InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.".

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Cost per click (CPC).

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked also netted in new customers such as Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital, and Equity Partners, NextView Ventures and crowd-funding service AI Verified which will take advantage of its iPad compatibility, bulk uploading, and reporting tools. he new Bulk Uploading will make transporting entire folder structures secure and frustration free.

Mobile 91

Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. In the online world, you need a solid connection between your domain name and your product, brand, or business.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2012

Every serious investor, on the other hand, has a stack of these in their in-basket (email or real plastic) awaiting review, and is looking for the flaw or less-capable entrepreneur in each that predicts failure, allowing them to discard it like another piece of junk mail. The base plan should be in the 20-page range.

Summary 97

Summary Technical Review .Net Ideas 97

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. Cost per click (CPC).

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Every serious investor, on the other hand, has a stack of these in their in-basket (email or real plastic) awaiting review, and is looking for the flaw or less-capable entrepreneur in each that predicts failure, allowing them to discard it like another piece of junk mail. The base plan should be in the 20-page range.

Summary 97

Summary Technical Review .Net Ideas 97

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Twitter is the new CRM (customer relationship management) channel. Brands in the Facebook world have had to resort to setting up “Fan Pages” and trying to get users to follow them. Are people giving you feature requests, complaining about your service or comparing you to the competition?

Social Network 235

Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We have a great variety of skills in the team from Media, Marketing, Operations, Retail – all very focus on customer service, highlighting a product or brand in the best way for the least amount of money. We are talking to companies now about sponsoring the entire site – so their branding will be throughout each page.

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

So, we created a site which not just aggregates, but also organizes activities by type, category--land, sea, air--and things like competition, family, culture, adrenaline--to really narrow down the possibilities for what you're looking for. The automated part, is a customer fills out a form and buys the product through their shopping cart.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We provide three lines of service, one is called Developer Advice, which is not a common service out there--where customers can have confidential discussions with our architects through a secure forum, so that they're not posting specifics about their customers or projects publicly. They all were very different companies.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

Our most popular product is our Facebook app. Any event or artist can add this to their Facebook page and they can see all the photos and videos from the audience. Our latest product we are excited about is a dashboard that allows you to keep track of your fans. It helps you understand who your fans are and what they do.

Social Media 94

Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

It’s clear things have changed for good and the need for managing remote communities of employees, customers and partners has become ever more important. In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community.

Software 234

Software Startup Tool Platform 234

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

If you look at Google in the way they operate, you have two products, one is called AdWords, one is called AdSense, okay? Because its just not that hyper-competitive, Im-hiring-all-your-staff, because-Im-Google environment. Be extra productive. You dont have the same levels of fast turnover as a starting point, right?

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Originally, you had a lot of government customers, and were just starting out with a few commercial customers. Our strategy was twofold--one, was to go out and get brand name customers, and to translate their content to such a high quality, with no human oversight, that they'd be willing to post that on the internet.

Software Review 145

Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. And if customers, users, partners and employees have a hard time understanding or explaining the idea, then it will eventually fail. Build a SWAT team 3.

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

When I meet with Tom offline it’s obvious that he immediately is thinking about product issues, technology trends, funding rounds, etc. The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. Are there warning signs? (0:26:44).

Angel 302

Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Our Twitter handle has become our identity, on par with an email address. What does that mean? The more missed story is, “Holy shit.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The sign up page for the event is here & there is limited availability. It is intended for product & tech people – mostly people who want to build cool stuff on the Twitter platform and it will showcase some really cool stuff that has been built on Twitter. Historically you are your email address. ” Sure.

News 324

News Web Email Startup 324

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Back then there were “email forwards.”

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210