Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2020

Although there is still a place for display advertising in this new world, increasingly small businesses are discovering that creating buzz and engaging their audiences through social media are more powerful and cost effective. That’s an expensive proposition for small companies. The old “seven impression” model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Customer expectations of a relationship and personalization are stretching every business today, and pervasive use and confidence in social media by customers can override all your image building and marketing messages. Supplement this feedback with more formal modern satisfaction surveys, like the Net Promoter Score.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500M users into a $53B public company, and now growing revenue. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Social Media User's Bill of Rights. Net Neutrality Dies. Pre-Crime Data Mining Company Social Intelligence. Pre-Crime Data Mining Company Social Intelligence. Guest: Denise Grayson of "The Social Network". . Facebook Private Groups. TechCrunch Sale to AOL: [link] news/ci_16195749?source=rss&

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500M users into a $35B public company, and now growing revenue. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2017

announced its quarterly results for its second quarter, saying that it had a net loss of $443.0M The company's revenues increased from Q2 of 2016, when it had $71.798M in revenues. Venice-based Snap Inc. on revenues of $181.67M for the quarter ended June 30th, 2017. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JULY 25, 2013

Although there is still a place for display advertising in this new world, increasingly small businesses are discovering that creating buzz and engaging their audiences through social media are more powerful and cost effective. That’s an expensive proposition for small companies. Ask for endorsements when appropriate.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

the parent company of Snapchat , has set its estimated initial IPO pricing, saying this morning in a filing that it estimates its initial public offering price at betwen $14.00 Snap said it is planning to sell as many as 230,000,000 shares of its stock, which would net it around $3.68 Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , and $16.00

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Or perhaps in the case of 2017, with its litany of data security breaches, social media manipulations, and allegations of sexual harassment, to just wring out the old. Tony Anscombe is a global security evangelist for Eset, an IT security company based in Bratislava, Slovakia, (its North American headquarters is in San.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Shap continues to lose money, hand over first, reporting it had a net loss of $443.1M SNAP CEO Evan Spiegel said on Tuesday the company is planning a big redesign of its Snapchat app, to broaden appeal of its app to new users. SNAP was already down around 12 percent in pre-market trading on Wednesday, falling from a close of $15.12

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In this age of instant and global communication via social media and the Internet, I see more and more evidence that delighted customers should be your top priority. A popular set of metrics for customer views is the New Promoter System ( NPS ), available from Bain & Company. Regularly invent new ways to delight customers.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

s data privacy regulator fined Facebook $645,000 for violations that allowed political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica and other outside companies to extract 87 million Facebook profiles worldwide without adequate user knowledge or consent. The company’s net income in the second quarter alone was more than $5 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2015

The advent of social media and real-time interactive feedback via the Internet allows every customer to build and expect a relationship with your business, rather than just touchpoints. One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). Remember the old adage, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

The advent of social media and real-time interactive feedback via the Internet allows every customer to build and expect a relationship with your business, rather than just touchpoints. One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). Remember the old adage, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Most existing metrics and analytics for measuring customer satisfaction and loyalty, including the popular Net Promoter Score (NPS), don’t distinguish between recommend messages to others (word-of-mouth), detract messages, or no message. How much do you really know about the customer experience with your company? Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

We talked about how the metaphor for finding information might be changing and why large companies such as HP and Microsoft are betting so big on this industry. And I made the prediction that within the next 2 years RIM (the parent company of Blackberry) will not be independent. Yes, that’s right. The race is on!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2014

The advent of social media and real-time interactive feedback via the Internet allows every customer to build and expect a relationship with your business, rather than just touchpoints. One new metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). So how do you measure customer loyalty and relationships? Detractors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500 million users into a $22 billion public company, now growing revenue. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50 percent and a net margin in the 20 percent range.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

After 4 years of retail she went to “the other side of the business&# working for a clothing brand where she sold apparel to department stores and other companies. “There are so many places you can go on the Net where you can find your community. This is where she first developed sales skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500M users into a $22B public company, now growing revenue. It’s only been in the last ten years that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars, while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Thus, entrepreneurs must decide when to stop listening to the Sirens’ song of a quick buck and position their company to take advantage of long-term, sustainable business models. They knew that price restructuring would significantly impair their gross revenues as well as their net income, which would dramatically impact their stock price.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Two hundred and fifty thousand would have netted my firm more than one billion dollars. It is far more detrimental to one’s returns to make investments in companies which fail to return capital. It is far more detrimental to one’s returns to make investments in companies which fail to return capital. The Billion Dollar Email.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. And as a result we have bred a culture of companies that have been quite innovative on making money. company called Applied Semantics.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

CircleUp is an online social marketplace that supports direct equity investments from individual investors to small private consumer and retail companies. We’re all so caught up in social media marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) that we tend to forget one on one relationships are the most powerful of them all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term is used to describe non-traditional ways to incent growth such as social-media and viral marketing. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. In between practicing, I actually started and ran my own social network, TripUp, which was later acquired by Sidestep, which is now Kayak.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

A huge thanks goes out to the Social Media ClubHouse (SMCH3) for helping put this all together. AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin!

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

The transaction is considered the largest public acquisition in Bitcoin history with both companies exhibiting impressive growth numbers since their respective beginnings. What is it Like to Raise Money for Bitcoin Companies? They aim to push 100 companies through their doors in the next three years with ~$50k seed investments.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2017

We’ve just passed a year full of news about the role of technology companies in U.S. Speculation is rampant about a possible sea change in consumer attitudes toward the tech industry and its products—a shift that might affect sales, the regulatory environment, and other factors important to companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A few sponsorship spots still available for early 2010 events: TechZulu still has a few slots open for our early 2010 events for our large diverse audience — social media users, venture capitalist, PR people, developers, bloggers, Hollywood entertainment and many more. You’ll receive recognition as a thank you for your sponsorship.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. was the “static&# web.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

NOT because the founder of the company has an established credibility working for both Facebook and MINT when those companies were in infancy. I am a raving fan of AppSumo because the creator of the brand, Noah Kagan , leads his company focusing on community first and sales second. I am a raving fan of AppSumo.com. I resisted.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Earlier in his career, O’Neil honed his sales and marketing expertise with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, where he became vice president of sales, and the New Jersey Nets, where he began his career as a marketing assistant. He brings to ScoreBig.com the much needed expertise for marketing and growth.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

At the conference, we will explore how companies are using these technologies today, and should be using them tomorrow, for significant bottom line impact in areas like marketing, corporate information management, publishing, customer service, and personal productivity. . Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0

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