category killers. This timing is also perfect for the creation of TV ads for the retailers. This move drove a lot of smaller local merchants away. Online marketing has indeed enhanced how retail works.

Social Media 40

Social Media Search Engine Optimization Startup Media 40