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Interview with David Sacks, Geni and Yammer

socalTECH

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. We sat down with David to catch up on what Geni and Yammer are doing, plus got his insights into entrepreneurship and the Paypal mystique.

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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

We collaborate using Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Yammer, Skype, GoToMeeting, Fuze and hundreds of other tools not available to the last generation of whiteboard, personal meeting or teleconference users. The mobile web will become what desktop Internet became in the 1990’s – the standard platform for anyone doing business.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

socalTECH

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today.

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10 Apps & Tools for Maximizing Personal Efficiency

Frank Addante

Sanebox (Email Organization) : Service that uses algorithms to organize your email into what’s important and what’s not. The only con with the web application is that it can’t be used offline. Yammer (Internal Communication): It’s like a private twitter for your company. It works amazing well. Tips: Trust it.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. In business you spend your life in email. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. The company was called Red Beacon. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. Nice sweep!

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. 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.