socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). So, by pushing these job opportunities quickly to people, through a text, or email, as they occur, they have the opportunity to take their resume and quickly go to the top of the pile. If you're not quick you're not there.

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Content Social Network Coach Help 193

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. So, it's quite new.

SaaS 113

SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. But before I sent it I had made 10 private phone calls, sent emails & built support. It worked like a charm. I appreciate it.

Startup 292

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.”

Media 55

Media Social Media Startup Training 55

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.”

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Press Social Media Startup Training 105

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. I’m now back & ready for action.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.” Make every interview memorable.

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Training Media Entrepreneur Social Media 93

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Jason Reid , CEO and Co-founder of Giftagram (www.giftagram.com), which announced a $3.2M How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. How does Giftagram work?

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Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I suffer from the “urgency addiction.&# I know it sounds like one of the falsely humble things like telling somebody in a job interview that your weakness is that you’re too much of a perfectionist. It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. I’m not. It’s hard to hide.

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Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

We have six key categories of what we do. The second, is we provide fulfillment services, such as product shipments. The fifth is product photography--we actually have an in-house photo studio, including doing things like Photoshop and color correction. The business model works for other industries as well.

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Venture Capital SEM Commerce Email 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview. The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Yeah, my email address is Brad@Feld.com. Distribution.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

To understand why investors are finding the firm so interesting, and why the company raised such a large round, we spoke with Adam Bernhard , CEO of the firm, about the company and funding, how email has allowed the firm to get past the "Google trap" of marketing on the web, and where the firm is going. Adam, thanks for the time.

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Sales Email Startup Sample 224

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We help them identify products that are safe and health for them and their families, from organic baby food, to household items. We do deep research on every single product we advocate for, using the criteria and condition that they create a healthy child and a healthy world. They had a store, but weren't selling much.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. We've really set out to solve the problem we saw, which is a vast category of travel information which is not aggregated well on the web.

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Activity Startup Sites Web 164

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Eden Jarrin, the President of Los Angeles-based eDivvy (www.edivvy.com). Really soon you'll see we'll be editorializing products and helping people to choose gifts in a category an dhow to pick the right gifts. A customized email then goes out, and you're done.

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Startup Evite Organization Case Study 113

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 24, 2014

And for every need and aspect that people are searching for, there’s a niche and sub-category to match the need (religion, orientation, “special” interests, etc.) <– This too can get pretty hilarious. Today, we have a narrative interview with Mehrdad Sarlak, creator and founder of CupidRadar.

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Startup Mobile Ideas Activity 108

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We also provide production support, and we're also very proactive in monitoring items that might affect them, supporting the specific versions of software they are running. Our open source powers Hadoop, Jetty powers Google--if you look at our community site, the list of products that use use is exhaustive.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Idea Mensch. where entrepreneurs share their stories.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Selecting value-added angel investors and advisors can also help with the camaraderie issue, as they can provide advice and counsel during the solitary period of hard-core coding and product development. By the time this point has been reached, the focus has ceased to be the technology and the product, but on organization.

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