Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2023

The pervasiveness of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “open leadership.” This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

The pervasiveness of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “open leadership.” This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions.

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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. I also serve as CEO of a small media companies that profile “Tomorrow’s Most Exciting People Today”. I help internet companies make money. I usually.just focus on revenue.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

I’ve posted three people’s examples to the left. While you’re at it put in a link (if you don’t blog or want to link to your company at least link to your LinkedIn or Facebook profile). Tags: Social Media social networking Twitter. Be patient – it will appear. Anything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The pervasiveness of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “open leadership.” This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions.

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MARCH 15, 2014

” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. If you want to see that discussion it is here and its especially fun because we also debated Google Groups, which went on (after the interview) to buy Dmitry’s company so he now works there.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. The top line is available storage (S), the middle line represents processing power (following Moore’s law) or (P) and the bottom line is the Network (N). This blog post lays out my case. Social networking is peaking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” According to a study of 1700 CEOs last year, only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The pervasiveness of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions.

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JANUARY 23, 2011

But some CEOs then try to have more junior people in the company take the interview. Heck, even in a big, successful company like Salesforce.com the CEO, Marc Benioff, still takes many of the interviews himself. You need somebody who is helping push out information on what is up-and-coming in the company. Always more appealing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In his quest to better connect with new friends, Alex Capecelatro had a problem: none of the existing social networking sites were really designed to connect people with who you didn't know, and might share your hobbies and interests. Alex Capecelatro: Hyphos is a social discovery platform. How did the company come about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” He is not alone, according to a recent study , which concludes that only 47% of companies use social media today for marketing, despite the fact that 78% of executives polled feel it’s critical for success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content).

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. Some companies are solving for this problem algorithmically. I’m forwarding it to all of my portfolio companies). Solve Media is that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions.

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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. For example, you can add $AAPL to separate the post from regular posts, which we pulled into our own search around that ticker.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. Example of publishers include: moviefone, Fandango, Jingle, SayNow, and voice blogs. Total raised: $30mm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content).

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2010

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with Kieve Huffman , the co-founder of Dather (www.dather.com), a new Los Angeles startup which has created a tool which helps to aggregate social networking web sites and media. The reception has been phenomenal. What's your background, and how did you start Dather?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We spoke with Idris Manley , founder of NativeTung, last week, to hear more about the company. 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. It also supports blogs. What is NativeTung?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

The challenge is now to effectively integrate social media with traditional media, and thus move your marketing ahead of the crowd. This integration, or fusion with traditional marketing, is discussed in detail, with examples, in “ The Fusion Marketing Bible ,” by Lon Safko, author of bestseller “ The Social Media Bible.”

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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. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. You could just outspend.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2007

On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. b) history of success; and c) abundance of start-up companies (so if one fails there is another to jump on). willing to go work for startup companies.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

This issue comes up at the start of almost every new startup company in a variety of forms. Example What do I mean? For something like commenting on a blog post, the ability to easily and quickly authenticate yourself is important. I couldn’t figure out why twitterfeed was sending out tweets of my blog posts.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. My experience has proven that even some well known companies are under-whelming in this department.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” According to this study from last year, over 65% of existing small businesses still ignore social media for marketing, so he is still the rule rather than the exception. Start social networking with peers.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

With large companies, we see them using the same strategy they use to brand products in order to brand their people, through blogging and tweeting, for example. Strategic Planning & Training Marketing * Networking * Social Networking. Manal Richa. Visit my new Website at www.ManalRicha.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. 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. None should be considered mutually exclusive to any other.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. To be honest, I was getting really frustrated by all this talk of ‘social.’

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

The firm recently relocated its headquarters from Hawaii, and we talked with Rob about why someone might need the service, how it's different from the scores of social networking sites on the web, and what problem it's trying to solve. There are so many social networking sites, how do you define what's relevant?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It is a platform that allows anyone who offers a service to advertise it for free – we promote this profile on the most popular social networks such as Twitter , Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Stumbleupon and many more. ProfileTree was a good fit – the branches – network, leaves – people.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Company : FindTheBest. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!].

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