Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In startups, a great success like Google causes busts by stimulating more supply, without regard to demand. Cheap money.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Taking a chapter out of the popularity of sites like Chatroulette in connecting up strangers with one another, Los Angeles-based Anybeat , the alternative social networking site run by Dmitri Shapiro, said Friday that it has rolled out a new feature called "Interest Roulette". READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

All of this has become a lot more relevant lately given social networking. And any even casual follower of the tech industry knows that Google Plus has been criticized for cracking down on anybody who wasn’t a “real person.” He has founded a new social networking site called AnyBeat to take on this issue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook as a virtual social network built on a lifetime of friendships, while offering advertisers a powerful and targeted marketing tool. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. Persuasive and empowering.

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based Taltopia , an angel backed, online social networking site focused on Hollywood, said today that it has launched both Apple iPhone and Google Android applications. Tags: taltopia casting calls hollywood entertainment content jobs venture capital angel investment. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). 15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud. The firm has backing from such investors as Google Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and OReilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2018

Tech startups are always looking to capitalize on the next big thing. Voice startups can accomplish tasks and streamline user’s lives all from within an Echo or Google Home device. market capitalization, and tech is a growing target for corporate research and development dollars. .” Tech Incumbents Are Essential.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

I first heard the term from Chris Fralic at First Round Capital. Either company had the potential to try and broaden their businesses to turn them into something monetizable whether it be a social network, a telecom company, a gaming company, a media company – whatever. Google has Google Voice.

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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 ). ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook as a virtual social network built on a lifetime of friendships, while offering advertisers a powerful and targeted marketing tool. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. Persuasive and empowering.

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APRIL 14, 2012

…” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter. My friend Christin Herron of Intel Capital weighed in on the issue. Hang on, Mark.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Competitors: Google. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. You can hear his full argument in the interview.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley may still be the capital of technology with a mix of new (Google, Facebook) and old (Apple, HP) sprinkling the landscape. Hachi : Hachi puts the “networking” back in social networking. However, Silicon Valley isn’t the only place to grow technology innovators from the ground up.

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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

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

So we look at the front end, where social was new at the time, and what we were seeing was that social was becoming a wonderful search engine for jobs, through Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, where people were using those services to uncover opportunities. People were not just going to Google, they were looking all over the place.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. Many businesses that pitch to me have White Elephant issues and I’d like to tell you how to deal with these when you’re raising venture capital. million for a social networking site 18 months ago. Many people Google you before meetings.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Facebook filed for its IPO Wednesday afternoon, saying that it is looking to raise up to $5 billion, in what is expected to be the biggest IPO since Google. BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, and Allen & Company. The firm reported net income of $1 billion on revenues of $3.7 Morgan, Goldman Sachs & Co.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2013

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In startups, a great success like Google causes busts by stimulating more supply, without regard to demand. Cheap money.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Clearly these advertisements make some impact but often the effects aren’t measurable (and even when you do see something it is often subconscious and may manifest itself later as a search query in Google and therefore harder to attribute to the banner). Some companies are solving for this problem algorithmically.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We support various translation gateways from Google, Microsoft, and other third party translation engines. There's Google, Microsoft, Lionbridge, SYSTRAN, all of whom are spending huge amounts of money to be able to become the dominant language translation vendor. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2012

Pasadena-based Triptrotting , which operates an online service to help connect travelers with local hosts, has raised $1M in a Series A funding, the firm said this morning.The funding came from Google Ventures, Mark Suster, 500 Startups, WI Harper, Bill Gross of Idealab, Safa Raschtchy, and Eric Chen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook as a virtual social network built on a lifetime of friendships, while offering advertisers a powerful and targeted marketing tool. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. Persuasive and empowering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002. Try to capitalize on your strengths, rather than trying to fix all your weaknesses. Others won’t adapt and won’t step aside and cause major or terminal damage to their business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook as a virtual social network built on a lifetime of friendships, while offering advertisers a powerful and targeted marketing tool. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. Persuasive and empowering.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2013

Google did it with search engines, Apple did it with a personal computer, and even Wal-Mart did it through low prices. A business plan I saw a while back to combine all the good features of several popular social networks on one site does not do it. Keep infrastructure costs low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2011

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In startups, a great success like Google causes busts by stimulating more supply, without regard to demand. Cheap money.

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Startup Demand Google Commerce 90

Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2017

And if, like us, you spend the first six months of your startup under a rock, your social capital may begin to dry up. So with no real barometer for reliable talent and a fast-evaporating social network, where should early founders snag that elusive star talent. Tap Into Your Employees’ Networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook as a virtual social network built on a lifetime of friendships, while offering advertisers a powerful and targeted marketing tool. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. Persuasive and empowering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2012

Google did it with search engines, Apple did it with a personal computer, and even Wal-Mart did it through low prices. A business plan I saw a while back to combine all the good features of several popular social networks on one site does not do it. Keep infrastructure costs low.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., In addition, we use primary and secondary social networking information, in order to verify they are who they say they are. How did you end up starting Tala?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Check track record on the Internet and social networks. Do a simple Google search like you would on any company or individual before signing a contract. I recognize that it has been tough to raise capital these last couple of years, but don’t be tempted to take money from any source.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Google did it with search engines, Apple did it with a personal computer, and even Wal-Mart did it through low prices. A business plan I saw a while back to combine all the good features of several popular social networks on one site does not do it. Keep infrastructure costs low.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Create and manage your social media presence. Set up your computer and network.

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