Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. million monthly active users who are creating more than 32 million text messages per day! This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. If your business doesn’t connect with your customers, individually and as a community, demanding customers will not only ignore you, but will actively keep other customers away.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. So, what we do, is bring all of that data together into a unified, comprehensive solution, so they can manage all of that activity and data in one place.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Some of the standout technology innovators include: ClippPR : ClippPR provides businesses with a simple way to track any type of online activity — press releases, videos, blog mentions, etc. Hachi : Hachi puts the “networking” back in social networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

Contrary to what most of you might guess, the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity over the last few years is not Gen-Y young upstarts, but Baby Boomers in the 55-64 year age group. In every single year from 1996 to 2010, Boomers between the ages of 55 and 64 had a higher rate of entrepreneurial activity than Gen-Y, aged 20–34.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 This is the same with competing activity streams in various social networks.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Venture Bonsai enters the increasingly active market of enabling new methods to fund startups. 17, 2009 and before Jan. What truth?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In 2009, when the platform was just under three years old, Nielsen put out a report stating that Twitter had grown 1,382% year-over-year. My agency, VaynerMedia , used it heavily as a community management tool in 2009 and 2010. I remained active. It’s a powerful tool for social utility and a great social network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

billion to work across 731 financing deals with US startups, a 50% increase over Q1 2009. Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active. In fact, nine of the ten most active investment firms are located there (with one in Boston). First of all, investors put $5.9

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dec 26, 2009). Video From Business Of Software 2009: Building Great Software Businesses - OnStartups , August 23, 2010 Of the several conferences I attend or speak each at each year, my favorite is the Business of Software conference organized be Neil Davidson (of Red Gate ) and Joel Spolsky (of Fog Creek ). Why do startups?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

But I promise you nobody I know is actively enjoying the correction in the way that some entrepreneurs seem to think VCs are. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. Right now it’s more pain than gain. In short – no.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Social Networks and Citizen Commerce: Reinventing Ecommerce. As a leader in social commerce, we strive to stay ahead of what’s happening right now. Case Study marketing, Online community, Social Networking. . .

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. The people left standing had a compelling vision to build companies and we backed many in 2009. When this period was fresh, in Sept 2009, I wrote a very detailed assessment of what I thought had just happened.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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