Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school. New can turn old very quickly.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm very curious to hear any reactions to this idea of a hot list. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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MAY 25, 2010

Let’s face it, if people want to blog as a career they have to be able to make money. They don’t want to ever wake up and hear their users saying their moving on another platform where they can make more money as Lady Gaga’s manager does here about MySpace. This is good for Twitter as well.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Why did MySpace win? Certainly MySpaces tie-in with music was a genius move. But even if you came to me with that idea, Im not sure I would have bought it. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school. New can turn old very quickly.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

We also have a mobile platform, which integrates with Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. The idea is to take social media promotion to even things like T-Shirts, and launch that into social actions. We had the idea, is how about we sell that content to brands, who can use that for social updates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school. New can turn old very quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school.

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JUNE 18, 2010

industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2010

There are already a couple of good books out there for youth entrepreneurs, such as a new one from my friends Adam and Matthew Toren, Kidpreneurs: Young Entrepreneurs with Big Ideas. Sites like MySpace already allow teens to customize their home base with graphics, blogs, and music to make it more attractive to their peers – that’s marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

What things did he experiment in the early days when there was no Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace to promote oneself? I had written a blog post on exactly this – how to not suck at group presentations – and what he said reminded me a lot of this post. Cham had other ideas. He wanted to be bootlegged even more.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. In July 2005 News Corporation bought MySpace parent company eUniverse for $580 M, of which approximately $327 M was the valuation of MySpace. He blogs here and tweets here. Founded in January 2004, Weblogs, Inc. Want to sponsor?

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

What's the idea behind Audiolife? We allow them to have virtual store fronts, portable stores, which they can place on their social networking profiles, on their own dot com, on their blogs, and so forth--anywhere fans already interact with the artist. That includes digital downloads, ring tones, CDs, and other merchandise.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. That summit would have been so foggy from day one you couldn’t have predicted it.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. We thought to ourselves, this would be a great idea to try out on our own. We've also got a deep blog with lots of great content about how to prepare for DogVacay, how to take care of your dogs, and more. We spoke to Aaron about the company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. We thought to ourselves, this would be a great idea to try out on our own. We've also got a deep blog with lots of great content about how to prepare for DogVacay, how to take care of your dogs, and more. We spoke to Aaron about the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? 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.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Then I (Chidi) brainstormed on a little yet brilliant idea to verify who’s right and not. But we cannot deny the fact that some people are shy or uncomfortable to walk up to others and introduce themselves or business ideas. This idea is prohibited by the policy of some social networks to add only the people you know.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. A little bit Berkeley, but more Stanford to the point where three PhDs graduating from Stanford and a huge idea can get a $20 million check to swing for the fences and build a huge company. Thats not Los Angeles. What is happening in L.A.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. BUT … if you do create the next MySpace, Facebook or Twitter there will be much money at stake.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

The code for each site is very simple: Twitter: Plurk: Delicious: Digg: Facebook: MySpace (I think this is right but I don’t have a login to test it): Ping.fm: StumbleUpon: LinkedIn: Place these anywhere you’d like on a static page or in the Wordpress theme file that controls single posts (typically single.php).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

What's the idea behind Topspin Media? The importance of people finding things through friends, and access through music blogs, discovery through music sites or Pandora and other ways is increasing. Topspin is backed by Redpoint Ventures and The Foundry Group. They're still important, but they're decreasing.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 The standard to watch is activity strea.ms close behind.

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MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. This is unintentional and inevitable. We covered the topics discussed on VentureHacks.

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MAY 5, 2011

But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. The people with the time, energy & creativity to build organizations like TechStars need to bring their ideas to fruition. It takes both to build a community. It’s important.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. 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.

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MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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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. Salesforce was very good at managing the 1-year roadmap so at any point in time we had a pretty good idea about what we would be developing and what we wouldn’t.

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