Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2010

We've dug through our database of high tech companies, web sites, and startups and found four Southern California companies and web sites looking to cater to that adventure traveler in you. . The allows travelers to find travel buddies, meet others, share travel reviews, photos, and more. . Adventurelink [ Profile ]. Trails.com.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A lot of focus has been given on how much search algorithm changes at Google have impacted the fortunes, and traffic, of Los Angeles-based Demand Media. with Savings.com one of the top five sites seeing a huge loss in "SEO Visibility" due to the recent changes. Savings.com operates an online coupon and deals site.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. To say that the tech elite were cynical of Hulu’s launch would be an understatement , but by the time it launched just a few months later it was getting great reviews.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the open data startup headed by Gil Elbaz, the inventor of Google's AdSense technology, said today that it has launched a new open set of data that the firm says provides geo-coded data for 14 million local U.S. businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. Don’t dumb it down for social media. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 27, 2014

Entrepreneurs are often drawn to celebrities, as they believe their startup will benefit from the celeb''s ability to garner media attention, which they hope will result in incremental revenue. Steer clear of high-overhead investors, whether they be Hollywood celebrities, high-profile tech investors or total nobodies. Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally. The ingredients are all here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

New entrepreneurs, especially technical ones, are excited by early adopters, and tend to focus on their feedback, which will always suggest more product features and options. Ongoing momentum requires a move to mainstream, or even late adopters, who demand simplicity in your base function. Focus on the mainstream customer majority.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. Technology and innovation has historically been the thing that has pulled the economy out of recessions, and I think that is especially true right now. For OCTANe to be successful, we want to see our technology ecosystem grow.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Value is created through diligent hard work. Once you prove that a substantial number of people are willing to pay more for your solution than it costs you to provide it, you can then consider licensing your underlying technology. Commercializing an idea involves defining and validating an economically viable value proposition.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 63

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We also have a partnership with Trion Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

socalTECH

JULY 2, 2015

Los Angeles-based VUBIQUITY , a provider of content monetization technology and services for the entertainment and media industry, has teamed up with movie and TV service Rotten Tomatoes , the two said yesterday. Rotten Tomatoes provides ratings and reviews of movies and television shows. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Entertainment Demand Content 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This distrust for the scripted message has led to a new demand for unfiltered marketing, and the emergence of business credibility heroes, like Elon Musk, with his bold statements about space travel, and sometime villains, such as Mark Zuckerberg defending Facebook privacy practices. They want the raw data versus a polished message.

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Customer Custom Social Media Technical Review 173

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Infusing technology within the customer experience. Marty Zwilling.

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Services Social Media Technical Review Media 128

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I want to know how many people, their level of tech sophistication, their age and their interests. And if we’re reflective, it’s also one of the most important success criteria for investors, senior executives, tech writers and virtually anybody involved in business leadership. So I thought I would. That’s a shame.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. But it wasn’t to be.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2020

But there is no magic formula on how to bring these together a second time, but I did see some good insights on the parameters in a classic startup business parable, “ Endless Encores ,” by Ken Goldstein, who advises startups and has built companies in technology, entertainment, media, and e-commerce.

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Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Ideas 129

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term.

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Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Back by popular demand, live website reviews to help you learn how the top-ranked website "STARS" earn the highest natural ranking in search. Learn how to improve rankings in the search engines using social media, link building strategies, keyword selection, paid search and more. Techbizconnection. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Symantec 137

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. Don’t dumb it down for social media.

Marketing 141

Marketing Startup Social Media Technical Review 141

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

round changes things for us, and will let us invest in infrastructure, build our team, invest in media, and also invest in technology to better leverage our spend on media. However, our users and target audience are really the younger, web-savvy, college educated, and very technologically comfortable consumers.

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Services Technical Review Startup Pricing 215

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2022

It started with an email survey on your last stay at their hotel, but now includes requests for online product reviews, to social media input on the design of future products. Some say it’s happening today because it’s new, and technology makes it possible. They do it because engaged customers become loyal advocates and buyers.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Social Media 107

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. As I like to tell people who ask about Bird, “consumers have literally voted with their feet.” Is Bird really defensible?

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies. The post What Is xAI?

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Generative AI Technical Review 106

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We give a huge Thank You to the following sponsors: Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK.

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Technical Review Software Review Santa Monica Tech Coast Angels 58

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? RunwayML Runway is an applied AI tool artists can use to create AI-generated media, like video, audio and text. And with direct traffic making up 71% of Caledly’s total traffic, demand for the scheduling tool is likely to remain strong into 2024.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2019

It started with an email survey on your last stay at their hotel, but now includes requests for online product reviews, to social media input on the design of future products. Some say it’s happening today because it’s new, and technology makes it possible. They do it because engaged customers become loyal advocates and buyers.

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Startup Technical Review Social Media Marketing 98

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Infusing technology within the customer experience. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 98

Social Media Technical Review Media Services 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2014

It started with an email survey on your last stay at their hotel, but now includes requests for online product reviews, to social media input on the design of future products. Some say it’s happening today because it’s new, and technology makes it possible. They do it because engaged customers become loyal advocates and buyers.

Marketing 95

Marketing Technical Review Social Media Startup 95

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2012

It started with an email survey on your last stay at their hotel, but now includes requests for online product reviews, to social media input on the design of future products. Some say it’s happening today because it’s new, and technology makes it possible. They do it because engaged customers become loyal advocates and buyers.

Customer 95

Customer Custom Marketing Technical Review 95

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

But there is no magic formula on how to bring these together a second time, but I did see some good insights on the parameters in a new startup business parable, “ Endless Encores ,” by Ken Goldstein, who advises startups and has built corporations in technology, entertainment, media, and e-commerce.

Startup 106

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Ideas 106

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Help us understand your technology--is this focused on the automated language translation technology, or on the process of localizing a web site? In addition to that, we provide the ability of customers to review that with analytics. There's lots of media and blogs in Southern California, who could use it as well.

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