socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. Basically, we've built a platform that allows businesses to build social media promotions across multiple social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Linkedin.

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MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. Please do not read that I think an early-stage company with limited product and only beta customers should go straight for a $5 million fund raising. It is also a result of pent-up demand.

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JULY 18, 2012

If you are in the realm of the 47% of small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the new book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. We worked night and weekends, fleshed out the concept, and in July and August of 2008 we launched the product, took on some angel funding, and started the process.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc., Custom ad deals and partnerships. Csathy was President and CEO of Sorenson Media, Inc., a highly respected global video company that services virtually all media companies and 70 of the Fortune 100.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

ZexSports and PacSun are putting an amazing panel together to discuss the value of key social influencer's, where they are on your social network, and how targeting these potential brand evangelists will have a positive influence on your social media network and ROI. This Panel has gotten extreme and sold out!

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

It ran in April of 2008. Tom Grasty: There are, as I like to say, no shortage of online video editing platforms, online video editors, or social networking sites, even though there are fewer online editors now than eighteen months ago. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. We thought about where else we could apply it to, and thought about the various social networking services, and specifically, Twitter. We do need to make money at some point, but right now we're trying to nail down the customer fit.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While running my family wine business , I used Twitter’s search for market research and to find new customers. When the Mars Phoenix found water on Mars in June 2008, they announced it on Twitter. It was, and still is, an incredible customer service tool. It’s a powerful tool for social utility and a great social network.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

That said, the founders only committed to the project fulltime in 2008, when traffic hit over 1 million visit a month. The service can be accessed by computer, mobile phone ( iPhone , Android ) or social network ( Facebook ). When was it launched? In 2009, after their first round of investment, they launched internationally.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. What truth?

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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. With access to billions of mobile impressions and cutting-edge location technology we make sure that your message reaches customers ready to buy what you sell. The site has since grown to nearly 7.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising.

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MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Jonah was working on his masters thesis and he asked Nike to produce a customized shoe with the word “Sweatshop” on it.

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