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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. A creator and producer of social media, Michael’s responsibilities include leadership for the design team, concept creation and strategic consulting for highly engaging interactive experiences.

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Coloft Hackfest And Your Chance At $4K In Cash! All Thanks to BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Enterprise Software sucks, and if you’re an engineer or product designer, we invite you to join this hackathon to reinvent business 2 business software. Co-founder of Yammer, and Geni. Early designer of Paypal. Come by yourself and team up or bring your engineering/product design friends. Sunday August 14th 9am-5pm.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

He obviously believes this since he has become CEO of TopSpin Media – a firm designed to do just that. The tone of the panel was set by David’s announcement that he was relocating to Silicon Valley (and dragging Geni & Yammer with him). Mark Suster, QD3, Brian Solis, Chamillionaire, Ian Rogers, Brian Zisk.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. The company was called Red Beacon. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep!

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!, million Raised. 25 Years of Writing Code.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

socalTECH

Now, you don't have to go to Twitter to listen, LinkedIn to listen, your email inbox, find contacts in Google Contacts, or even Yammer or Hootsuite. CRM systems are designed as management tools, to help people keep a finger on business, and hands on the neck of a salesperson. They are not designed to help develop relationships.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). Sometimes I make a blog entry.