socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

We thought we'd talk with Chris about what Jetpack is up to. The HTML5 platform that we use is also available as a self service tool to customers. Can you explain exactly what is different about your ads? We offer up customers a high impact creative which is not bounded by the box. What is Jetpack, and what do you do?

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Buzznet Outsource Development Design HTML 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Jonah was working on his masters thesis and he asked Nike to produce a customized shoe with the word “Sweatshop” on it. This had an impact on the 2008 election where apparently groups of DIGG publishers would promote positive stories about Obama and negative stories about Hillary Clinton (sound familiar?).

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He’s right about this. Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. When asked what their objectives are they cite some form of “improving customer communications” by a long margin. But only temporarily in my view. Sound familiar?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. He had a few early customers ready to go. It's about creation. Have you done all you can on paper?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Find A Concept You Are Passionate About. Mark admitted that one of the mistakes he made early in his career was pursuing a business concept about which he was not passionate. We didn’t even think about how we were going to answer calls… or how we were going to respond to everybody. Winning customers is sales.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. He had a few early customers ready to go. It's about creation. Have you done all you can on paper?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. Can you talk a bit about your prior background? How did the incubation part come about?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. 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. Normally the product is defined as a web site.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

Some used Java, Ruby, jQuery while others used PHP, HTML, and CSS. As the judging went on, everyone took the time to chat amongst themselves about their projects, experience at the event, and waited in anticipation of who would get the big check for $3000. Development languages varied from team to team. Product Design. Development.

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Santa Monica Startup PHP HTML 90

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

How do you sort through all that social media activity you are driving, and figure out who really cares about what you're posting? Mark Sylvester sat down with us to talk about the new project, and how it's applying what they've learned building their visual analysis tools to the world of Facebook and social media.

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Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? .&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. But what is magic about Twitter is that it is real time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Search engines like Google depend on website HTML tags, inbound and outbound links, and relevant content to do its ranking and matchmaking, and hopefully get your company found and near the top of customer search requests. These are HTML tags naming each page, which should contain one to three of your keywords.

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SEO HTML Search Engine Optimization Web 48

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

I know it sounds crazy because you’re talking about friends or colleagues here. I’m reluctant to put it into writing because people get so passionate about this issue and many disagree. Putting your thoughts into spreadsheets, PowerPoint, HTML, etc. Get customer input. And you’re probably right.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Remind me about your background. Oh, and I forget to mention in my introduction about B2B. We came up with a positioning strategy that helps them sell value-added when recession-pinched customers are squeezing them for low rates. Maybe you can blog about that? It has been fun to get to know her again.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. So if you’re casually reading and don’t really care about angel financing – abort now! That’s OK.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

But you can get to this new level of understanding when you integrate that data back together and that’s what Cojoin is all about. We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. Where did the idea come about in the first place? What about the good times?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

But I’m not going to talk about increasing Wordpress speed, I want to show you how to improve you page load speed by cutting down on the number of external scripts you’re loading on a particular page. You’re about halfway there but the next few steps differ depending on what platform your site uses. Though a Bit.ly

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Im just saying this so that youdont get your hopes too high about what you can actually achieve. When you block by IP address, you may end up blocking an entire internet provider, and thus a lot of realusers and potential customers. You can read more about how to subscribe toRSS site feeds from my RSS FAQ.

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