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Social Media Week Lands in Los Angeles Sept. 24-28

Tech Zulu Event

Social Media Week (SMW) helps organizations connect and share the latest social media findings through social, cultural and economic talks and workshops in major cities worldwide. A City of Angels: How Social Media is Bringing LA Closer to Utopia. Social Media and Urban Development in Hollywood.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

We then had a piece in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Europe, we ran front cover of Tornado Insider (the top VC magazine in Europe at the time). We instructed customers about how eCommerce was going to change their future. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today).

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Social Search – What Entrepreneur Needs To Know

InfoChachkie

Clearly there is a shift occurring in users'' behavior, as social networks continue to hone their product discovery and purchase capabilities. As noted in this recent Wall Street Journal article, Google has begun requesting that merchants include rating and review data to ensure that the efficacy of their search results.

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SoCal Heads to SXSWi | 2012 Panel Picking Guide

Tech Zulu Event

Journalism: How to Talk to Your Audience Again. Strategy to Get Your First 100 Paying Customers (bigMETHOD, Mixergy, Appsumo, Zaarly). Social Media: My Social Community is Bigger than Michael Jordan. Merge Offline/Online Networks for Startup Success. Can Newspapers Appeal to a Younger Audience.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV).

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. So while you get the benefits of recruiting, being on VC radars and customer legitimacy there are also downsides. That used to be the standard.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies? What are the risks and rewards?