Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Fact: social media is among the top most powerful communication tools today. Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). Seed funds now represent 67% of all funds being created now, which is up 100% from 6 years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

04% full, you should start looking for a new container. Where are the young social media users going? They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most are sitting on large portfolios of private companies that are raising money now or will need to do so in the future and they know that they’re up against some headwinds. The Motive for Speaking Up. ” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” So prices start dropping.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

On your birthday, something special happens on social media: you receive hundreds of likes and well wishes from friends, family, high school classmates and people you haven’t talked to for years on Facebook. And while this has been the standard for years, one startup is hoping to personalize the birthday wishes even more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

04% full, you should start looking for a new container. Where are the young social media users going? They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Snapchat. Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

The hardest thing about starting a company is that from day one you emerge as this completely vulnerable entity trying its hardest to project success, power, trajectory and inevitability while you secretly know that you’re one knock-out blow from extinction. In a word – you are truly vulnerable. It’s a Hobbesian calculation.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

We have a couple of thousand retailers and a product catalog of 80 million products, and every day, people are posting their photos and videos to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter. That's where I first started getting the idea to create what is now Indi. Retailers will pay them for those recommendations.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2013

What''s one of the hottest, fastest growing mobile apps out there out of a Southern California startup? No, not Snapchat--it''s Tinder --a mobile app and service which lets users rate people nearby them, and if the feeling is mutual, connect them. Justin Mateen: The vision for Tinder, is about social discovery.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2017

According to the EY Global IPO Trends: Q2 2017 report, there has been "brisk" IPO activity globally, in what the report says is "one of its strongest starts in nearly a decade." A notable number of those IPOs were fro Southern California, including the big IPO of Snap Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2014

What ON does differently is take the best parts of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Tinder and roll into one social media platform. It takes a page from both Instagram and Snapchat when taking a photo and with the options of drawing, adding filters and captions to a picture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

04% full, you should start looking for a new container. Where are the young social media users going? They are going to Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, Kik, and other applications. By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. Time to start connecting them with each other.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. Gripe worked well as a social service, but it just didn't work as a business. So, that didn't scale well.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. Gripe worked well as a social service, but it just didn't work as a business. So, that didn't scale well.

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Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Facebook opens up Instant Articles to all publishers. Facebook started with the biggest publishers in the game: BuzzFeed , Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post. Stats… After Gawker properties live on Facebook Instant Articles, US UVs up to 4.7m, from earlier norm of 4m. pic.twitter.com/TB1GTGt9ss.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And I’ll tell you why, starting with where you started and why you succeeded. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. Users could set up their phone to tweet from it; send an SMS txt and the tweet would appear on your profile. All these things set Twitter up for enormous user growth.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2019

The company unveiled a series of new strategies that are aimed at breathing fresh life into the service which has been ruthlessly cloned by Facebook across Instagram, WhatsApp, and even its primary social network. The result? Snap has consistently lost users since going public in 2017.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Betaworks is betting on the content studio aspect through companies like SuperPlastic , a new startup launched by Paul Budnitz, the founder of the alternative social network ello and Budnitz Bicycles. “We started doing cartoon live streams and the founders of Musical.ly Lil Miquela and fellow brud avatar Blawko22.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in. Others are skeptical, “Ha!

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