Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. Change is always hard, so people already on Amazon are not easy convert to another e-commerce system. Overconfidence.

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Demand Google Commerce Pricing 145

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media.

Startup 126

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 126

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media News 104

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Jon Waterman: We envision ourselves today as a marketplace outside Google and Bing. Our core competency, historically, has been in the pay-to-click space, but we've focused completely outside of Google and outside of Bing. Talk about the market, when you say you're outside Google and Bing, explain what that means?

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Advertising Startup Google Commerce 203

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Cultivate a preferred relationship with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to ensure the best possible placement of your offering. No company has more value control points than Google, which spans advertising, e-commerce, social media, video and mobile, as well as a full suite of hardware products.

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Develop Development Platform Mobile 138

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. Search Meets Social = Commerce. The combination of Search and Social is redefining the way marketers are allocating their ad budgets. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

TechZulu will be streaming SMCLA: Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics, live from the Mahalo Office in Santa Monica. This month we are going to take a deeper dive into one of the easiest ways to measure online social media efforts – through Google analytics. Come join Social Media Club – Los Angeles on Tuesday, Feb.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce.

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media.

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Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. With Google, you get all the storage you need in the cloud for free. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. Martin Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Commerce 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

Cultivate a preferred relationship with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to ensure the best possible placement of your offering. No company has more value control points than Google, which spans advertising, e-commerce, social media, video and mobile, as well as a full suite of hardware products.

Mobile 126

Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2011

In social media, the underlying artifact of the ecosystem is that consumers are following people. What do you think the social media ecosystem will look like in three years and what role will a fully matured Ad.ly I have been monetizing social media for six years. For exact quotes, watch the videos.

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Social Media Platform Media Networking 252

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2010

Repost of SMCLA's Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics. The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the Mahalo office in Santa Monica. It takes 5 minutes: Google Analytics is about as easy to setup as setting your alarm clock. Google Analytics works within RSS feeds as well: [link] e.)

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Google eBook JavaScript Mahalo 68

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2012

and co-founder Sean Percival is a MySpace vet and a familiar face in Southern California's social media circles. We actually found them organically, through Google search. How has the transition from social media and the Internet to hard goods been for you? Wittleebee is backed by Science Inc.,

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Acquisition Help Social Media Startup 167

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media.

Startup 106

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Here are some key recommendations for building your branding plan: Find out who your customers are through social media. Now you can get direct contact and real insights by testing innovative messages through social media even before you rollout the product, and can tune both your message and the product.

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Social Media Customer Custom Mobile 73

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media.

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Your last two positions Google Photos and United Online were really big companies. What are you working on now?

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2013

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. Change is always hard, so people already on Amazon are not easy convert to another e-commerce system. Overconfidence.

Demand 89

Demand Google Commerce Pricing 89

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2011

We're integrating your CRM with the people visiting your website, much more than Google analytics, telling you exactly who in your database is going to where on your website. Those resellers include customers like chambers of commerce. That kind of data is very difficult to come by.

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Email San Diego Newsletter Startup 240

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. zettabytes by the year 2016.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Cultivate a preferred relationship with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to ensure the best possible placement of your offering. No company has more value control points than Google, which spans advertising, e-commerce, social media, video and mobile, as well as a full suite of hardware products.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency.

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Startup Organization Social Media Customer 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2011

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. Change is always hard, so people already on Amazon are not easy convert to another e-commerce system. Overconfidence.

Startup 90

Startup Demand Google Commerce 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Social media activities require professional effort and time, so beware the hidden costs. Engage your audience with social media.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency.

Organization 93

Organization Social Media Customer Custom 93

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Social Media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

While online services, like Google Translate, are attractive for their speed and low-cost, they will never be as accurate as a professional translator. If you're planning to launch an e-commerce website in a foreign market, local affiliate networks could prove useful in your online marketing mix.

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Marketing Social Media Search Engine Optimization Web 89

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

This will also drive mobile usage and the growth of industries such as e-commerce and fintech, with a focus on streamlining and online task management integration tools supporting business use. As social media becomes a platform for online extremists, valid questions regarding freedom of speech, monitoring and censorship have arisen.

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Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Google followed immediately and introduced Android. Just one year after their respective launches, Apple and Google exceeded one billion app downloads. It is a good thing that there is an app for everything today — work, social media, games, shopping, travel, photography, and schedule of movie screenings.

Mobile 40

Mobile Social Media Google Software Review 40

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. E-Commerce: Nasty Gal. Social Media: Snapchat. From websites to apps, philosophie creates engaging and efficient digital experiences for many different industries.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

When I published This Remote Working Experiment Failed And Succeeded on the Wall Street Journal last year, I had no idea it would generate so much social media attention. He then joined Picasa and was instrumental in its acquisition by Google. A version of this article previously appeared Forbes.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities. It has been reported by Google that 77% of viewers use a companion device while watching TV. People are not simply watching the TV anymore.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Create and manage your social media presence. Master social media marketing.

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