Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

With the advent of social media and the pervasive move to smartphones, even customers who still prefer to purchase in brick-and-mortar stores have dramatically changed their shopping habits. Many people don’t post about their experiences, but still routinely check first to see what others are saying about the brand and the product online.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

We recently ran into Chris Tragos , one of the co-founders of Jetpack (www.jetpack.net), provider of an online ad platform. Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. What is Jetpack, and what do you do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. Remember that your goal is to build a successful business, and customers are in control of making that happen.

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JULY 5, 2012

Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers. <JG change the link in first sentence to the infoChachkie post> As noted in YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks. <JG

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne: FEM is a video discovery platform that provides quality, relevant video recommendations for any website, app, or content network that is seeking to drive more engagement around video. I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. What is FEM?

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JUNE 2, 2021

I like the summary of the competitive reality in a new book, “ Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age ,” by Ram Charan, who relates a wealth of current experience from global clients: Customers expect a personalized experience. Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

San Diego-based ShowUhow , which develops video-based sales and product information for online retailers and manufacturers, said today that it has added a suite of social media integration features for the firm's offering. ShowUhow is venture backed by Syncom Ventures, and raised a round of capital back in August.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Irvine-based Local.com , the online operator of local search advertising sites, said today that it has suspended its acquisition of LEC-billed subscribers, and will focus on providing its own, credit-card local business product, Exact Match. Local.com said it will instead focus on traditional local business products, charged at $1795.00

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JANUARY 17, 2013

It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. The platform can be divided into three products.

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MARCH 1, 2013

From a marketing marketing perspective, that allows filmmakers to quickly and easily promote their films through social media and build a fan base, and incentivize fans to support their films by offering access to exclusive content, livestream video chats, and production updates, as an example. Why is this important to filmmakers?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Having done lots of those, I realized that there was a really great opportunity, from the standpoint of harnessing the higher quality in streaming platforms. We had used partners like Ustream and Livestream for our streaming platforms, and they're fantastic, both from the insights and capabilities for user generated streaming.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

For today's interview, we sat down and talked with Mike Whitmire , the CEO and Co-founder of Los Angeles-based FloQast (www.floqast.com), a developer of financial close management software for enterprise accounting. He said, this is great, and said they were really interested in getting more enterprise customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Start building your customer community early.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. How far is the product?

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APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. On average the platform is generating 30+% increase in conversions and 15% decrease in cost per lead.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 18, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SteelHouse’s Behavioral Commerce platform increases online conversions via targeted incentives based on shopper personality and behavior. 4) Did I read correctly that you were part of the original development team for Oracle Financials? You can watch the video below or on YouTube here: [link].

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APRIL 22, 2016

We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Modern Social Networking.

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JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. Allison Dollar: SnapCuts is a digital media marketing platform, which uses social video messaging. For a receiver, the receiving page on SnapCuts can also be branded or skinned.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. It’s core platform stuff.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

Wondering how, as a small business, you can reach customers in the YouTube age? Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. What is Near Networks?

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JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. Who do you view as your biggest competition?

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. Social networking is peaking.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. In many ways that might be one way to interpret even Facebook where Sheryl stepped in as COO but by all accounts ran much of Facebook for a few years (other than product). Much less has been said about when the technical CEO is the best person to run the company.

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MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? I am a VC.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I wasn’t feeling it.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. People like free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

million new pages added to the Internet every day, the biggest challenge for every entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. Cultivate early customers. Find potential partners.

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APRIL 21, 2010

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. Knewton – “Online adaptive test prep and virtual classroom platform&# - I love the innovation that is coming from the test prep industry. They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Despite the benefits of developing an app, there are valid reasons why retailers choose not to invest in one. Developing a mobile app can be extremely expensive and some retailers believe it is futile to spend that money if a mobile-optimized site is already in place. MYTH: Development costs are too high.

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AUGUST 2, 2009

Twitter is the new CRM (customer relationship management) channel. Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. Brands in the Facebook world have had to resort to setting up “Fan Pages” and trying to get users to follow them. So why is this important for businesses?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. If you look at the career sites and pages out there right now, they look like they were built a decade ago. Among those is accessibility of the product.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

It is the latest product in the digital lifestyle segment. Why have you chosen the iOS platform before the Android platform? AT: The iOS platform was a great place to start to get our app going. AT: The iOS platform was a great place to start to get our app going. Again, we developed this to make life easier.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Webdoc is a web platform that allows you to easily create interactive posts mixing different web contents through a simple and intuitive drag & drop interface. We really have an amazing team of developers and designers with over 6 nationalities. Give Us the Fast Pitch. What made you decide to begin working on Webdoc?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

After college Brandon put forth his knowledge of business to work and built his first company and the platform for his future business venutres, Audiolife – a direct-to-consumer eCommerce company. GoodThreads goes the extra step with the ability to integrate product purchases on event registration and fund raising pages.

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JUNE 13, 2013

James DeJulio: We''re a social content development platform. We work with really big businesses and brands, everyone from P&G to Lego, Mattel to NASA, to develop mostly video content. This creates a big, diverse pool of ideas, and the client can then find the three, four, or five top ideas they want to see developed.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. It allows users to code, develop, brainstorm, communicate and then publish projects and files to your web server. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. No more hassles with backups and syncing your laptop with your desktop. to 11:00 p.m.

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