socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

We caught up with Julie Schoenfeld , the firm's CEO, to hear about how the firm's offerings have evolved, an interesting comparison of the firm's software to what Demand Media is doing, and what this new funding will go towards. It's some of the kinds of things Demand Media does, except, for the newsroom. Congrats on funding.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Foursquare is a great example of this. The media eats it up as they always need something to write about. Be unique, find free marketing opportunities and use social media to build your following. Be unique, find free marketing opportunities and use social media to build your following. Engage with your audience.

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APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team.

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Buzzfeed Content Tips Blogging 354

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

If you are a business owner today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Social Media Media Startup Platform 126

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JANUARY 23, 2011

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. In a startup this is a mistake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

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Writing Technical Review Entrepreneur Advertising 19

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. Harlem Shake.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. People aren’t going to fundamentally change their media consumption patterns just as consumers don’t fundamentally change their diets.

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Company Companies Technical Review Content 339

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Guy, how would your 2004 book, Art Of The Start , differ, if you were writing it today? What is massively different from now and when I wrote the book is that social media didn’t exist back then. If I were writing the book today, there would be a whole chapter or two…about how to use Facebook and Twitter. That doesn’t work.”.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Social Media Startup 262

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AUGUST 4, 2009

msuster for me) the message you write appears in my @msuster inbox on Twitter.com and on any of the desktop or mobile clients. For example, if you follow me but not @deblanda an I send her a message starting with an @ then you won’t see it at all. Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. The basics: 1.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. I also serve as CEO of a small media companies that profile “Tomorrow’s Most Exciting People Today”. Example here: [link]. Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators.

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.

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Press Startup Writing Training 319

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AUGUST 10, 2009

I’ve posted three people’s examples to the left. And write a short bio about yourself. Tags: Social Media social networking Twitter. UPDATE: People have made the fix and say they still don’t appear in the search results. Be patient – it will appear. First is Amanda Coolong of TechZulu. Anything.

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Tips Social Media Social Network Santa Monica 216

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JANUARY 31, 2015

So it’s a disappointment to me that these esteemed journalists haven’t adapted to the modern media – to social media. Here’s an example from nobel-prize economist Paul Krugman. He can write well about economics but dude can’t Tweet. But he hasn’t figured out that media is now two way.

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Social Media Media Buzzfeed Journal 150

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MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? Final example. And Flurry always gets mentioned.

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Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

She entered you reservation by writing in a time slot in a paper calendar and you were in. It got quite good reviews in the media: TechCrunch , LifeHacker & PandoDaily and many others. We have an entire dev team dedicated solely to calendar integrations, for example. After hours there was the answering machine.

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Development Team Review Course Mobile Writing 324

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. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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MARCH 13, 2010

I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. I’ve always believed that you learn a great deal when you’re presenting, teaching or writing about what you know. It’s just my writing style.

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Blogging Social Media Writing Startup 250

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. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Social Media Media Startup Platform 95

TechCrunch LA

JULY 2, 2020

As Mucker Capital co-founder Hsu writes, “There are far more great companies than there are venture dollars here in LA. We see a huge growth in food production and preservation (Apeel Sciences, for example) and food distribution (such as ChowNow). ” Mark Suster, managing partner, Upfront Ventures.

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Los Angeles Venture Capital Capital Invest 277

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. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93

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JUNE 17, 2013

Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” After a brief overview of you, your company and your solution I recommend putting up some example clients you’ve worked with, although you obviously need their approval first. Do you see that at all inside your department?

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

What do children's vitamins and social media have to do with one another? Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0.

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Web Social Media SEO Media 225

socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

For today's interview, we spoke to Bill Curtis , the founder of Malibu-based CurtCo Media (www.curtco.com). We spoke to Bill about CurtCo's move into the podcasting area, and why he thinks podcasting is the next frontier in media. Talk about what CurtCo is working on? No one else is doing that now in podcasting.

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Media Report Advertising Content 150

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

We''ve put lots of money into areas we know well, such as technology for the financial services industry, technology for retail services, and technology for digital media. How has your broad social media presence affected your dealflow? I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans.

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Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

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MAY 24, 2016

Here’s an example of a recent Snapstorm on negotiations: https://medium.com/media/ecca992139dedfef9ac6dc1a6afe432e/href So for the people who still don’t get why I’d use Snapchat — in no particular order let me say: I enjoy doing it. I LOVE writing. But writing takes more time and some days I don’t have that.

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Snapchat Blogging Venture Capital Writing 200

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JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. ” Here are some examples: 1. Simply write a great book? It’s just like my book example. Mea culpa and get right back into line.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This does not mean you shouldn’t solve big, complex problems or write complex code. No matter how smart or knowledgable Gore was he couldn’t get a break in the media. That’s why your examples need to sound human. ” “Hollywood is run by dinosaurs and we understand the future of media.”

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Entrepreneur Startup Press Venture Capital 370

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JUNE 2, 2011

We have a severe shortage of talented engineers in this country, for example, and science doesn’t seem to garner as much attention & focus in the US as it does in some other countries. Let me give you an example. In Poly Sci I learned critical thinking and writing. I’ll give you a real world example.

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Education Startup Incubator Class 322

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APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard coincidentally cites Mike Yavondite’s Qiigo as an example; Mike was a guest on TWIVC later that day. I’m now back & ready for action.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. For example, you can add $AAPL to separate the post from regular posts, which we pulled into our own search around that ticker. It's fun, I guess. Only a dummy would do it again.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

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MAY 22, 2019

Initially that means a creative, collaborative toolset for visual communications, allowing users to develop really compelling slides, print materials or social media posts that are more visually compelling and easier-to-build for those who aren’t naturally gifted as visual story tellers. What are some examples? Yeah, this sucks.

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Startup Social Media Slides Design 191

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

Image via Pixabay If you are a business owner today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Social Media Media Invest Platform 79

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The headlines in the media are filled with that latest stats. I’m writing this post to make sure you’re all on that same playing field. Here are some examples: - You ask a small sample set so that data isn’t statistically significant. How to Interpret Analyst Reports. Stats sell. What are you on about?

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Statistics Startup Report Research 415

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We also have a partnership with Trion Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. Our media clients were telling us that they were losing revenues to Groupon. It's similar to a franchise. READ MORE>>.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

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JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. I would try a line like, “I know that some of you might be social media experts and others may be less deep on this particular area. Congratulations.

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Venture Capital Startup Sales Writing 318