Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” According to a study of 1700 CEOs last year, only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2012

EverySignal said it has created a new service--built on machine learning algorithms and social search software--to help filter out life's most important moments from users' social streams. EverySignal , the latest startup out of startup incubator/studio Science, Inc. officially launched today to tackle that problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” He is not alone, according to a recent study , which concludes that only 47% of companies use social media today for marketing, despite the fact that 78% of executives polled feel it’s critical for success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

billion, now providing identity theft services for nearly 80 million users around the globe. Here are a few specifics on how to be part of the solution, without the costs, rather than part of the problem: Put a personal face and address on your site; don’t hide behind an “info” email address.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

Torrance-based LiveOffice , a provider of email archiving services, announced today that the firm is releasing a new product specifically aimed at archiving social media sites, including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Often this ties to marketing support.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Often this ties to marketing support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Social media connections, if they exist, are buried elsewhere or reserved for monitoring purposes only. Social media is here, and is the preferred mode of communication by a large segment of your customers, so make it a positive differentiator for your business. Guide customers to the right social media channel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

Social media connections, if they exist, are buried elsewhere or reserved for monitoring purposes only. Social media is here, and is the preferred mode of communication by a large segment of your customers, so make it a positive differentiator for your business. Guide customers to the right social media channel.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Social media and email marketing act separately as great marketing tools. While social media offers a continuous interaction with your followers, email marketing is a tool to provide a steady flow of information received directly by your connections. www.BreakThroughNetworking.org.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” According to this study from last year, over 65% of existing small businesses still ignore social media for marketing, so he is still the rule rather than the exception. Start social networking with peers.

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Eric Greenspan

MARCH 1, 2013

Social networks have changed the way we communicate and share ideas. But they are soon to changed they way we buy goods and services. Imagine if you only received emails from companies that offered products and services you want. Well, that time is now and you can help the process.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

At the moment, Conolly heads the startups social media team in Egypt while Turdubaev looks after Russian countries and translation of the site. If they do not have their own website nor money for one – excellent – list your services onProfileTree – its totally free. What is ProfileTree? We help them with this.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Rob Reed: The position of MomentFeed, is that it is essentially a layer in the location based services stack. Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0,

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. We spoke with Allison Dollar, Chief Strategy Officer at the company and member of the founding team, about what the company's service is all about. What is the SnapCuts service?

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Evolving Role of Social Networks for Startups In this talk, Tony traces the evolution of how startups have leveraged social networks and social media as part of their solutions over the past ten years. In this talk, Tony first looks at the landscape of 3rd party services and data.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. Assistly “Multi-channel customer support and management service&# – this is another industry I love and I specifically love the team at Assistly. LendingClub. 24.5mm in Series C.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

Today Chris Jones,Microsoft Windows Live VP has unveiled what he says is a modern email for the next billion mailboxes. He says in a blog post ,” We’ve also been hard at work on a mission to reinvent personal email – from the datacenter all the way to the user experience”. Social Mail. Email is Personal and Mobile.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you. Are people giving you feature requests, complaining about your service or comparing you to the competition? Facebook.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 13, 2014

They have the worst customer service of any company I deal with. If you have an issue renaming or merging a page, you get an email that says “denied.” Can you email them? We are building our lives around this social network and we are dependent upon it for communicating with our friends and colleagues.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 13, 2014

They have the worst customer service of any company I deal with. If you have an issue renaming or merging a page, you get an email that says “denied.” Can you email them? We are building our lives around this social network and we are dependent upon it for communicating with our friends and colleagues.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. People were not just going to Google, they were looking all over the place.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Consumers all have access to social networks, but the business-side has never really caught on. Companies and professionals have a product or service they provide or support.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 6, 2010

Create a separate email address for your online/social media inquiries. With all the Free Email providers out there, chances are, you will be able to find one that meets your needs and expectations. It also allows you to remove your data from these websites. Check out Gmail , Yahoo or Live , for example.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Although Search and Social both matter, Experian Marketing Services recently pointed out that 2013 saw a significant drop in the number of users who accessed social sites from search. In contrast, social networking sites drove a record number of clicks, up 20% over the prior year.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The irony: a sad state that even with the huge number of social network applications we have at our disposal, we’re oftentimes lost, unable to keep up, or still lose touch so easily. It’s not your fault that we can only be social creatures to a certain extent before brain overload.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2019

billion, now providing identity theft services for nearly 5 million consumers in all 50 states. Here are a few specifics on how to be part of the solution, without the costs, rather than part of the problem: Put a personal face and address on your site; don’t hide behind an “info” email address.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

What's the best way to get the word out about your brand on social media? For a number of high profile brands, it's by using the software and services of Los Angeles-based PromoJam (www.promojam.com), which just announced a round of funding to accelerate it efforts last week from Golden Seeds and the Band of Angels.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard Lindzon is CEO and Co-founder of StockTwits (www.stocktwits.com), the financial micro-messaging service. He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

There are others, like LifeLock , who have already built a billion dollar business by providing identity theft services for more than 2 million consumers in all 50 states. Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

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. My co-founder, Michael Steuer and myself both came from Twistbox, which was later acquired by Mandalay Media.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference). The conference, which does not unveil the names of the companies pitching until the day of the event, rolled out a lineup of Southern California companies ranging from email and instant messaging aggregator Orgoo, to virtual avatar firm mEgo.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2017

billion, now providing identity theft services for more than 4 million consumers in all 50 states. Here are a few specifics on how to be part of the solution, without the costs, rather than part of the problem: Put a personal face and address on your site; don’t hide behind an “info” email address.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

Back in December , I informed you of the awesome capabilities of Younity and how utilizing its services can make your digital life easier. Younity, in case you missed the previous article, is a service much like Dropbox but removes the requirement of needing to place your personal data on a third party server.

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