SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2007

I've somewhat fallen off the map on this blog. One of my recent fun experiences was doing a presentation at Harvard Business School (HBS) on the implications of Web 2.0 type tools (Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, RSS, RSS Readers) on corporate learning and someone like HBS. Really fun stuff these days.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Optimize your web history and presence. Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building. Who are you fooling by not allowing your startup to be found?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Seed viral activity. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Contributing to industry blogs, or starting your own, is an ideal way to express your positive values, and build a reputation that can save you later if your product stumbles, or you receive some negative challenges. There are dozens of tools available to help you monitor relevant activity, including Social Mention and Google Alerts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Optimize your web history and presence. Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building. Who are you fooling by not allowing your startup to be found?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And measuring activities or output can mislead you into thinking you’re doing a great job. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2021

It works best through effective use of social media, mobile apps, societal initiatives, becoming an influencer, and providing a modern easily-found web site with credible customer-focused content. If you are not yet using this channel natively, your brand will be lost from view to key constituents.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2017

The deceleration followed a strong start to venture activity during the first half of 2016, but was chalked up as a “return to normalization” in the Venture Monitor report released by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Great by Cliff Allen Business Networking Online who I had blogged about previously in Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Then, face-to-face meetings and activities become much more valuable. And, since he's using a public blog anyone can join the conversation. Cliff create a great image for the group.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

San Diego startup Cuida Health, a recent graduate of the Connect Springboard accelerator program, this week launched its first product: a voice-activated “social wellness” app for seniors. The mobile app lets seniors stay in touch with others and to search for information on the Web regardless of their technical ability, dexterity or.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Seed viral activity. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2018

In China, 2017 was the year of the rooster. But in the United States, it was the year of the unicorn—at least according to the Venture Monitor report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. venture funding to a total of $84.2

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Scans the web for a kid’s activity in realtime and sends alerts. -Co-Founders

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

More important than a business plan may be early networking, a web site and blog, and building relationships with key industry experts. You need to be confident that you can withstand the mental and emotional stress, find time for the family, and find a balance of non-work social and physical activities.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 4, 2014

It’s the New Year, and there’s no better time to get educated on all the blogging, podcasting and Web video tools to help you become an active content creator. Likewise, if you’re looking to learn how to market through online channels for your business, this is also for you.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. They didn't buy it because of the financial content, they did it for the web video expertise. You're quite an active investor, as well - are you still making investments?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. It''s really a combination of the two.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2015

Actively contribute to common business and personal profile sites. Occasional engagement and visibility in forum discussions and industry activities establishes positive content to offset the random negative comment that every passionate entrepreneur is sure to generate. Add new blog content to your site on a regular basis.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 12, 2009

This past week has had an interesting confluence of events that's led me to conclude that I want to start doing a lot of visible networking among the tech / web crowd here in Los Angeles. I really enjoy his blog and I can't wait to mix it up with him some more on the value of Hollywood money / connections. And I'll post about it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

That business includes our main registrar platform, which supports 20,000 resellers around the world, and also includes such acquisition as we''ve done such as name.com, domain auctions with Namejet, and a bunch of other activities. The app store is crowded, and the web is also crowded too.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2018

Sunnyvale, CA-based CrowdStrike, as an endpoint protection and response platform, uses next-generation antivirus software, scans for behavioral indicators of malicious activity, and deploys other threat detection measures to prevent cyberattacks and mitigate harms when they occur. CrowdStrike’s Series E financing round was led by General.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. New companies are being created at stunning speed by today’s founders. If you can’t keep up, you are dead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Add a blog to give yourself a voice, show your expertise, but skip the sales pitch. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). You need executive buy-in, committed budgets, and education for the whole team on objectives and activities.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Since the advent of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, we’ve seen such networks proliferate, from the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (remember The WELL?) Nowadays, Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world , with more than 2 billion monthly active users.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Next Generation Online Marketing Strategies, a new guide to Web 2.0 He is a former Southern California high tech executive, and recently penned this post on his blog, which he gave us permission to reprint here. Synchronicity - NOT: Twitter can only be used to communicate with people who are also on and active at the same time.

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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 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Martin Rushe, the CEO and founder of Selz wrote a blog post announcing the deal. Amazon was only able to garner several hundred active users at the time — significantly less than its competitors. A good alternative to BigCommerce with better web design. We also don't know exactly how much Amazon paid for Selz.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

But he also says that it wasn’t a negative regarding M&A activities with competitors – this is sometimes seen as one of the pitfalls of strategic money. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. Chris runs a popular web interview series on TechCrunch so is used to being the guy asking the questions. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 20, 2013

Katherine Kuan, Software Engineer at Google in a blog post said, “Every day we all see, hear or think of things we need to remember. The archives can be accessed on an Android phone or tablet with an active widget on the screen on the screen. Ice Cream Sandwich) and will be accessible directly on the web via Google Drive soon.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Web application performance is a broad discipline. Todd Hoff’s comprehensive 2009 blog entry on the costs of latency in web applications is still relevant today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

If you refuse to play by their rules, they have the power to easily find alternatives, and actively pull other potential customers away. I still see too many websites that look like they have had no updates or blogs in months or even years. Blogs must provide value to customers.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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