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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies?

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TechZulu Live to Premiere "TZLaw" at 5:15 p.m. PT Thursday, October 7, with IP Attorney Denise Grayson of "The Social Network"

Tech Zulu Event

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". In "The Social Network" Denise portrays Gretchen, the attorney of Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.

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Interview with Zac Brandenberg, Meteor Games

socalTECH

Brandenberg was most recently head of Hydra, and we thought we'd both get some insight into how Meteor is approaching the social games market, how the firm hopes to repeat the success it saw with Neopets, and also what Brandenberg learned from his time at Hydra. In late fall and winter of 2009, it had reached 8-10 million players already.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

Both Sides of the Table

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Some of them are beautifully designed and have exciting teams so I know why investors are pumped up about the teams they’ve backed.

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Interview with Scott Saunders, Payoff.com

socalTECH

To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. In terms of the problem, is the majority of tools available today to help people with their money have been designed by financial times, for people more like them. Tell me the story behind Payoff.com?

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TechZulu #TechCrawl | Hollywood Edition

Tech Zulu Event

Grindr, which first launched in 2009, has exploded into the largest and most popular all-male location-based social network out there. Be a host company (must provide food / drink to attendees), then email events@techzulu.com with TZTECHCRAWL as the subject. Grindr , WeWork , & IgnitedSpaces are already on board!!

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.

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