Toby Morning

I am a Start Up addict living in the northern California. I am a web designer as well as an internet consultant who can be hired on an hourly basis through my firm, Blue Monitor.

I have deep "hands on" vertical experience in media, technology, and angel investing.

I have worked on projects in digital rights management for media, consumer electronics, and retail.

In 1995 I founded a music distribution company, I was the first west coast distributor for Rawkus Records in 1997, and was the first vinyl distributor to sell battle tools, and music to Pro Sound Stage and Lighting, the largest DJ catalog service in the US.

In 1998 I founded the DJ Union in Santa Cruz, in 1999 I joined Destiny Media Technologies. In 2002 I started and sold a small wireless ISP in LA, in 2003 I started a BPO company from India named Blue Monitor.

In 2005 I Co -Founded a software company which has developed a web services platform for company to quickly, and cost effectively built application around digital media.

I have been an investor in set top box makers, clothing company's, Raves, and Hip Hop concerts in my younger years.

Currently I am working on a Co-Working space for "Media Centric" starts ups in downtown San Jose in the broadband corridor (access to affordable broadband is essential), and working with lots of start ups in Africa and India.

Toby Morning’s Specialties:

Branding and Identity, Graphic Design, Web Design, Web Development, Airbrushing, Water Colors, Aerosol Art Curator (Spray Paint), Network Administrator, System Administrator, Streaming Media Speacialist, DRM, Web Services and SOA, SAAS business models, and business development.

Toby Morning’s Experience

Co-Founder

Semantic Seed

(Non-Profit; Civic & Social Organization industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Semantic Seed is a venture accelerator/ incubator/CO-Working space operating as a non profit in the heart of Silicon Valley. A place for "Start Up's to Grow". Semantic Seed's Blog is a resource for start ups and investors in Silicon Valley, India, and Africa.
Founder

Hipmode.com

(Music industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

The first company based in Africa with a focus on the creation of original digital media experiences for the 80 Million mobile users on the African continent.

Hipmode.com is focused on offering users in Africa the best internet radio, games, and social networking.
CTO

Urban Network Magazine

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2003 — Present (6 years)
Founder/Chairman

IP Network Systems

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2003 — Present (6 years)

IP Network Systems offers a wide variety of digital media-related services. Among these services are several packaged solutions, including: Digital Dailies (Review and Approve), Digital Asset Management, and Digital Rights Management. IP Network Systems provides streaming media services with the IP Network Systems, which is designed to deliver high quality content delivery services in the most cost efficient manner.
Founder

Blue Monitor Systems, India

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)

4th Generation Offshore Outsourcing provides seamless integration between the customer and Blue Monitor. We go far beyond the established onsite/offshore model by offering in-depth local consulting presence; onsite teams focused on the customer's business applications, and the management depth those partners closely with our clients.
Founder

Freeprojectmanager.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2002 — Present (6 years 9 months)

Freeprojectmanager.com Provides web-enabled end-to-end solutions for project-based businesses.

We offer a free Hosted ASP service for small to medium enterprise clients with a single to 100 users. For larger enterprise customers who need 100+ user seats, we offer a managed dedicated server. Reseller and OEM licenses are also available for hosting company's, and ISP's.
Founder/CEO

Urban Technology Ventures LLC

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1999 — Present (10 years)

My job is Identifying and unveiling the hidden potential of a company. Toby Morning leads a group of investors in seed, early and expansion stage minority and women owned ventures.
Founder

DJ Union Networks

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Entertainment industry)

August 1998 — Present (11 years)

DJ Union was founded in 1998 to fill the void of the DJ not having any Unionized representation. The DJ Union was a pivital part of the US DJ community being elevated from a passive career choice to one of Super Stardom. The DJ Union partner with the Chaotica Agency in 1998 in Hollywood California, and began to build a massive DJ oriented business. The company's investor was the family who owned the tallest building in Hollywood, and helped establish the start up by offering capital, and free rent in thir building. By 2001 DJ Union LLC had grown from a start with no revenues to a business doing over 1 Million a year distributing DJ products, booking world famous DJ's and Acts like The Chemical Brothers, ICP, Kool Keith, Sky Cries Mary, DJ Qbert, and many more.
Contributing Writer

Blackweb20.com

(Publishing industry)

January 2008 — December 2008 (1 year)

Black Web 2.0 addresses emerging web trends and how they apply to web properties that target African-Americans or African-American culture. There has been a recent surge of websites that target this demographic, some of which were existing and redesigned to take advantage of new web 2.0 technologies while others are start-ups. In addition to website and application launches we will be covering relevant Internet industry news as well as mainstream Internet industry news from an African-American perspective. Here is a summary of some of the editorial content we plan to discuss:

Topics
Social Networking
Emerging Trends
Development
Strategy
Design/Redesign
Digital Media
Web Content

Regular Features
“Launched”
Reviews on Websites and Web Applications.

“5 On It”
A short 5 question interview from individuals in the Internet industry.

“The Black Web 2.0 Show”
Monthly podcast from key players in the Internet industry.
Director of Market Innovation & Expansion

Accton Technology Corporation

(Public Company; Computer Networking industry)

April 2007 — December 2007 (9 months)

I was the director of the MIE group of Accton, a $450 Million USD a year network equipment manufacturer from Taiwan. We manufacturer Enterprise, and consumer products, and SMC Networks is a wholly owned subsidary. This is a new business unit with a focus on marketing, and product development for new and emerging markets. We are also the team responsibile for implementing new "Zero Time" business pratices across the enterprise.
Consultant to the Chairman

DAVE NETWORKS

(Broadcast Media industry)

October 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 4 months)

I was a consultant for the Founder, and past CEO of DAVE TV,Ken Lipscomb, in Atlanta,Ga.in regards to financing, and business development. Help the company raise seed capital, and also helped with offshore development. DAVE Networks has such notable customers as Freemantle, and MGM Studios.
CEO

T-Digital

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Music industry)

March 2005 — January 2006 (11 months)

I am the CEO of a division of Thump Records name T-Digital.The company is a successful independent label which is exclusively distributed through Universal Music Distribution.
VP Business Development US

Destiny Media Technologies

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; DSNY; Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years)

I opened and maintained the Destiny office in Hollywood, California from Dec 1999 Til Aug 2001, and was responsible for Business Development in the US.

While with Destiny I worked closely with Steve, the Founder and our development team to create the MPE DRM system, now used by every major and most of the indy record labels in the US to move promos from the label facility to the station PD electronically, and securely.

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Back in Los Angeles working on the T-Digital project. Should be live by mid December. If you want to advertise, add your content into the store to sell, or other strategic partnerships with T-Digital, please email me!