InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

As Mr. Johnson points out, big ideas generally result from the collision of many small hunches. In isolation, a particular hunch may be worthless, but when combined with other ideas, at the right time, the result can be a game-changing innovation. Modern-day entrepreneurs use Evernote, Google Keep, etc. Chaos By Design .

Ideas 69

Ideas Startup Technical Review Santa Barbara 69

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. contextual text ads (e.g. So did the media.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2023

Too many entrepreneurs I know still believe that that their great idea will carry the startup, and they may even minimize their own value, especially if they have introvert tendencies. Yet most investors agree that the “idea” is worth nothing alone, and it’s the entrepreneur execution that counts. Your personal life is now public.

Startup 117

Startup Ideas Social Network Technical Review 117

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google. Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. At the time, everyone seemed to be enamored with the idea that your company had to be ‘all things to all people’. were doing.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2018

Too many entrepreneurs I know still believe that that their great idea will carry the startup, and they may even minimize their own value, especially if they have introvert tendencies. Yet most investors agree that the “idea” is worth nothing alone, and it’s the entrepreneur execution that counts. Your personal life is now public.

Ideas 59

Ideas Marketing Startup Entrepreneur 59

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Most designers, at least the ones I know, hate to network and rarely do it. The key to networking in the tech world is you do not need to be the best in the world, you just need to be passionate, willing to learn and in a lot of cases be the best designer or developer that people know. Networking through social media.

Design 91

Design Networking Social Media Google 91

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 15, 2014

The fact that the bug had existed for so long without being discovered caused a great deal of consternation for those in the technology world, and while the bug was later fixed, worries over network security persisted. Google touted this characteristic when it first announced the tool, and it’s easy to see why.

Tool 85

Tool Networking Google Web 85

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. What is Near Networks? What's your background, and where did the idea for the business come from?

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. We will collaborate on ideas and projects. Isn’t social networking amazing? I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time! I love Namechk.com for this.

Social Network 196

Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Most entrepreneurs dream of achieving the exponential expansion of a Google or Amazon, but few investor pitches I see outline any strategy beyond simple marketing to make this happen. Get your community involved in both the idea and the delivery. Why not make your idea an unstoppable movement, and not just a business?

Ideas 105

Ideas Search Engine Optimization Startup Artificial Inteligence 105

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 7, 2019

The company is one of a growing number of startups trying to rejuvenate the music streaming market by combining it with social networking so that audiences can listen to the playlists of their favorite athletes and entertainers… and their friends. Users can create a login for the app or use their Google or Facebook accounts.

Entertainment 224

Entertainment Social Media Social Network Media 224

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In startups, a great success like Google causes busts by stimulating more supply, without regard to demand. Overconfidence.

Demand 145

Demand Google Commerce Pricing 145

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

Here are some basic principles: Angels invest in people, more often than they invest in ideas. With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

Startup 135

Startup Keiretsu Platform Invest 135

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A great opportunity for more visible networking. Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. Sometimes I make a blog entry. Great posts.

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

There were so many innovative ideas and interest in entrepreneurship among students in Ventura County! 2018 was a year of coming to terms with the tech that I already have: Android phone, Amazon Echo & Kindle, Macbook, Google Home. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? Nothing that really blew me away. READ MORE>>.

Ventura 154

Ventura Tech Coast Angels Santa Barbara Southern California 154

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

Too many entrepreneurs I know still believe that that their great idea will carry the startup, and they may even minimize their own value, especially if they have introvert tendencies. Yet most investors agree that the “idea” is worth nothing alone, and it’s the entrepreneur execution that counts. Your personal life is now public.

Startup 132

Startup Tips Ideas Entrepreneur 132

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

With the proliferation of social networks, communications clients and VoIP phone services, users often find they need to use multiple ways--Twitter, Facebook, phone, FAX, and more--to communicate with their contacts. Essentially what VoxOx is, is a service which logs into all of your networks. It works with any device.

Social Network 259

Social Network Platform Networking Google 259

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2021

Most entrepreneurs dream of achieving the exponential expansion of a Google or Amazon, but few investor pitches I see outline any strategy beyond simple marketing to make this happen. Get your community involved in both the idea and the delivery. Why not make your idea an unstoppable movement, and not just a business?

