Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Fact: social media is among the top most powerful communication tools today. Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

So throughout 2006/07 when I had really young kids Facebook was truly a social network for sharing family moments. So by the time people started using Facebook for more business purposes or general “social networking” in 2010-2015 I really didn’t have any interest.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. It doesn’t take a huge leap to see how well the VC industry is positioned for the immediate future. In reality many of them could be profitable if they chose to.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2014

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app that mashes up existing technology derived from early social-networking applications. Mashup probably reminds senior leaders of a train wreck, and social networking is still seen by many business executives as a frivolous waste of time.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you look at the blue line below in what we are calling “private-market IPOs” you’ll see the discernible trend that began in 2014 and has continued through 2018 and you’ll see the impact this has potentially had on public IPOs in green. trillion in value. As a result the best companies grow faster than any time in human history.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. We have enough money to last until February of 2014, but here are the options. If you think about what exists today, it's the moment sharing networks.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. We have enough money to last until February of 2014, but here are the options. If you think about what exists today, it's the moment sharing networks.

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Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

I’m rooting for Meerkat to succeed as an independent network. The group of people I might communicate with in a network like this might be different than the people with whom I interact on Twitter and in general I like to see new products and new companies emerge. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 7, 2014. Exciting time.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

According to Gartner's Hype Cycle Special Report for 2014 , wearable user interfaces such as Google Glass are now in this stage. I have intentionally broadened the hype-cycle definitions from their traditional hard-technology application to include soft technologies, such as social networks and entertainment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Groupon’s purchase of Whrrl suggests that Groupon will soon be leveraging location based social networking or "check-ins" on their popular group coupon site. Leave tips where your contacts go (maybe similar to what History Channel does on Foursquare). Track the competition.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

The SunJack (@thesunjack) April 24, 2014. Combining Solar with Social Good. Though we’ll save the brunt of the remaining product details for a view of the Kickstarter campaign , we would like to bring to attention an intriguing part of The SunJack’s Kickstarter campaign – social good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Or, fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

I sold half of my Twitter shares in June 26th 2014, for $41 a share. They introduced native video opportunities in 2014, and views and usage grew very quickly. When you’re the fourth place network, things aren’t going great. It’s a powerful tool for social utility and a great social network.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Cho, a former sales manager for Nikon Instruments and Vala Sciences, founded Echo Labs in 2014. — Industry has developed career and social networking software focused specifically on jobs and workers in restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and hotels—known collectively as “the industry.”. million in nine months.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2015

Social media is a favorite among small business owners. However, social networking sites also have rules. If you are planning to go digital and employ social media marketing, you must educate yourself on these rules or all your efforts will go to waste. Social media is a great platform to post videos and photos.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. In 2014 3 out of 12 exits were occurred at a lower valuation than the previous round.

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