Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

Using social media to increase your company’s touch and reach with each of your customers may be the most important reason to jump in to this game changing strategy. That said, when a customer posts on Facebook that you should lower your prices by 50%, perhaps this is not something you should spend too much time on.

Social Media 214

Social Media Custom Customer Media 214

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. They can iterate and evolve their business idea with a low burn rate and minimal dependencies. On the other hand, your mother probably won’t read one.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 109

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

After you sign up for an account, super easy if you have a Facebook account, you are taken to a page with available lounges for you to view video. You can also create your own lounge. Everything from hip hop music videos to entertainment news and gossip, there is sure to be a lounge to suit your taste.

Content 74

Content Conference News Social Network 74

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. Many people go back with lots of new ideas, experience, and energy.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Instead of following a proscribed course which may lead nowhere, entrepreneurial leaders such a Thiel are sparking a change in the way we think about success. For most of us, though, the idea of investors or even securing financing may as well go the way of the corporate ladder. Your mortgage and grocery bill depend on it.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

TZ: In our last interview you said that you were about 25% at capacity of your original vision for Miigle. A year and a half later and post-public launch, at what capacity do you think Miigle is today of your original vision? Once you have logged in to your Miigle account, the first step is editing your profile.

SoCal 104

SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

It’s also a great way to build relationships with people interested in your topic area. Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. How to find your “voice&# ? Be authentic.

Blogging 286

Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. So what’s exciting about this new product? Here’s a guide on how to upload and create your own filter. This product is literally too good to pass up. The list goes on.

Custom 40

Custom Customer Snapchat Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

“You don’t mentally process how much you’re under stress because of your personality but your body still perceives the stress. So while you’re mind feels calm, your body is becoming a mess. That stress – plus your unhealthy eating and lifestyle – have given you acid reflux.”

Tips 150

Tips Startup Help Mobile 150

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

At the same time it’s been getting easier and easier to use the identity of choice at your favorite social media site to establish an identity and log in using OpenID or Facebook Connect. Tired of the day-long round-robin between your e-mail, SMS, Twitter, Facebook, and any other services you use to keep up with what’s going on?

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on. So get over it.

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate. Of course we all had the Utopian view as technologists often do but the laws of unintended consequences takes over. For example, one product alone — Tasty — is consumed by 500 million people per month.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210