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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. We sat down with David to catch up on what Geni and Yammer are doing, plus got his insights into entrepreneurship and the Paypal mystique.

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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

We collaborate using Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Yammer, Skype, GoToMeeting, Fuze and hundreds of other tools not available to the last generation of whiteboard, personal meeting or teleconference users. We are in the “age of recommendation” Already, 69% of consumers research their product, service and guest stay decisions online.

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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. We''ve created a really simple product, which is simple to deploy, simple to administer, looks and feels like SMS, and works like an app over the top, and has al the features and capabilities to unlock lots of utility to someone.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. I know the product intimately and it rocks. The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. In business you spend your life in email.

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8 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Lead With New Work Models

Startup Professionals Musings

Reward shorter hours of high productivity. Peer pressure keeps productivity standards high. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. People who get paid by results have every incentive to think up smarter ways of getting work done.

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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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