Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Factor in the fundamental shift to ‘pull’ marketing taking place across the world in media and advertising. Understand the basic tools – the social media trinity. Blogging (Wordpress), micro-blogging (Twitter), and social networks are the trinity. Assess and commit the resources required. Then set your goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment to be hard hitting – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. In a classic one I read a while back, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. One I read a while back, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., Attracting key stakeholders requires sensitivity.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. they have purchasing intent ).*. Here’s why.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. One I just read, “ How to Make Money with Social Media ” by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., Your Twitter YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

I couldn't find them, and was frustrated by the lack of resources for B2B buyers. It's a full-blown, B2B social network. it combined the metrics of how a company is rated, if a company has taken control of their profile, how much data we have, and how recently it was updated, and how often that profile is used by users.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions.

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