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Interview with David Sacks, Geni and Yammer

socalTECH

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. Most social networking sites have a problem with having lots of pageviews, but advertising that isn't very valuable.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc.

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

socalTECH

That''s why people tend to gravitate towards SMS messages, rather than something like email. You can administrate policies around lifespan, so that all messages expire after some amount of time on a mobile device, you can de-provision people if they leave the network, and you can even PIN lock it at the app level.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

socalTECH

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. CRM systems today don't do a good job of even integrating email, much less social. You have to BCC messages to even get them into the system.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

5: Q: “What’s the best way to get a VC’s attention in an email&# – I’ve written about this topic so more in depth is here on How to Access a VC as well as I Emailed a VC and Never Heard Back – What Now? Second – don’t send unsolicited emails to VCs. Minutes 18.30 – 26.30.

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10 Apps & Tools for Maximizing Personal Efficiency

Frank Addante

Sanebox (Email Organization) : Service that uses algorithms to organize your email into what’s important and what’s not. YouMail (Voicemail Automation): Voicemail service that transcribes your voicemail into text and sends you an email and/or text message. It works amazing well. Tips: Trust it.

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

SoCal CTO

A great opportunity for more visible networking. A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth.