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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies?

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

Investors: TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s investment vehicle; Court Coursey joining board), CompuCredit Holdings, with existing investors Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Omidyar Network, QED Investors, Volition Capital. And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. Enter Xobni.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

socalTECH

What Nimble is, is a web-based solution that unified contact, calendar, and the way you communicate with those people, which also integrates social listening and engagement, all in a single place, so you can attract and retain the right customers. CRM systems today don't do a good job of even integrating email, much less social.

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Socially connected individuals and platforms that enable faster roll-outs of successful products. Initially their only customers are people who can get by on the reduced functionality or perhaps don’t have the money to spend on the expensive product. We still won large customers but over time it became harder to compete.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. Many of the biggest customers wanted to be able to physically walk through our data center – how could I give up something so strategic? Cloud Data Platform. I was dead set against it. Think about it. Business Logic.

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