Spotlight: LA Tech SuperDemo Announced! | Mike Jones Former Myspace CEO
We are just over a month out and we’ve been holding off on this announcement for sometime. We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. That’s why we are extremely excited to announce Mike Jones as our SuperDemo! TechZulu will be conducting a fireside chat with Mike and we would love to get a few of our audience questions into the interview. Just let us know in the comments below a question you would want us to ask Mike for you. If you have been living under a rock for the past few years here is a quick bio below on Mike.
Mike Jones is an Internet executive, investor and advisor located in Los Angeles. A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful Internet company in college and since then, has founded, built and sold numerous online and mobile businesses. His experience and expertise in both large and small companies focuses on strategy, growth, and operational efficiency resulting in many successful investor outcomes.
Most recently Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with Myspace China and Myspace Japan. During his tenure, he was responsible for the relaunch of Myspace, one of the most high-profile turn-around challenges in the industry. This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination.
Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member. He has contributed to the success of dozens of companies, including the funding and strategic acquisitions of Movoxx, Tsavo and People Media.
Now, for all you startups and companies releasing new products, you still have a chance to shine in the Spotlight. We invite you to Apply Here and let us know all about your company and what you would like to put in the Spotlight. join us in proving there’s more than one place in California to create great technology. If you’d like to present, APPLY HERE. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of October 16th, 2011.
The event will take place Thursday, October 27, at 6pm. You’ll have 5 minutes of presentation time and 3 minutes of Q&A.
Please join TechZulu as well as Los Angeles tech savvy elite comprised of VC’s, Angels investors, startups and your fellow entrepreneurs, as we celebrate LA’s most exciting tech creations of the moment with the brightest digital minds and engineering talents this side of Fresno. For those who would like to be in attendance we have a limited amount of super early bird special tickets available at just $15. Every ticket includes FREE appetizer and cocktail reception after the event for you all to mix and mingle. They will sell out quick so grab them while you can.
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The Coloft is a space for entrepreneurs, independents, startups, programmers, designers, professionals, and awesome people in general. Because putting all of us together results in amazing things –together we are even more brilliant than we are alone.
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- To explore how new technologies impact society.
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