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. And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? I know this category has gotten a lot of press. Mostly, I love writing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted.

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Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment to be hard hitting – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

Social Media 58

Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. Those are all categories we know well. How has your broad social media presence affected your dealflow? It''s the single best.

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Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Pick the right platform for your business.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. According to a Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media at all, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. Focus first on the social media trinity.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 103

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2010

This week, Santa Monica-based ThisNext (www.thisnext.com) said it has raised another round of funding for the firm's social shopping site. Matt Edelman: The last company I ran and co-founded PeopleJam, which was a social media business for people interested in self improvement. How long have you been at the firm now? We've got 3.5

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Newsletter Sites Content Advertising 165

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

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. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Pick the right platform for your business.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Startup Platform 95

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Sometimes I make a blog entry. I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web. I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site.

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Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. According to a Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media at all, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. Focus first on the social media trinity.

Media 92

Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. In fact, new funds have launched there with expertise in the category. invests exclusively in the space.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. I have been blogging for years – even before BothSidesofTheTable. This is classic Fred.

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Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Pick the right platform for your business.

Social Media 93

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. Handling different media formats.

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Press Social Media Startup Training 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. Handling different media formats.

Media 55

Media Social Media Startup Training 55

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Social Media. The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic.To Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. To make sure you maximize the potential for traffic from social media: 1.)

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. We believe that the structural industry changes will continue to create big opportunities for technology firms that enable the changes in media consumption for television, radio, inbound calls, online & social media. Holy Shiitake !

Advertising 352

Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. There is a much better technique. It is to out friend. The Application.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. Handling different media formats.

Training 93

Training Media Entrepreneur Social Media 93

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results. It''s not just coupons and deals, we''ve also launched a blog with helpful shopping information, which helps introduce consumers to new brands they might not have heard of before.

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Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

He says in a blog post ,” We’ve also been hard at work on a mission to reinvent personal email – from the datacenter all the way to the user experience”. Microsoft agrees that traditional email has also failed to be a solution for people’s connections on social media. Social Mail. But Outlook.com is that solution.

Newsletter 71

Newsletter Email Social Network Guide 71

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Fact: social media is among the top most powerful communication tools today. 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 And why is that?

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Snapchat Social Media Social Network Media 82

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's in the automated translation category of the industry. We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 5, 2010

InfluenceSD will recognize and celebrate the most influential members of the San Diego social media community. It is the first and only recognition event in San Diego for the growing social media space. San Diego is home to a very active blogging community and is a great city for the first awards event. Hear that folks?

Media 40

Media San Diego Social Media Southern California 40

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Those are our three biggest categories as far as sponsorship and readership. Obviously, some of this is just about technology--such as search engine optimization--and I think lots of readers are initially finding us through social media and search--but I also think that as the find a channel they are most interested in, they are coming back.

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Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

The feedback primarily fell into three categories: better ways to discover new content, better organization tools and the option to have private collections. We started building LoveIt to refine social discovery and visual curation by changing the way people search for and share images. Any funding yet, if yes how much and by who?

Organization 90

Organization Content Tool Blogging 90

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

Dominate the category (even if you have to create a new one). Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs connect your customers to one another, and you, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Craft a simple message to make that your identity. It’s a lot more fun to be someone you always wanted to be!

Startup 98

Startup Tips Customer Custom 98

socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2009

One of the perpetual themes of the technology news sites and blogs this year has been fairly nonstop coverage of Twitter, the microblogging site. Sean Rad: It is targeted, and an advertiser can find a user based on a variety of parameters, ranging from the category that the publisher is in, and some analysis around their account.

Advertising 189

Advertising Content Startup Social Network 189

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

If you are in this category, first know that you are not alone, but then you need to take a look at the advice given by Patricia Sigmon in her book “ Six Steps to Creating Profit: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Service-Based Businesses.” Maximize cash flow.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2013

Dominate the category (even if you have to create a new one). Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs, connect your customers to one another, and you, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Craft a simple message to make that your identity.

Startup 109

Startup Customer Custom Ideas 109

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Social Media. The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic. Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. Social Media - Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Twitter.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Because of that photography, I started a fashion and music blog, and moved to Los Angeles. By doing so, we are establishing a direct relationship with the customer, creating a social commerce platform, talking directly to those customers, and finding out what they want, and making it for them. Before, I as in Dallas. Why underwear?

Commerce 201

Commerce Startup Design Los Angeles 201