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SocialNetworks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of socialnetworking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of socialnetworks?
I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of socialnetworking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of socialnetworks? And so it goes with socialnetworking.
Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on socialnetworks has performed poorly to date.
Design Challenge In this particular web site, we needed to get the user's email (and password). Mahalo offers you the choice of sign-up / registration via a host of socialnetworks (powered by JanRain). They tell you the other option is to provide your email and password. Email Address. It grabs your email.
At least six, Southern California companies -- Nimble , ParkMe , Quarterly , Beachmint , Chromatik , and Dollar Shave Club -- have been named as one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies list today, a healthy share of the publication's annual look at the best ideas, hottest industries, and innovators.
Commenting on topical blogs is a form of topical socialnetworking in the same way that Quora is. Disqus emails me when somebody puts a comment on the blog or when I put a comment on somebody else’s Disqus blog and if somebody responds to me. I don’t like the idea of pushing my comments into Twitter.
The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. In business you spend your life in email. Increasing this is also migrating to socialnetwork messaging but email is still king.
” The idea here is Subway is listening and if not, they should be and most likely will be soon. Socialnetworks have changed the way we communicate and share ideas. Imagine if you only received emails from companies that offered products and services you want.
Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via socialnetworks. For the first time in history content producers can build a direct relationship with views through subscribers, email addresses and mobile phone number.
The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. If you fold at the first un-returned email what hope to you have as an entrepreneur? You had no idea how important that brand name was until you left it behind.
I wasn’t seeing the feed because the system had no idea I had two accounts (and I had forgot). Email Address Almost every startup wants and needs email as a means of notifying users. In the meantime, I will say that most startups will want to have an email address for users. do not provide access to the email address.
First of all, what's the idea behind StockTwits, for people who haven't used the service? Howard Lindzon: StockTwits is a verticalized community for people to share stock ideas and market ideas, 24/7. We've just added a layer on top of all the socialnetworks particular to finance. It's fun, I guess.
We connect consumers to great content from around the Internet, from socialnetworks, from thousands of branded video channels, and around any particular topic they're interested in. To give you an idea, we're indexing over half a billion social posts every day, and over 5 million new videos every single day.
Then I get people sending me Twitter comments, blog comments and tons & tons of email intros. Be energetic, be very brief, get my contact details (if I don’t have a card ask politely whether you can have my email address to send me a pitch deck) and by all means make sure you follow up. 80% of the people never do.
Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. So, we were toying around with ideas, when the idea behind Bccthis came up. So what's the idea behind Bccthis?
I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Here's an example of that kind of email. Here are some ideas: In your company or other companies. Ask around for ideas on where they hang out.
I created Postcard On The Run because I was excited by the the idea of sharing and creating a keepsake from a mobile device, and making it more than just posting it online. Nowadays, when you post something online, whether that is an image in a gallery or socialnetworking site, it only has a lifespan of just a few seconds.
- Ben Casnocha: The Blog , April 15, 2010 Everyone I spoke with loved the idea. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?
We spoke with Jon Knarreborg , co-founder of Bragstr (www.bragstr.com), a new Los Angeles startup, about how the company's new social game lets you prove your sports knowledge and prediction skills by challenging your friends in a virtual fantasy league, revolving around wagering virtual currency. Where'd the idea for Bragstr come from?
Jenna can write a recommendation on Andy’s profile or send an email to friends recommending Andy, one of his workout plans or the fitness event she’s registered for. David Cohen from TechStars, someone I look up to as an entrepreneur, says that they don’t invest in ideas, but teams. How many users?
Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today.
How excited am I likely to be when I see a plan for a new generation of buggy whip, or another me-too socialnetwork? BUT good ideas are NOT hard to find. Each of the functions is crucial, and each is required to bring the good idea to fruition. There are millions of them out there. That, however, will not be enough.
You would think the obvious thing I would tell somebody is, “yes, of course it’s a great idea.&# You’d be surprised. In this particular case I wasn’t convinced it was a good idea from the limited information I had. A high level of confidence in your own ideas and ability to execute. Very decisive.
These same CEOs sit in their corner offices and email the COO in the next–door office and call their VP of Sales rather than walking down the hall. Email readers, continue here…] We brainstormed with a consultant and each other. The entire company is virtual and all of its team members work from home offices.
That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. This is a concise, well-practiced description of your idea or your startup, delivered with conviction to start a relationship in the time it takes to ride up an elevator. Don’t skip all business social settings.
There are a lot of users, with lots of different email and instant messaging accounts, who are finding that there are too many ways to communicate with their friends and associates. What's the idea behind Orgoo? So you replace Microsoft Outlook, or whatever other email services people are using? Michael Kantor: In fact, it does.
We spoke with Derrick Oien, president and co-founder of the firm, about the company's mobile socialnetworking applications, as well as about his view on penetrating the mobile carriers. What exactly are your mobile socialnetworking applications? The second customer is the socialnetworking sites.
Don’t you wish that someone had prepped you on how to read the body language, interpret office gossip, and when to hit the delete key on your email rather than the send key? Business Email and Texting. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Job Hunting Basics.
We can take all those search results, put them into a spreadsheet, and automatically email it to interested parties. From that, he formulated the idea behind automation, and AutoMate, and founded the company using those lessons he learned. How did the company come about, what was the issue you were trying to solve?
Fascinating idea for a company. We had been looking at the social commerce category, broadly speaking, and I thought that here was an interesting opportunity to fuse together entertainment, gaming, shopping, and socialnetworking online, and that this concept accomplished that incredibly. How does that trading work?
Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. Basically, we've built a platform that allows businesses to build social media promotions across multiple socialnetworks, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Linkedin.
Even when I’m not the one being sued I find myself being dragged into deposition after deposition and my blog (along with all my emails) are being served as evidence. Most ideas are fungible. If you think Facebook, WhatsApp, Google Search, AirBNB, etc are totally “novel” ideas you’re kidding yourself.
So throughout 2006/07 when I had really young kids Facebook was truly a socialnetwork for sharing family moments. So by the time people started using Facebook for more business purposes or general “socialnetworking” in 2010-2015 I really didn’t have any interest. I can spread news.
That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. This is a concise, well-practiced description of your idea or your startup, delivered with conviction to start a relationship in the time it takes to ride up an elevator. Don’t skip all business social settings.
That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. This is a concise, well-practiced description of your idea or your startup, delivered with conviction to start a relationship in the time it takes to ride up an elevator. Don’t skip all business social settings.
The startup has come up with an app now fully integrated with the giant socialnetwork and can be used to comment ,like, tag, browse through events, statuses, comments or swipe through videos as you rank them relevant or unwanted without leaving Facebook. The idea was getting mature and by end of June we had the first version.
Each day Doppels will let you know whose birthday it is within your socialnetwork or local area and offer you a wish, gift or text option. This will bring back some conscious thought to digital gift giving instead of the current non-emotional email that links to a gift card. “We How great is that?!
That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. This is a concise, well-practiced description of your idea or your startup, delivered with conviction to start a relationship in the time it takes to ride up an elevator. Don’t skip all business social settings.
Solaborate is a blend of great socialnetwork platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Consumers all have access to socialnetworks, but the business-side has never really caught on. Labinot Bytyqi: The whole idea came up when I was working in the corporate world.
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That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. This is a concise, well-practiced description of your idea or your startup, delivered with conviction to start a relationship in the time it takes to ride up an elevator. Don’t skip all business social settings.
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Here are some basic principles: Angels invest in people, more often than they invest in ideas. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. Actually numbers and locations are just the beginning. For credibility, they need to know you BEFORE you are asking for money.
Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant socialnetworks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology.
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