InfoChachkie

APRIL 18, 2011

Remember all those terrible MySpace self-portraits? The MySpace teens liked the photos, in part, because they showed the mirror image of themselves which matched the adolescents’ self-images. . One way to avoid this is to solicit examples, which illustrate critiques, and not allow reviewers to make unsubstantiated, negative statements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and the fading MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

No business or startup wants to be the next Myspace, or even the next RIM (BlackBerry), where changes in the marketplace were subtle. For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

For example, if your decision maker is a senior business leader, you need to transform your message so that it addresses the issues that senior business leaders have as priorities. And the mention of MySpace would raise some vague fears of their granddaughter being accosted through the Internet. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

event socaltech50 awards entrepreneur entrepreneurship feature dfr2013' There are also many movers and shakers here in the industry -- Jason Nazar at. Docstoc, Ken Rutkowski of MeTAL, Mark Suster of Upfront, Jason Calacanis of Mahalo--but we had to pass them up, too, in favor of some of the new folks to the scene.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and MySpace is for tweens and creative types.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2010

The measure of an entrepreneur used to be the number of real friends claimed, but times have changed. The first search turned up a MySpace page. It doesn’t take much imagination to extend this example into your own business world, with potential customers and business associates checking you out. She googled each person's name.

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Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

Take for example, the public’s quick acceptance of Facebook, Zinga, Mixi, and other social networking portals, leaving early leader MySpace wondering what happened to their comfortable lead and large fan base. The answer is simple, but somehow out of reach for most senior executives and entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2013

There''s been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to help entrepreneurs start and fund their companies. But, how successful have they been? Science Inc.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Down here, we have Allyson Pizula, who was at MySpace, and was there for a number of years before going to Adconion. Tony Adam is an advisor, he was formerly at MySpace. The example, is as CEO I am obviously much more externally focused, on strategy, fundraising, and business side issues. Obviously, Prism is a great example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2013

No business or startup wants to be the next Myspace, or even the next RIM (BlackBerry), where changes in the marketplace were subtle. For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. I like to repeat the mantra, “necessity is the mother of all invention,&# meaning that because investors have this expectation you find entrepreneurs that focus on nearer term monetization.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. We last talked with Michael Jones, CEO of MySpace. Great entrepreneurs are a force of nature.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. From the local wins you get pools of money from tech entrepreneurs and investors eager to reinvest it back into the community – the most likely source of a return on their capital. LA has the annual Monty Conference.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

Example: I was recently in China and had three public appearances. I wrote out 3 pages of bullet point notes on paper and delivered a 20-minute speech to a crowd of entrepreneurs (which included the Minister of Technology for China). Here’s an example where good behavior leads to higher results. I couldn’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2015

Some of you may remember MySpace , which came early to social media, but lost the lead to Facebook by evolving too slowly, many analysts say. Other examples often mentioned include Hashable and MapQuest. Smart entrepreneurs focus on turning emergencies into the next opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

For example, if your investor has been a senior business leader, you need to transform your message so that it addresses the issues that senior business leaders have experienced as priorities. And the mention of MySpace would raise some vague fears of their granddaughter being accosted through the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2017

No business or startup wants to be the next Myspace, or even the next RIM (BlackBerry), where changes in the marketplace were subtle. For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

For example, you might have people check in five times, and the sixth time their crew might be able to get in for free. I connected those two about three years ago--back when MySpace was actually MySpace, and Facebook was Facebook. Restaurants do a great job at this, but nightclubs don't. The idea was born in Vegas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Myspace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon crashed. business entrepreneur growth profitable startup sustainable' When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

In November, Michael Jones, the former CEO of MySpace, announced his plans for Science Inc. For example, if you know the show Entourage, we've got Vinny Chase's house, to post and beam modern castles in the Hollywood Hills.What's amazing, is you rent Vinny Chase's Spanish mansion for only $2000 to $3000 a day for an event.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur. Finally, for entrepreneurs, what's the best way to approach you--email, Twitter, Facebook?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2011

Here is my perspective on a few of them: MySpace is for tweens, forget it. The third biggest site (just passed by Twitter) is MySpace, with about 95 million unique visitors per month. They have groups for business and entrepreneurs, but the culture is primarily teen and pre-teen. It’s not all about numbers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2011

The measure of an entrepreneur used to be the number of real friends claimed, but times have changed. The first search turned up a MySpace page. It doesn’t take much imagination to extend this example into your own business world, with potential customers and business associates checking you out. She googled each person's name.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

” It’s like you hear about “mafia’s” of PayPal, Facebook, MySpace, Salesforce, etc. Here’s just one example post featuring the wisdom I learned from Stuart about negotiations. This isn’t just to save on recruiting fees – it’s also about “getting the band back together.”

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

We also have a mobile platform, which integrates with Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. Amanda MacNaughton: An example of this is we powered a promotion for Rock the Vote, a big campaign for them. Matt MacNaughton: Our mantra, is to reach social media users everywhere.

Social Media 217

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and the fading MySpace is for tweens and creative types.

Social Media 95

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. MySpace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon faded. Sure, you may need to give the product away for free to get traction, but assume you will have to sell something someday to get profitable and stay alive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school. There is no free lunch.

Social Media 100

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2010

Alon Goren; I worked for a couple of years at MySpace, doing customer support and QA, and stuff like that, doing my time and working my way up. We also have the ability to license out our platform, for example if socalTECH wanted a tech company version, we could provide a tech company version of the site. What's next for the company?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Jay Samit: We deal with people on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, and have a huge number of social games within those communities and using us directly. For example, if I lived in a small town somewhere, how would I get Kraft or Toyota or Coke to support my dog shelter? What social media sites do you connect with? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

Scott Chisolm: The software came about, when we realized we had totally outgrown the system we were using to take registration for the events and to allow attendees to make donation, which was a combination of Evite, Paypal, and Myspace. What was your background before you started the company? Finally, what's next for you?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

For example, if you wanted to travel somewhere, such as Paris, at Christmas, you can see who else is going at the same time. At the time, there were lots of social networking sites, like Facebook and MySpace, but there weren't any sites based on travel. We launched on MySpace a few months after that, and it was very, very popular.

Startup 100

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

They can contribute content, contribute their edits, remix video, work together as groups, and then send that content across the web to Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, or their own website. Tom Grasty: For example, we hadn't originally conceived using it as a white label product for corporate branding. What sort of applications are those?

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. Tags: entrepreneur startup networking social twitter irvine patterson ruan george quub itnerview.

Startup 100

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. There's also a similar, review of dogs, so a host can say, for examplethis dog barks a lot, so maybe you shouldn't book that dog if your neighbor complains. We spoke to Aaron about the company. Can you explain how DogVacay works?

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