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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies?

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

socalTECH

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. So, that didn't scale well. That was between 2010 and 2012.

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music's To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

socalTECH

Farhad Mohit: As you know, Bizrate spawned Shopzilla, which took us from 2000 to 2005. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. So, that didn't scale well. That was between 2010 and 2012.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet.