socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Givezooks , a developer of social fundraising software for nonprofits, told its users today that it has launched a new way to allow nonprofits to offer up tickets or sponsorships of their events from Facebook, as well as from their website.

Santa Barbara 178

Santa Barbara Oracle Organization Sales 178

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We caught up with Dan to hear about how the firm is going beyond online sales, and making shopping online for fashion as much entertainment as e-commerce. It's loosely based on the Japanese concept of a "lucky bag sale". Lucky bag sales were originally a physical store concept, and what we've done, is taken that online here in the U.S.

Commerce 153

Commerce Sites Entertainment Social Network 153

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

Right now, news organizations write off the news cycle. The second piece, is we distribute that across search engines and social networks. If you're coming through a social network, you're most likely sharing, a different experience. We give newsrooms the ability to understand what they're doing. READ MORE>>.

Marketing 232

Marketing Funding Content Writing 232

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Each day Doppels will let you know whose birthday it is within your social network or local area and offer you a wish, gift or text option. Brands that are trying to crack this demographic need to start thinking differently as the younger demographic is looking to give gifts in an organic and thoughtful way, Hagger said.

Startup 126

Startup Venice Social Network Tool 126

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

There are an increasing number of social networking tools like Linked In, Face book, Plaxo, that are bringing together colleagues, friends, professionals and businesses in an increasingly complex web of connections.

Networking 100

Networking TechBiz Social Network Web 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2012

Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. Every organization today faces the expectations of an always-on world.

Customer 93

Customer Custom Networking Entrepreneur 93

Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2010

A creative CEO will find ways to motivate and compensate for the lone nature of working alone, but using social networking tools to make office workers and home workers feel and behave as a unit. I have a friend who is a CEO of a recruiting firm who “virtualized” her company after a decade of maintaining a fixed office location.

Conference 136

Conference Email Social Network Tool 136

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

million for a social networking site 18 months ago. I was looking for a person to head up my UK sales team. But as a sales person you have to be able to build rapport. If you’re going to see a client and somebody else in their organization is having big customer service issues, don’t sweep in under the rug.

Venture Capital 264

Venture Capital Startup Training Sales 264

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. You hear about that all the time, but being able to pull together people that have such disparate skill sets, to be able to have them wear all the different hats in an organization, that is so critically important.

Startup 197

Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many adds came through organic SEO? How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? 40% of our revenue is coming from remnant banner ads served by ad networks. 10% of our revenue is coming from direct sales of our banner inventory. How many through SEM?

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

Understanding your vulnerability and understanding the power of those with whom you must do business is a very important part of figuring out as a startup how to fit into the broader ecosystem and the art of statecraft is tremendously important in knowing when and how to project power in sales, recruiting, negotiations, fund raising, etc.

Startup 150

Startup Google Software Review Snapchat 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Business Sales Techniques. You need to be able to figure out what not to do, and how to not do it, by organizing and prioritizing, and still impress your boss with your thoroughness. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Job Hunting Basics.

Class 93

Class Course Writing Slides 93

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Consumers all have access to social networks, but the business-side has never really caught on. Labinot Bytyqi: The whole idea came up when I was working in the corporate world. Why not elsewhere?

Social Media 92

Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Business Sales Techniques. You need to be able to figure out what not to do, and how to not do it, by organizing and prioritizing, and still impress your boss with your thoroughness. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Job Hunting Basics.

Course 97

Course Writing Slides Email 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. Every organization today faces the expectations of an always-on world.

Customer 91

Customer Custom Startup Networking 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2011

Business Sales Techniques. You need to be able to figure out what not to do, and how to not do it, by organizing and prioritizing, and still impress your boss with your thoroughness. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Job Hunting Basics.

Course 91

Course Writing Social Network Ideas 91

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

A member of the Young Presidents Organization YPO – since 2003. The opportunity to innovate and take ZunguZ forward and make it a reality transpired with the uptake and traction of Social Networks in the early 2000’s and more specifically with the launch of Facebook in 2004 and its momentum gained over the next few years.

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2013

In the age of social networking, everyone has hundreds--even thousands--of connections online. But, to a business person, those connections and network are only good as the real life relationships they create. It looks like you have some notable advisors helping you with this?

Networking 178

Networking Startup Software eHarmony 178

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

They can access them, organize them, and keep them in one location. Additionally, we have all the different instant messaging networks available in Orgoo. You can archive and organize your IM conversations, along and inside the same folders as your email. It's a real loss of productivity. That's our initial target.

Email 113

Email Yahoo Startup Google 113

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

Our company, Jute Networks, is a startup that is about a year and a half old. We build web software that improves the ability of people to manage their networks. We're specifically not a social network. Many times people have extraordinary amounts of relationship capital inside their organization. READ MORE>>.

Networking 113

Networking Startup Social Network Software 113

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

Again in 2009, sales of all pocket camcorders were just over $2 billion world-wide, growing 21% in unit sales to 13.6 The social networks have figured out how to share them. With producing at our finger tips, we can film our lives to post for the word to see.

Startup 65

Startup Content Design Organization 65

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

File the Articles of Organization and an Operating Agreement with the Secretary of State’s Office. 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. Creating a corporation?

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Pierce is an advisor to Casual Connect, GamesBeat, and Digital Media Wire, an active angel investor and member of BitAngels and an active supporter of non-profit and advocacy organizations and is a member of Clinton Global Initiative. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Social Media Week (SMW) helps organizations connect and share the latest social media findings through social, cultural and economic talks and workshops in major cities worldwide. This keeps the event organizers aware of capacity limitations. Social Ink: Writers, Creativity, and Social Networking with WGAW.

Social Media 92

Social Media Los Angeles Media Angel 92

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. The other feature that sets us apparent, is our integration with social media. We caught up with Jason and Kurt to hear more about the company.

Startup 100

Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. Milo Sindell: Essentially, a Genie is an online web application that is organized into certain sections, by day, week, month, units, steps, or classes.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Join local organizations like OCTANe , TechStars or Launchpad LA. If you’re really an entrepreneur you’ll find a way to network with the right people. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? Don’t worry if they can’t help in your daily business. It creeps people out.

Angel 291

Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We help them identify products that are safe and health for them and their families, from organic baby food, to household items. For lack of a better word, it's really social shopping--not in the way of using social networking to drive sales, but because moms are social, to allow them to share information regularly online.

Software Review 200

Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. My blog was wiped out. Biggest lessons ….

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant. USA Angel Investment Network.

Startup 135

Startup Keiretsu Platform Invest 135

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

When tickets went on sale over a month ago, we expected the regular ticket sales cycle, however we were more than surprised when Startup Weekend LA sold out in 6 hours! If Avesta sees someone drinking Coloft coffee (organic of course), he quickly asks if they’ve sold anything. Nice work by everyone and congrats to our winners!!

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Jake Wood serves as President of Team Rubicon , the organization he co-founded following the massive earthquake in Haiti. Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media. He is the founder of eMinutes.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78