Companies Customer Social Network Yammer 
SoCal CTO
MAY 15, 2009
Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies?
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 27, 2012
By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. “In order to create a successful new company, you have to find an idea that. (1) How many ideas like that are left?”
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APRIL 21, 2010
In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t. The build “implicit social networks.&#
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JULY 29, 2010
I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. Down rounds are psychologically really difficult on companies and can make it harder to do later rounds. In the video I also covered why you shouldn’t raise too much money too early in your company’s existence. I eventually needed more money.
socalTECH
JUNE 21, 2011
He's again set his sights on contact management with a new company, based in Santa Monica, called Nimble (www.nimble.com). Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today. That is relationship nirvana, my vision of social business.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 22, 2011
But one theme in pervasive in all my thinking about investing in Internet-based companies: Deflationary economics. Initially their only customers are people who can get by on the reduced functionality or perhaps don’t have the money to spend on the expensive product. Here’s what I mean. It’s remarkable. Innovator’s Dilemma.
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DECEMBER 9, 2010
dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Think about it.
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