2011 Course Entrepreneur Social Media 
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 16, 2011
Of course, you’re going to have to perform well to make that stock useful in the acquisitions process. At any rate, it seems only appropriate that social media sites, which have dominated the Internet over the past few years, will likely lead startups back into the IPO game. Do you need the IPO for your acquisitions strategy?
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2013
is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 14, 2014
The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. Of course unsolicited spam has very low open rates and is filtered by the major providers.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 25, 2011
For the latest info, Gartner recently released their Hype Cycle Special Report for 2011 , detailing some of the biggest trends in technology this year. While, in the field of social media, social monitoring and activity streams as well as shopping communities, have moved into the Peak of Inflated Expectations.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 3, 2012
These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The number of Baby Boomers starting a business from 1996 to 2011 rose nearly 7 percent, while the start-up rate by those aged 20 to 44 fell about 5 percent. They are becoming the new early adopters.
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 26, 2012
Gabi is personal, cross-cultural, and ‘gab’ means, course, casual, endless way of talking. Of course we were thinking also on the expression “gift of the gab(i)” How long have you been working on Gabi? We started thinking about new ways of interacting with social networks in November 2011. Of course not.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.
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