SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Email - are you sending out emails periodically? Are there complex rules for when emails go out? Will you also have a separate login?

Development

Berkonomics

MAY 23, 2011

Many of our decisions seem to be made by others, with meetings scheduled requiring our attendance, the landslide of emails arriving hourly, emergencies popping up requiring immediate attention, and more. . Email readers continue here.] Each of us makes many decisions each day as to where to spend the days’ time. Who knows?

Press

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Email - are you sending out emails periodically? Are there complex rules for when emails go out? Will you also have a separate login?

Development

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable. ” Or, “I sent u an email.

Tips

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Then I get people sending me Twitter comments, blog comments and tons & tons of email intros. Thanks for the tip – we’re now actively engaged in discussion.&#. And when you do email me, make sure to remind me of the context that we met after the panel. Email people that you want to meet and are approachable (e.g.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

How many people do you know who have a thousand emails in their inbox, or just a few awaiting follow-up for over a week from people who matter? The idea time for most executives is in the shower, or during other non-work activities. A numbing 68% of all business lost in America is lost due to lack of follow-up after the sale.

Activity

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Talking about how to inspire moms to get their children engaged with iPads and physical activity sets customized for their kids and based in part on their digital lives. Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. When you think about physical stickers and activity books every parent can understand. Showing me designs.

Startup

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Nimble's web-based software lets users track all of their interaction with a customer or client, including emails, social networking activity, phone calls, and more. Nimble--which is led by CRM software vet Jon Ferrara--said that the new enhancements lets users pull in external data, such as maps, invoices, news, and much more.

Web

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

It is natural for executives and entrepreneurs with lots on their plate and little extra time – to just keep up the same activities that have made the company a success. Keep on doing what works and grows the company (rinse and repeat) and actively work on the rest? Good ones tend to stay with the company longer.

Activity

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

So I recommend a high-level “state of the company” email a couple of times a year but a message that you assume might get shown to others. We are doing what we do – writing larger checks and playing an active role at the company.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. You build relationships with communications and activity. CRM systems today don't do a good job of even integrating email, much less social.

Google

InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2014

Absent a human gatekeeper, you can capture a busy individual''s attention by crafting a compelling and pithy email subject line, voicemail message, Tweet, Quora or Facebook message. Monitor the activity of the people you want to connect with and find a valid reason to congratulate them. Congratulations. Sue.Who@acme.com).

Networking

Berkonomics

JANUARY 2, 2014

Most often, one partner remained active as another partner drifted away from the business, no longer carrying the weight anticipated at start-up. The agreement was that he would retain all of the revenues generated from those activities. I was bitter, but unable to do anything about it, since there was no partnership agreement.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Well, aside from it showing discipline and intelligence – we always get flooded with emails when we recruit and when you have to manage volume you need to go for obvious filters. He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. Are you merging?

Venture Capital

socalTECH

JULY 14, 2014

Email delivery service provider SendGrid has opened up a new office in Orange County, saying today that. SendGrid did not say how many people it is looking to hire at the location, however, it say sit is actively hiring across the company. jobs growth services email expansion county orange sendgrid employment' READ MORE>>.

Orange County

Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

Penetrate the Fortune 500 with at least five active accounts within two years. Email readers, continue here…] Note that these are expansive “junior” goals that, if achieved, would certainly move the company forward toward a larger financial goal. Expand into at least three new continents through new distribution channels.

Organization

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2015

Rexter''s software--which runs across mobile platforms, tablets, and PCs--helps consolidate and manage their contacts from across social networking sites and email, and helps users manage those contacts and activities.

Altadena

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

Los Angeles startup accelerator StartEngine has launched its third class, a new batch of fourteen startups which have set up shop in the incubator's Westwood Village space under the watchful eyes of Activision co-founder Howard Marks and investor Paul Kessler.

Class

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2011

In an email to Amazon Associates who are located in California, Amazon said that it will terminate the associates program for California-based participants, as of the date of any law on the issue becomes effective.

