Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you.

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JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. Personalize a simple web site.

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JULY 7, 2010

Rumored to be prepping for an IPO, just inked a deal to launch a new beauty and fashion site with Tyra Banks. They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud.

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MAY 11, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. Jody Sherman: We are a site for eco-conscious, health minded parents. We help them identify products that are safe and health for them and their families, from organic baby food, to household items.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via PayPal or credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2013 , or fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe.

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MARCH 19, 2009

Venice, California-based Topspin , a developer of software focused on helping musicians market and distribute their work, launched an upgrade to its product Wednesday at the SXSW festival. The company has previously rolled out the software in a limited released with David Byrne and Brian Eno, among others.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

million new users and 22 million unique page views to its clients’ sites as a result of its effective campaign execution. According to Kyla Brennan, founder & CEO of HelloSociety, “Pinterest is undeniably one of the most exciting social networks to emerge recently.”. million followers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. They help you built insights into whom you connect with the most via email or whom you haven’t contacted in a long time. The build “implicit social networks.&# SendGrid helps improve delivery. Enter Xobni.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2016

Social networking continues to be a superior force in marketing, especially Facebook. percent of all social network ad spending worldwide. How can your company best benefit from social networking ads in 2016? How can your company best benefit from social networking ads in 2016? That was $15.5

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MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Stribe offers a plug and play service for instantly creating a social network on any Web site. The other promising startups included: Zoomorama - a zooming application that digs into the details of a site, increasing engagement and conversion rates. The company's main target is e-commerce sites with rich media.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

What we’re doing at Meebo is trying to socially enable websites by allowing them to immediately get not only the social graph information but to do useful stuff with it. Over time we’ll continue to build out the applications – helping make the entire web more social.&#. They help make rational decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2012

I see many startups who seem satisfied with a “me too” approach, building yet another social network or e-commerce site, rather than being truly innovative. This is a good thing for entrepreneurs and investors, who can win big, but it’s not a given. Mechanisms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2011

I see many startups who seem satisfied with a “me too” approach, building yet another social network or e-commerce site, rather than being truly innovative. This is a good thing for entrepreneurs and investors, who can win big, but it’s not a given. Mechanisms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Many of the investors and entrepreneurs I know still don’t realize that they need to use and understand the Internet, even if their business is not e-commerce. Social networks. They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Internet radio.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based Tibesti (www.tibesti.com) is launching its new social shopping site this morning. Mike Hale: The whole concept behind Tibesti, is we really want to transform ecommerce into "we" commerce. Mike Hale: The whole concept behind Tibesti, is we really want to transform ecommerce into "we" commerce.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Sara has also worked in department coordinating/management, accounting, and talent recruitment on such films as Social Network, Water for Elephants, In Time, Snow White and the Huntsman, Dark Shadows, as well as in the finance department at Sony Pictures. How to Plan Your Production: Need help producing your web series?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew Graczyk is founder of angel-backed Zubican (www.zubican.com)--saw a problem, which was the difficulty of finding suppliers for products for businesses--and decided to solve the problem, with a site specifically targeted at helping B2B buyers and sellers connect. It's a full-blown, B2B social network.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Suddenly, maintaining a company website and a social media account is no longer enough. Through mobile e-commerce apps, businesses give information, engage with customers, and ultimately build a stronger brand. This will help your users find you easier and help you rank better in downloads.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Everybody is Selling Something: The Arrival of "Me-Commerce".

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2017

If you have more money than the incumbents, try it, but don’t look for investor help. Yet another social networking site. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name, which they claim is just the more notable existing social networking sites. The ultimate online dating site.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Competition: Gilt Groupe , Ideeli , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , OneKingsLane , department stores like Saks and Neiman Marcus. TechCrunch article. Total raised: $56.3mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Finally, DataSift has an enormous about of historical data already stored we we can help you go back and retrieve some older data for analytical purposes. As a former hedge fund guy, Roger immediately saw the value in helping companies better sift through the masses of data; often to gain better insights into financial information.

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