socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2009

Venice, California-based Topspin , a developer of software focused on helping musicians market and distribute their work, launched an upgrade to its product Wednesday at the SXSW festival. However, the firm still isn't taking just any artists, however, explaining it is still in "invite mode" on which artists can use its products.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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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 ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Amidst the media frenzy surrounding Facebook’s S1 filing to go public, some people took pause today to reflect on what the IPO could mean for the social networking giant. They’ll tell you Paternot was an entrepreneurial whiz kid who co-founded the very first social network in the 90′s called TheGlobe.com.

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JULY 15, 2013

The partnership is expected to offer working-class professionals access to job listings directly posted within Kaleio’s Marketplace and additional job and internship listings from leading companies, including Amazon, Google, Starbucks, The New York Times , Yahoo!, What will Kaleio as a social network gain from the partnership?

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OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. That’s called product leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support.

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APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. Zazzle] and c) artisan products [etsy, foodzie].

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance. I've always felt that financial vertical is the one vertical--with Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Reuters, and First Data--where Twitter should be involved in. Only a dummy would do it again. Our goal is to build a sustainable business. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We built this to support corporate portals--companies that have a corporate presence on the web--but also see that social networks like MySpace or Facebook could use this technology to allow users at their site to communicate in their native language with other users. The last place I worked was at Yahoo. It also supports blogs.

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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. How do you use LinkedIn?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

It's a real loss of productivity. We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. Additionally, we have all the different instant messaging networks available in Orgoo. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how That's our initial target.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

The late night didn’t make for a productive start to the morning but by the time Sean Percival got on stage to host the panel with Chris Brogan, Micah Baldwin (who started #FollowFriday) and Ben Huh (ICanHazCheeseburger) there was a great discussion on what it takes to be an Uber-blogger and social networker.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Bccthis just announced a version of their product which plugs into Gmail. Dave told us about how and why he and his co-founders--both previously executives at Twistbox--decided to start their own startup, specifically outside of the mobile industry, and a bit about the product. How long has Bccthis been around?

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MARCH 17, 2010

LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. You don’t. Get over it.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc., MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! Successfully negotiated ground breaking deals with several of the major media companies whose content became the basis for many of these products. On Demand).

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. The Founder & CEO of Ad.ly is Sean Rad.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The new model includes viewing content — but adds interactivity, multiple screens, personalization, social networking, cloud streaming and mobility. Platforms, in a sense, whether you use a large screen or smaller mobile screen — the product is essentially a mobile device,” said Wan. What does that mean? Even more choices.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Ian Rogers – Topspin Media Ian Rogers was the GM of Yahoo Music before heading to Topspin Media in April 2008 as CEO. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. He blogs here and tweets here. Previously Ian worked for AOL’s Nullsoft unit.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. Social media. Social networking. Social games. More Products. VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Whats Hot Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. what’s hot? Star Trek Contest.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew Graczyk is founder of angel-backed Zubican (www.zubican.com)--saw a problem, which was the difficulty of finding suppliers for products for businesses--and decided to solve the problem, with a site specifically targeted at helping B2B buyers and sellers connect. It's a full-blown, B2B social network.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 This is the same with competing activity streams in various social networks.

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JUNE 13, 2011

The annual Apple event where no real hints about what products they plan to release are floated in the public domain in advance. Any company who develops products reliant on iOS spends weeks crapping their pants before WWDC. Or Twitter launches its own photo-sharing app integrated into their product. And AOL stopped Yahoo!

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. . Building Products While Serving Clients: Why and How. Want 1 million people to pay for your product?

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. He is on a mission to form 500 free corporations for first-time, passionate entrepreneurs. Otis Chandler – Founder and CEO of Goodreads. The site has since grown to nearly 7.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2017

By definition, these are all really thinly disguised Internet search engines, provided by or competing against the 500 or more existing search engines already out there, including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Yet another social networking site. The second biggest reason is lack of focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2014

Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. Remember the three “big gorillas” in this space, Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2013

Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. Remember the three “big gorillas” in this space, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2011

Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. Remember the three “big gorillas” in this space, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

You think that anybody really believed 1999 that two young kids out of Stanford had a shot at unseating Yahoo!, Excite, Ask Jeeves and Lycos? Yeah, right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2010

Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia lists about 300 sites by name, which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. CEOWorld Magazine prioritizes about 40 of the most famous business networking sites. Search engines.

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AUGUST 19, 2012

What went wrong at Yahoo!? Jonathan Strauss is ex Yahoo!). Is App.net right the rail against ad-supported social networks or ad-supported products more broadly? In the video we discussed supermarkets and product companies as channels as an example. data to run effective social media campaigns.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Given how Apple’s products are normally delivered to near perfection it is likely to be a huge holiday hit this year. At the time all telco’s were envious of Yahoo! And meanwhile I’ve seen several LA startups focus on creating low-cost video production & distribution houses.

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