SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The product right now is like basic Facebook, and we are updating it to a new format we think more people will want, sort of a hybrid between Pinterest and Reddit, so that you can have any combination of features between those two. We scaled that to almost $1.4
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Both Sides of the Table
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 ). They have become a juggernaut in online advertising, pictures, video and online games. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
From there most websites unfortunately don’t know what to really do with it so it basically just becomes a way to log you in and potentially allow advertisers to serve up more targeted (and therefore higher CPM) ads. It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. We then spoke about startups.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs. million in SF Bay Area ).
Both Sides of the Table
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 ). billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Now I don’t get any.
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