Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

It an era of social media and newsreaders titles matter a lot. When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. I should know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2021, from 280 to 360 out of 100,000 of the adult population. They helped create over 5 million new businesses in 2022, a forty percent increase over the previous year. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

Facebook expanded its mea culpa on Monday for failing to prevent “bad actors” such as Russian entities from using the social media platform to distort democratic processes—notably the U.S. presidential election in 2016. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already announced Friday. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Over 600,000 new businesses were created in the last year, or over one per minute of every day. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

In my experience, the good news is that everyone is becoming more and more comfortable with relationships via the new media and technology. The bad news is that I still find a lot of you who don’t use these tools effectively, or haven’t learned the rules for nurturing remote relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. I’m ok with announcing straight away or waiting until you have product or team confidence to release the news. Funding is news.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

In this article you’ll discover how to start a blog that makes money. There are four types of blogs; written blogs, video blogs, photo blogs and a combination of these. We’ll primarily be discussing written blogs. There are two different components to make money blogging. Let’s discuss. Not really.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Spotify Acquires Gimlet Media and Anchor. Above all, this news points to a big shift in the podcast industry. Gimlet Media, which has called itself the “HBO of podcasts,” is famed for a number of high-quality podcasts. The news was a long time coming. The news comes with three big benefits for Spotify.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 7, 2012

. Recently when at Blog World I got an advance copy of “Laughing at Wall Street” by Chris Camillo. So much so that after months of a deactivated Facebook to escape from the noise, it all the sudden has a new meaning and I turned it back on. Cheers to discovering a real return on using social media.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Ordinarily, Twitter’s announcement that some of its users can now send tweets twice as long as its signature 140-character limit, and that this freedom could be broadened to others, would have been the company’s top news of the week. elections heat up. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 7, 2009

Monday, July 13, 2009 -- SMCLA: Citizen Journalism: Social Media's Effect on How News is Reported and Consumed. More and more people are turning to social media as the first place they look for breaking news. the traditional media and b.) What does this mean for: a.) See [link] (more).

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Although Worlize may be news to some they have been around for just over a year and they are based right here in Los Angeles. Worlize is a user-created social gaming and chat platform for Facebook and social networks including Twitter, MySpace and OpenSocial. These past few months we have seen the rebirth of virtual worlds.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2009

Thursday, August 13, 2009 -- Entertainment News Goes Social Panel. Join us for our panel discussion on how industry news sources are using online, especially social media, to report entertainment news. Digital LA. Extra extra read all about it! online, your iPhone, Blackberry, tweets, etc!

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

The change will affect “nearly all” of Google’s 200,000 employees, including contractors and full-time workers, according to The Wall Street Journal , which first reported the news. In a blog post in May, Google announced it would begin reopening its offices from early July this year. Remote Working: What Is Twitter Doing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2019

It seems at times we’re never far removed from any one person, through their published papers, social media connections, friends, colleagues, or people they’ve mentored. We had terrible news this week of the deaths of two people whose lives and work touched many people. But these worlds can be small, too.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The hires at SPIN included Nicole Sia (News Editor, was BUZZMEDIA's Executive Producer of Music Programming); and Chris Martins (Senior Writer, previously at Filter). BUZZMEDIA operates a large stable of entertainment-related brands, including SPIN, Celebuzz, Stereogum, Videogum, Buzznet, TheSuperficial, and many others.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

News aggregating company Thoora gives you all your media news, social and traditional, in one place. Thoora has recently come out of private beta offering their free service of breaking news that is based off of millions of blogs, thousands of traditional media outlets and Twitter. on the web.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. Tell us about the new fund? It''s good news for us, but it''s also good news for Los Angeles technology.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Not so long ago, business leaders operated behind the scenes, and even long-time employees rarely heard from them or saw them in the news. Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Hollywood-based, music-related blog and content firm Buzznet has reportedly cut employees, according to a report from Digital Music News. Buzznet operates an online social networking and social media site focused on music and bands, and is backed by Anthem Ventures, Interscope, Redpoint Ventures, and others.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2017

News is constantly streaming out these days about the role of Facebook, Twitter, and Google in the 2016 presidential election; most disturbing to the public is the apparent use of social media, search, and video channels by Russian operatives seeking to influence U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. I find this so inauthentic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

With the advent of social media and the pervasive move to smartphones, even customers who still prefer to purchase in brick-and-mortar stores have dramatically changed their shopping habits. I still see too many websites that look like they have had no updates or blogs in months or even years.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Statistical models, simulations, social media outreach, and the capacity to analyze big data sets—you’d think by now that technology would have delivered election forecasts that more reliably predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race. Even so, the Republican pollsters apparently pegged the race.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2017

ScoreStream, a San Diego area startup providing a crowdsourced social media platform for reporting high school sports scores, said Thursday it has agreed to distribute high school game scores under a new collaboration agreement with The Associated Press.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2018

This scintillating information led to a new social media phenomenon, the “ girther ” movement, and a number of articles questioning the findings of longtime White House physician Ronny Jackson. Meanwhile, there was life-science and biomedical news actually pertinent to the public health of the U.S.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Sometimes I make a blog entry. It’s something I speak about quite a bit (see Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospects and Social Media for Service Professionals ). I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. Look forward to the discussion. Love the minis!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

There are many more, but these should get you started: Create a professional website and blog. A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content). Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. With these, your business presence can look big and credible even when you are small.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2015

If your business is to be a thought leader in the social media world, the dominant system of grading how much influence you have online today is your Klout score, as explained in a recent book, “ Klout Matters ,” by Gina Carr and Terry Brock. Allocate some time to spend on social media. Continue to learn and grow.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Among the host of legal woes Facebook is now confronting amid news about the misuse of its member profiles in election politics: The Federal Trade Commission revealed Monday that it is investigating the social media giant’s privacy practices.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. Talk like a human. Give real answers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He started the call by telling me he had exciting news. He was about to be featured in a major US news magazine as one of their “hot&# picks. A positive news story means NOTHING about the core performance of your business. I’d love to do a 30 minute call just to update you on our exciting news.&#.

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