Search Engine Optimization 158

Search Engine Optimization Artificial Inteligence Organization Social Media 158

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 7, 2014

Every day my website gets hit by someone looking for Chef Eric Greenspan of the Foundry on Melrose and of Food Network fame. I had no idea how to get a table so I just called my Onstar service and asked them to do it. A little more than three years ago I was on the Private Chefs of Beverly Hills on Food Network.

Beverly Hills 238

Beverly Hills Networking Entrepreneur Google 238

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

They must be constantly on the lookout for new ideas and intuitively grasping their potential implications, seeing and seizing opportunities for change. Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook as a virtual social network built on a lifetime of friendships, while offering advertisers a powerful and targeted marketing tool.

Examples 131

Examples Entrepreneur Technology Resource 131

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

I started telling people privately that I thought Google should buy Disqus for the same reasons Facebook wants to own commenting in the first place. Commenting on topical blogs is a form of topical social networking in the same way that Quora is. I don’t like the idea of pushing my comments into Twitter. Me thinks, not.

Blogging 287

Blogging Social Network Google Startup 287

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Michael has been behind such companies as HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever). I need to focus my time on big ideas paired with extremely passionate entrepreneurs. Today, we have a contribution from Michael Jones , the CEO of Science Inc. in exits.

Dollar Shave Club 140

Dollar Shave Club Userplane Tsavo Southern California 140

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

. “In order to create a successful new company, you have to find an idea that. (1) How many ideas like that are left? ” He gives a nice little 6-minute video interview on Bloomberg reinforcing these ideas. And Dropbox & Box.net in a Google, Microsoft, Apple world. Where David is Totally Right.

Technical Review 299

Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. It’s an opportunity for that “big bang” return of 10X to 100 times your initial investment, like early investors in Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Join an existing angel investor group.

Startup 120

Startup Invest Equity Incubator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

These differences are the reason that investors say that they invest in people, rather than ideas. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage. Reinforce the team message constantly: “We are one – we live or die together.”

Technical Review 107

Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur Examples 107

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

You should also use these forums to test and hone your solution idea for general acceptance, before your risk your own money and investor funds to build a shippable version. There are dozens of tools available to help you monitor relevant activity, including Social Mention and Google Alerts.

Product 127

Product Entrepreneur Technical Advisors Technical Review 127

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

Or at least you have an idea of what a startup is like to work in? Long hours in co-working offices with CEOs fresh from university with big ideas and a lot of vague, nebulous chat about platforms. But Google has closed the London branch of its Google for Startups Campus. You know what a startup is, right?

Startup 175

Startup Course Coach Demand 175

TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

Performance was essentially identical to the plaintext tests, confirming earlier suspicions that the impact of small JSON serialization workloads on high-performance platforms is trivial compared to the HTTP network traffic. Take a look at the list of test ideas we have collected to date. We are hiring.

Framework 521

Framework Software Review Technical Review EC2 521

Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Not every new game-related site is a Steam, and surely not every social network is a Facebook. Sometimes, it is just the right idea to brand your product inside that of a known presence. Google became an overnight industry standard for search strictly by word of mouth, never spending a dime on advertising in its early years.

Sites 156

Sites Product Social Network Press 156

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). I sure hope that Apple is working with Google to make this work.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. David Cohen from TechStars, someone I look up to as an entrepreneur, says that they don’t invest in ideas, but teams.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2021

Just because someone else tells you that you can make money with this idea, doesn’t mean you can sell it. People give real credibility to fresh insights that could not have come from Google search. Here are seven key steps which both Gupta and I agree are necessary for success: Persuade yourself before you try to convince others.

Entrepreneur 174

Entrepreneur Examples Google Funding 174

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2015

is looking to take that same, fundamental idea of personal referrals to jobs, and scale it out through social networks and the social graph. BenoitVatere: The whole idea behind SpringRole, is to be able to scale the job referral opportunity. Los Angeles-based SpringRole (www.springrole.com)--which is backed by Science, Inc.--

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Networking Social Network Ideas 100

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

However, instead of just very rapidly scaling around that idea, we decided to really define what the business needed to look like. But what's also happened, is we've narrowed down the set of networks that we use as consumers to engage with companies. In 2013, Facebook local pages, Google Pages, and Yelp were not all that active.

Google 127

Google Paid Search Mobile Activity 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. If you don’t need these common resources, but need specialized technology services, you should look for technology parks and research facilities, often sponsored by leading companies in specific technologies, like Intel Capital and Google Ventures (GV).

Organization 92

Organization Incubator Startup Resource 92