socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. We're doing a lot in social media with Twitter, Facebook, and contributors to our site, and figuring out how they are promoting articles and content through social media.

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. A most valuable tool is WordPress or TypePad for blogging. What’s the problem?

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Startup Social Network 115

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

Thus you end up with Demand Media that booms until Google algorithm changes (Panda) changes send it off a cliff along with many other companies overly reliant upon one “place” and one “promotional” method. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. Mea culpa and get right back into line.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great. I like to call it a cross between blogging and Tweeting. Enter P2P lending. It sucked. It still does.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

It is important to realize that most people who are willing to work for sweat equity are not a) the best, b) in demand, and c) going to put their heart and soul into your project. How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea Another option is sweat equity. Don’t expect someone to work for nothing endlessly.

CTO Hire 241

CTO Hire CTO Coach Equity Develop 241

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. -Real-time search engine.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2014

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said today that it is expanding its offerings in the content area, with an expansion of its Content Solution offerings. According to Demand Media, the expansion includes new content formats and enhanced "publishing and distribution strategies." READ MORE>>.

Demand 138

Demand Content Media Santa Monica 138

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2010

I continue to see stories of really young entrepreneurs, like this article on Business Fastlane , with kids as young as 9 years old who have successful businesses. They need to understand that having money is not an entitlement, and not related to the volume of their demands. Start a summer business.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Commerce Blogging Training 87

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

People who believe the former believe that you should see the market demand before too many people know you’re “in market.” This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon! Come back to this blog over the next 2 weeks and I’ll explain. I think there’s some truth in this.

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

founders a cease and desist email demanding the removal of all CrunchBase content from their People+ app, on the grounds that People+ is “nothing more than a copycat app which “duplicates what CrunchBase offers in order to compete directly” . In an unsettling display of protectionism, AOL serves Prop Populi, Inc.

Technical Review 74

Technical Review Startup Software Review Google 74

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Yesterday I saw a Tweet from Chris Sacca fly by that prompted me to want to write a blog post helping entrepreneurs understand why they should push back against VCs asking for “super pro-rata” rights. They might own 8% of your company after the first funding but demand up to 33-50% of your next round of financing.

Entrepreneur 310

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Writing Invest 310

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

I’m not sure I really even need to write this at length because Nivi absolutely nailed the topic in his article “ The Option Pool Shuffle.&#. If I get demand from people after this video to do a deeper dive on term sheets we will. And no prizes for guessing which side of the table really understands the right answer.

Venture Capital 405

Venture Capital Pricing Startup Funding 405

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

This article is not just another report on the case of Aaron Swartz but serves to be a tribute to the life and awe inspiring personality of a complicated, principled, and brilliant man. Finally, Swartz founded Demand Progress , a group focused on advocating civil liberties and government reform. He allegedly broke into M.I.T.’s

Journal 86

Journal Blogging RSS Report 86

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

All the confusion you hear from friends or read in the press is related to this nuance that early investors demand prorata rights and sometimes fight like hell to maintain them (Facebook problem) and sometimes prefer not to take them (overvalued company that they perceive isn’t doing as well as new investors coming in think).

Guide 336

Guide Venture Capital Startup Writing 336

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We use our combined networks to promote people on our website – so we share profiles on our Facebook page, Tweet them out - interview these small business for our blog to give them more coverage, Share them on Google Plus, etc. They can add photos, video and even a blog article to improve their profile.

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Our goal in this article is to paint a realistic picture of how to think about performance early in the life of an application. This article is focused on the server side, but we encourage you to also look at your application holistically. However, most web applications are not blogs or news sites. High throughput.

Web 200

Web Technical Advisors Framework Technical Review 200

InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in the Wall Street Journal. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Demand Feedback - Unfortunately, data derived from freeloaders is often misleading and seldom includes pointed criticisms that inform your product / market fit.

Technical Support 100

Technical Support Customer Custom Demand 100

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. Your remote control has two buttons.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

About Us Advertise Articles by Topic FAQ FC Expert Blogs Events Subscribe Manage Subscriptions Privacy Terms of Service Contact Us Multimedia About Company of Friends Copyright © 2010 Mansueto Ventures LLC. Fast Cities 13 cool and creative cities with brilliant initiatives. Sponsored by Westin. All rights reserved.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. I was sick of hyperbole articles pronouncing that VCs were “scared or AngelList&# or “it was disrupting VC&# or some other BS exaggeration like that. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

Startup 292

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

A recent Wall Street Journal article that raised the possibility of Biogen as the target of another huge pharma buyout cited the lack of productivity as a major driver of M&A in the pharmaceutical industry. With a limited supply of new firms coming into the business, venture’s ability to expand to meet demand is inherently constrained.

Product 40

Product Journal Venture Capital Demand 40

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

free weekly Infochachkie articles! They demanded that we send them our entire customer list and that we issue a letter to all of our customers indicating that they were not to use our product in violation of the BDC’s licensing terms. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com.

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand.

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Although necessary, “stepping stone” approach of initially utilizing smaller VARs to enter new geographic markets can become problematic as your business grows, because large VARs often demand uncontested, broad, multi-country coverage.

Outsource Development 193

Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

This article originally ran on TechCrunch. Fred Wilson wrote an eloquent piece on his blog about “ recycling capital ,&# which every regional community should read. on to their next companies and that produced Demand Media, a public company who even with a slight recent reduction in share price is still trading at $1.3

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

free weekly Infochachkie articles! Rather than shutting down shop, the student simply moved the operations down the hall and continued satisfy the brisk student demand for the consolidated notes. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com. Brownian motion is alive and well in business.

Ideas 153

Ideas Startup Pricing Entrepreneur 153

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Sebastian’s Pamphlets If you’ve read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. It’s Ok to grab the page title and a summary from a META element like “description&# (or up to 250 characters from an article’s first paragraph) to craft links, for example - but not more!

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Order a reprint of this article now. A version of this article appeared October 5, 2012, on page M1 in the U.S. 41 min ago.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

free weekly Infochachkie articles! However, due to demand from his readership, Baum was forced to write him back into the adventure series. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. Even Baum’s readers loved the Wizard.

Startup 113

Startup Organization Allegis Commerce 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Because we include links in our Tweets, Twitter has become one of the most powerful sources on the Internet for driving traffic to websites, blogs and news sites. Like any company I’d advise, we’ll be focused on multiple streams both because our customers demand it and to maintain our stability as an independent company.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 8, 2015

Adoption is still rising as Miami concerts , Tech Talks and Blog Posts get Meerkatted. Meerkat is one step closer to making live streaming accessible to everyone everywhere and fulfills a marketplace demand for easy streaming with powerful social.

Guide 40

Guide Platform Mobile Blogging 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

It really hit me this past week as I was reading two great articles online (yes, I’m a news & politics junkie). I have never heard of a football team that won by throwing only Hail Mary passes, yet that is what is being demanded of Republican leaders today. And I read an even better article this weekend.

Technical Advisors 150

Technical Advisors Startup Writing Blogging 150