Southern California

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I do it every morning and many school days I get email and/or blogging out of the way in the early morning so I can cuddle up with them before school. When I was done I had to send an email to Adam Lezack that was urgent and due by the morning. When the family wakes up I stop, cuddle, hang out and start the morning activities.

Blogging

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2015

Like many of you I dragged my mobile phone into my bedroom at night and would occasionally check email or Twitter or Facebook before bed. I used my iPhone as my alarm clock and I often did 20 minutes of email in bed in the morning before starting my day. But the evening sessions led to my thinking about work right before sleeping.

Mobile

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

It came from my weekend activities. I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. I spent an hour on the phone working with Sam Rosen, the CEO of MakeSpace on a senior exec he is considering hiring.

Networking

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. In business you spend your life in email. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

Venture Capital

Berkonomics

MARCH 20, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] I’ve often repeated that entrepreneurs must construct a short, single sentence “mantra” that explains what you do in as few words as possible, sometimes using the name of a well-known company as a proxy for your activities. “We Both work – with the dominant share being preferred.

Marketing

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 17, 2021

When test results are ready, customers get an email with a link to a website to get their results. We also initiated a vulnerability assessment, including the review of server access logs to detect any unrecognized network activity or unusual authentication failures.” How Jamaica failed to handle its JamCOVID scandal.

Software Review

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of a contact activity tracking tool for Office 365 and G Suite which is led by Jon Ferrara, says it has enhanced its browser extension for helping teams with their sales prospecting efforts. The company did not say which browsers the extension works for, but said that Nimble Prospector 2.0

Template

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , which is by far Southern California's most active acquirer of technology companies, announced this morning that it has acquired six more companies. j2 Global said it acquired Fonebox , Everyday Health , CudaMail , Unified eMail , Abaxio , and GreenFax , all during Q4 of 2016. READ MORE>>.

Company

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 22, 2012

I discovered that the authenticity averages of these leading Twitter personalities is abysmal,with only 29% real and active, 30% fake and the remaining 41% inactive. However, for anyone interested, my average scores are: 3% fake, 13% inactive and 84% active. My apologies to anyone I inadvertently excluded from this list.

Startup

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

So, what we do, is bring all of that data together into a unified, comprehensive solution, so they can manage all of that activity and data in one place. All of the activity we're monitoring, and ways we're engaging and allowing clients to engage with consumers are 100 percent through their smart phone. It just snowballed from there.

Social Media

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails.

Startup

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Maverick Angels--which was founded by the late John Dilts --was one of a number of angel investment groups active in making investments in local startups, and functioned both as a place to find potential investors--as well as equally serving as a social club for the investors themselves. READ MORE>>.

Tech Coast Angels

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current. It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network? As part of that, I built a ton of relationships at Active. That's what Active did for marathons, tennis tournaments, and Little Leagues.

Platform

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Arguably the least-authentic personality on the list, Kim Kardashian, has the most legitimate followers of the Top 15 Tweeters, with 43% of her Twitter fans judged by StatusPeople to be real and active. In contrast, 53% of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's 910,000 followers are active and authentic, with 16% deemed fake and 31% inactive.

Sample

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

j2 Global owns a huge variety of Internet services, ranging from Internet fax and virtual phone, to email marketing, online backup, unified communications, and more. The company has been a very active acquirer of companies across the globe. j2 Global said the acquisition moves the company into the web hosting arena. READ MORE>>.

Web

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I wonder if companies ought to have senior executives spend a paid week away every year with the only goal, “to think about what major initiatives they want to enact in the next year.&# Most corporate retreats are spent doing busy activities and don’t leave enough time for reflection. Some of it is important, no doubt.

Slides

Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

After being an active angel investor for about fifteen years, I realized that many of the discussions I was involved in were virtually identical to ones I’d had many times before. Email readers, continue here.] By Basil Peters. A good example was during the negotiation of a term sheet.

Venture Capital

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Email readers, continue here…] But beware. It would be worth spending time with your team with someone volunteering to take the unpopular position just to explore the edges of this with speakers for each of the alternatives actively bringing the alternative views to the discussion.

Resource