Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

One of the original classics, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms.

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JULY 23, 2012

Los Angeles startup accelerator StartEngine has launched its third class, a new batch of fourteen startups which have set up shop in the incubator's Westwood Village space under the watchful eyes of Activision co-founder Howard Marks and investor Paul Kessler. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Los Angeles-based Siemer Ventures , the venture capital arm of investment bank Siemer & Associates, has been one of the most active local investors lately--and is continuing that trend, with the investment in Ribbon. Members can see our full profile of Siemer's investment activity in our database. in a seed funding round.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

Los Angeles-based GameFly , the online video game rental subscription service, said this morning that it has connected its online social network for gamers with its GameFly App for Android. The updated app is available on the Android Market. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Rexter''s software--which runs across mobile platforms, tablets, and PCs--helps consolidate and manage their contacts from across social networking sites and email, and helps users manage those contacts and activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

Where are the young social media users going? TikTok is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups. Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products.

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AUGUST 30, 2012

Mefeedia's site lets user figure out what videos are popular with people, based on social networking activity; the firm also offers up a platform aimed at video producers, TV networks, and other content providers to deliver video applications for iPhone, iPad, Android Phones, Android Tablets, and Kindle Fire.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Will all that activity help create the next big technology, advertising, gaming, or e-commerce startup? Much of the focus is on absorbing that energy, the enthusiasm of the startup community here has created over the last few years. It's unclear.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In contrast, social networking sites drove a record number of clicks, up 20% over the prior year. Clearly there is a shift occurring in users'' behavior, as social networks continue to hone their product discovery and purchase capabilities. Google is great at search, yet their G+ social network wasn’t the most successful.

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JULY 7, 2011

With the proliferation of social networks, communications clients and VoIP phone services, users often find they need to use multiple ways--Twitter, Facebook, phone, FAX, and more--to communicate with their contacts. You either need to rent space on someone else's telephony platform, or have your own. It's pretty comprehensive.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

Together the two worked to create a social network that would combine political engagement and social activities to develop communities built around shared ideologies and purpose. Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections for Democrats.

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MAY 10, 2013

Four years ago, Los Angeles-based Adly (www.adly.com) launched to much fanfare as one of the first local startups to tie into the brand-new, Twitter micro messaging platform. We''re the leading social advertising platform that leverages celebrity relationships. What is Ad.ly''s business now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

Data storage, hardware, and networking equipment are provided to the customer on a per-use basis by the IaaS vendor, who holds the equipment and is responsible for running, and maintaining it. Platform as a Service (PaaS). Social Media. The challenge for most businesses is determining how to best harness the potential.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

That raises the question of whether Tencent can replicate its success in overseas markets where its social apps are largely absent. But TiMi contended that these platforms are not essential to a game’s success. WeChat launched its long-awaited paywall for articles published on its platform . That’s finally changing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

One of the original classics, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms.

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JULY 19, 2016

Roni Eschel: It's a market network for outdoor sports, a social network for connecting like minded people, sharing conditions and moments in real time, and helping to find the best spots for your favorite sports, like surfing, paddleboard, kite surfing, and so on. Roni Eschel: We are building out the social network now.

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JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks. It was the same issue.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2013

a crowd-powered platform that gives accredited investors access to exclusive deal flow and technology transfer opportunities has launched in beta its crowd-powered portal for startups, JumpStartFund. Social network for investors. El Segundo, CA based JumpStarter Inc.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? For the new platforms and all the rest, that’s where tracking and testing comes in.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Momentum Ventures is a firm which has been very active providing management expertise in Southern California, helping promising technology firms. We built a platform to manage multiple verticals, the first around nutrition and weight loss. But, the concept is that we can take the same platform, and extend it to other areas.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals. Volume has no doubt picked up at active firms. The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Seems an obvious fit.

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MAY 30, 2019

Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. We could still deliver applicants and deliver passive job seekers to a company, but we could also delivery applicants that already understood what the cultur of the company was, and be able to measure the kind of footprint people were making on a social network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Where are the young social media users going? Snapchat is currently the fastest growing social network, while Instagram is close behind with a bigger share globally of new sign-ups. Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products.

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MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful.

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JUNE 21, 2011

However, I was shocked, because not only were the CRM systems on the marketplace not leveraging social, but those CRM systems did not even get what relationships are all about. You build relationships with communications and activity. What it did uniquely, is it also integrated contacts and communications--all in single platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

In a classic one I read a while back, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media may be low on your list.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

One of the classics, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

There are things like the NCAA, which has not been showing up in fantasy because there was lack of a platform to allow that. We built a social network around that, with activity feeds and stuff like that, and which allows you to share activity through the leagues, Twitter, and Facebook.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2014

ON is like a smorgasbord of the best features from other social media platforms and combines it into one experience that could change the way we meet new people. What ON does differently is take the best parts of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Tinder and roll into one social media platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

One I read a while back, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

Based on a survey just last year by Robert Half Technology , over half of today’s companies block social networks completely, while another 19 percent only permit it "for business purposes." Social networks have become a great vector for Trojans like Zeus and URLZone. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. And so it goes with social networking.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

Sean Rad: I started another company called Orgoo, which was a unified communications platform. Given that notion, I think that there needs to be a platform that helps serves ads in a format that is appropriate for the stream. We do view Twitter as a social network, but also as a content broadcasting platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? Too many executives believe that things must be either A or B, and can’t be both.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Does the site need to throttle potential malicious activity? Is there a step-by-step wizard?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

I think people are often confused, because although there are very few, large scale Fortune 1000 companies, there is an enormous economy here fueled by entrepreneurial activity. Could you explain to our readers what about what Network Automation does? We can deliver a very functional, automation platform for less than $2000.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 The Emojli social network will feature only Emojis.

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