Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. They were rapidly innovating and involving customers.

Entrepreneur 291

Entrepreneur Startup Google Yammer 291

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

introNetworks is still going strong and has some of the biggest customers in the world, like NASA and McCann World Group. Every good entrepreneur dreams really big, and we're planning on having 1 percent of 37 million brands on our platform. Socialtech is an enterprise wiki, social business platform in Palo Alto.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool HTML 203

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

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. First, you’ll need a platform. The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. I use awe.sm.

Blogging 286

Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. The problem with most of the share badges out there is that they load a Javascript file from an external source which can take several seconds on a bad day. Though a Bit.ly

JavaScript 29

JavaScript RSS HTML Doc 29

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

Microsoft SharePoint is a collaboration platform, typically hosted by an IT department. A site like the New York Times, which might 10-12 seconds to load because it has so many graphics and Javascript to pull down, our caching technology transparently accelerates that using the capability of your hard drive. You can get it for free.

SaaS 127

SaaS Web Google Sites 127

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. In the same year Salesforce.com launched a SaaS CRM platform to compete with Siebel. You have a data problem.

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

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