Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 30, 2011

Google, they’ve cracked a nut here. With Wave being an experiment, and Buzz being a dead duck from the get go, Google Plus (Google+) is actually a usable, integrated, complete-feeling product released this week, and it’s pretty damn good. Now, there’s Google+. Holy cow is Google+ fast and responsive.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? Here's a classic example that illustrates the issue - the sign-up page from Mahalo. We also can get access to their social graph.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Set a personal example with visible, memorable symbols and behavior. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage. Don’t be afraid to pivot, and commit to new objectives with as much passion and energy as the original.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Get familiar with current social media tools, such as Google Analytics, Kissmetrics, and HootSuite analytics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2010

Now the measure is how many hits one has on a Google name search, factored by some formula, like the sum of all positive messages minus 100 for every negative message. That’s the reason every good parent should be coaching their child from birth to avoid posting all the naughty things on social networks that can come back to haunt them later.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In contrast, social networking sites drove a record number of clicks, up 20% over the prior year. Clearly there is a shift occurring in users'' behavior, as social networks continue to hone their product discovery and purchase capabilities. Google is great at search, yet their G+ social network wasn’t the most successful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2020

Set a personal example with visible, memorable symbols and behavior. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage. Don’t be afraid to pivot, and commit to new objectives with as much passion and energy as the original.

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Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur Examples 123

Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Not every new game-related site is a Steam, and surely not every social network is a Facebook. Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. Google became an overnight industry standard for search strictly by word of mouth, never spending a dime on advertising in its early years.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups.

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Develop Development Startup SEO 396

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

According to Kyla Brennan, founder & CEO of HelloSociety, “Pinterest is undeniably one of the most exciting social networks to emerge recently.”. According to Shareaholic, an online sharing service, data released July last year show Pinterest is beating Twitter, StumbleUpon, Bing, and Google in referral traffic.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups.

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2021

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Netflix IBM 117

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking. Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. The one big concern many people had was how to constrain the total dominance of Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Here are some recognizable entrepreneurial examples I like, just from the technology space: Driven by an epic ambition. Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook as a virtual social network built on a lifetime of friendships, while offering advertisers a powerful and targeted marketing tool. Persuasive and empowering.

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Resource Entrepreneur Social Network SpaceX 97

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 6, 2010

Googling yourself would be a good place to start. Create a separate email address for your online/social media inquiries. Check out Gmail , Yahoo or Live , for example. Use Google Alert s for daily notifications on conversations happening about you. Also look up yourself on other search engines such as ZoomInfo and Wink.

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Email Startup Yahoo Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Get familiar with current social media tools, such as Google Analytics, Kissmetrics, and HootSuite analytics.

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Social Media Media Invest Platform 79

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

By Evan Britton Each day, millions of internet users post updates on a variety of social networking sites. For example, if you want to see what people are saying right now about a person, place, or your business - a real-time search will give you a window into people's minds.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

An example of that is Craig's, which now has Craigs.la. Between 2004 and 2009, things were driven by Google's search engine algorithms. If you had a good keyword, that might give you a better place in Google's search engine, and that became the dominant reason for a domain. How did you get involved with.LA?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

Examples include Twitter, Plurk, and Jaiku. Examples include Second Life and Funsites. Examples include SendOutCards, Google, and Amazon. Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net. Virtual reality worlds. Extended personalization. Mobile smart phones.

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Web Entrepreneur Doc Examples 95

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 20, 2010

Don’t you Google them immediately before you set up a meeting or even accept their invitation to a meeting? Plus the information they find about you on Google , LinkedIn , Facebook … get them to decide how to move forward with this relationship. Strategic Planning & Training Marketing * Networking * Social Networking.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For example, Sprinkles Cupcakes will donate 25 cents to Pencils of Promise for each view its video receives. Further, college ambassadors will spread awareness about Givvr on launch day via on campus events and pervasive social media campaigns. Givvr’s concept for converting video advertisements into charitable donations is simple.

Help 97

Help Pepperdine Social Media Advertising 97

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Whether someone is in Google address book, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter, they all end up in one place. It also generated search alerts--like a Google alert, for mentions of that person's name, company, and also keywords. The market really is power networkers. Tell us a bit about the business model? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

Examples include Twitter, Plurk, and Jaiku. Examples include Second Life and Funsites. Examples include SendOutCards, Google, and Amazon. Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net. Virtual reality worlds. Extended personalization. Mobile smart phones.

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Web Web 2.0 Doc Examples 88

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. Lots to learn from him.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. For example, if your world is printers, your blogging messages better match your print advertising message.

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Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Clearly these advertisements make some impact but often the effects aren’t measurable (and even when you do see something it is often subconscious and may manifest itself later as a search query in Google and therefore harder to attribute to the banner). Some companies are solving for this problem algorithmically.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Get familiar with current social media tools, such as Google Analytics, Kissmetrics, and HootSuite analytics.

Social Media 66

Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It is a platform that allows anyone who offers a service to advertise it for free – we promote this profile on the most popular social networks such as Twitter , Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Stumbleupon and many more. For example on Facebook we have had 3,248 comments on the last 100 posts. How does it work?

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Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. You don’t.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

Here are some recognizable entrepreneurial examples I like, just from the technology space: Driven by an epic ambition. Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook as a virtual social network built on a lifetime of friendships, while offering advertisers a powerful and targeted marketing tool. Persuasive and empowering.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 101

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We support various translation gateways from Google, Microsoft, and other third party translation engines. There's Google, Microsoft, Lionbridge, SYSTRAN, all of whom are spending huge amounts of money to be able to become the dominant language translation vendor. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

Here are some recognizable entrepreneurial examples I like, just from the technology space: Driven by an epic ambition. Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook as a virtual social network built on a lifetime of friendships, while offering advertisers a powerful and targeted marketing tool. Persuasive and empowering.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 114

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised. Get familiar with current social media tools, such as Google Analytics, SproutSocial, and HootSuite analytics.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

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. That, combined with being early on the social web, was the nexus from where MomentFeed came about. Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

One really great experience was a discussion I had with the camera rolling with my good friend Dmitry Shapiro who founded the major YouTube competitor of its time (Veoh) that was sued into oblivion by Universal and who also founded a social network designed to promote pseudonymity. Take for example FAKEGRIMLOCK on Twitter.

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