Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I was the original investor and helped to grow GameSpy Industries, attracted to the fledgling company because of its million users each month, even though at the time there was no monetization to the traffic. And yet, users rave about the service, and spend long durations of time on the site. How about charging by the bite (not byte)?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Tell me about the business. What special data, content, APIs, etc. Which devices?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Tell me about the business. What special data, content, APIs, etc. Which devices?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 300 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. Recently I was reviewing a book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. Content is a “hits-driven” business that makes it unattractive to investors – remember? Content goes global (of Maker Studios 4.4 Content goes global (of Maker Studios 4.4

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 50 million other new websites created every year, and attract the customers you need. Recently I was reviewing a new book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. They can use Stem as a platform to distribute that content. How does that work?

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

We try to make it very easy for the average consumer to get more financial information, content, and ultimately, product, in the financial industry. We wanted to make the topics, information, and content relevant to people as they came into the ecosystem. What kind of financial products are you talking about? What is Stackin'?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2016

According to Wpromote, it will offer up a select group of nonprofits and charities with a day long event next week, Wprobono: Digital Day in LA, to help them learn about paid and earned social media, content marketing, email marketing, SEO, paid search, and more.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

To address that disaster, Ken Button and Randy Bishop�two veterans of the startup industry�created ContractSafe (www.contractsafe.com), a new online service aimed at helping companies to tame that mess and manage and store their contracts in the cloud. Why is this needed by companies? So how'd you end up starting the company?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The firm has created a tool which uses software and semantic search to help in the whole process of curating content. We spoke with Matt Kumin , the company's founder and CEO--who was formerly an executive at Edmunds.com--to learn about the company's products. What's your background, and what is PublishThis all about?

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Learn about strategies and secure network solutions that can protect tech startups against the most common types of cyberattacks. . Phishing attacks are attempts by a malicious attacker to get the end-user of a message or email to provide sensitive information. Those incidents took several forms: . were phishing attacks.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Explain what you mean about branding in the employment area? Robin Richards: Brand amplification and brand protection are critical to companies, in helping them attract and retain employees. Essentially, we've taken a portion of our outplacement content, and put it on the front end, and saidthis is complimentary for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. But aside from choosing the time of day to focus on signal vs. noise, Brad’s post got me thinking about another question – what is signal and what is noise? They could chat about it with their peers or mentors.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Before jumping into the post I wanted to point out one thing about doing TWiVC and posting my notes here on BSOTT. 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. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Pasadena-based Smartify (www.getsmartify.com)''s CEO, Carla Bourque , recently talked to us about the company''s online marketing platform, and how it differentiates itself from a lot of other competitors in the market. We can help brands achieve, on average, conversions that are 10 times higher than the industry. What is Smartify?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In the best cases boards come together to help the company get through its trough?—?in Can we help them get along? We do lunch where everybody has a casual conversation followed by 6 hours of content and discussion. Be thoughtful about their skills and motives. Be thoughtful about what you hope to achieve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Every business leader I know is overloaded with data these days, with a wealth of new business tools, social media channels, and countless emails and text messages. As a consultant, I often get asked for help in mining all this data and using it for long-term success in their business. I suggest visual frameworks you can create today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Badly written letters, long rambling or emotional emails, or an obvious lack of spell checking will brand you as a poor business risk before the message is even considered. Think about the conclusions you'd like your readers to reach by the time they finish your writing. We both lose when that happens.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

We’ve all sat through a meeting and thought to ourselves, “This could have been covered in an email.” You can also check in with team members via messaging apps, such as Slack or Microsoft Teams, about the status of projects and ask if anyone needs help instead of scheduling a formal meeting about it. .

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

One of them is online music events site Loudvine (www.loudvine.com), which was co-founded by Vic Caretti , who gave us the scoop on what the site is all about. The genesis of this, is it's all about the music. At the end of the day, it's something we've built for the artist, which helps them connect with people in local cities.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. One of the things I like about this business, is it doesn't require a big organization.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Tell us more about Highland Capital (14:30 – 16:30). 5:00 – 5:55).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product. Well think about where you spend your time on your various computing devices? For me, my number one application is email. Well likely it’s email.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the almost 300 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. A good start is a classic book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

I aspired to rise above the noise by putting out insightful content with a frequency that kept people coming back to check in directly on my website. I can my feed on my iPhone constantly, looking for interesting stories or just to hear what friends are talking about. I’ve talked to Fred about this over the years.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

We also talked about getting more young African Americans interested in entrepreneurship & technology. It made me confident about what would work. In his early career he realized the importance of email lists. His email list became his power. “All the failures that people get so scared of is what I did.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

I’ve written about the “elevator” pitch before. You can’t help but lean forward and want to hear what the next line is. People read magazines for a reason and it’s a combination of focused content and beautiful images. With Sam we could have then switched to talking about the Lakers and he would have achieved his objective.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. They need a stronger campaign about consumption rather than sending Tweets. That’s Twitter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2015

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. Luckily, the basic principles for reputation management are the same for both business and personal environments: Actively monitor what people are saying about you.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For how to market your blog in order to get site visitors I suggest checking out the Marketing Show and if you can attend the next Pub Con it is one the best conferences to learn about getting web traffic. One of the hardest things about being a blogger is drawing that line between being a business owner and writing for passion.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

I was the original investor and helped to grow GameSpy Industries, attracted to the fledgling company because of its million users each month, even though at the time there was no monetization to the traffic. Email readers, continue here.] And yet, users rave about the service, and spend long durations of time on the site.

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Metrics Sites Advertising Web 207

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

We talked with Scott--who until recently, was a student at the University of Southern California--about how he created his company and how that investment from Branson pushed him to take his startup full time. Scott Ferreira: MySocialCloud helps user manage their online life, through three tools. First off, what is MySocialCloud?

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