Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2015

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. Most people accept that no person or organization is perfect. Proactively build a positive reputation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. Most people accept that no person or organization is perfect. Actively monitor what people are saying about you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. Most people accept that no person or organization is perfect. Proactively build a positive reputation.

Search Engine Optimization 56

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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. Why would your users want to manage all of their communications, social networking, and so forth in one place?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2012

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. Most people accept that no person or organization is perfect. Actively monitor what people are saying about you.

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Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 85

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2011

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a SCREAMING post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. Most people accept that no person or organization is perfect. Actively monitor what people are saying about you.

Web 93

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. Google had huge destination traffic. Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). it seems that Twitter should have the same Google-like cost advantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner. So did the media.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

At the moment, Conolly heads the startups social media team in Egypt while Turdubaev looks after Russian countries and translation of the site. ProfileTree was a good fit – the branches – network, leaves – people. TechZulu caught up with Conolly and this is what we learn. We help them with this. Why the name?

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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?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

By Evan Britton Each day, millions of internet users post updates on a variety of social networking sites. Google has also taken notice of the real-time web and they have begun to mix real-time results into their engine. These are real-time results that Google have mixed in. You can reach him directly via email.

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Web Social Network Google Networking 82

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. The New York Times also flirted with the idea when they created “Times Select,&# a paid portion of their site including their OpEds. Solve Media is that.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2013

Industry-specific networking site Kaleio , has partnered with Indeed.com to include both national and international job listings within the Kaleio Marketplace in a move that is expected to make it a one-stop professional networking and business tool for students and the non-executive workforce. Mashable, and several others.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

We recently ran across TravBuddy.com (www.travbuddy.com), a Los Angeles area travel site which allows travelers to meet others, share travel reviews, photos, and more, and had thought it would be great to hear the story behind the site. For our readers who haven't used your site, what's it all about? He graduated from U.C.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

million for a social networking site 18 months ago. Google has announced that they are planning to compete with you. - Many people Google you before meetings. If you’re going to see a client and somebody else in their organization is having big customer service issues, don’t sweep in under the rug.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2010

These items can kill your business career, as you may remember from the example in Google Results are the Measure of an Entrepreneur. According to a December survey by the Ponemon Institute, a privacy research organization, roughly half of U.S. Other sites, like Yelp , focus on reviews of businesses.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

They can access them, organize them, and keep them in one location. Additionally, we have all the different instant messaging networks available in Orgoo. You can archive and organize your IM conversations, along and inside the same folders as your email. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Google followed immediately and introduced Android. Just one year after their respective launches, Apple and Google exceeded one billion app downloads. To improve engagement, coordinate your app with existing channels like the web, e-mail, and social networking sites. Encourage users to rate and review the app.

Mobile 40

Mobile Social Media Google Software Review 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 13, 2013

Special shout out goes to WeLink who helped organize the after party, and ROAR who came in as a party sponsor. Prism will be an extension of what you can do with the Google Glass. Technologies used: google maps, jquery, java, and tomcat. Technologies used: Google App engine and Android SDK. This is where Travelbot.co

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Java Google Press PHP 94

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 This is the same with competing activity streams in various social networks.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many adds came through organic SEO? of the people who click on Google paid links then your true cost to acquire is actually = $12 ($1.50 / 0.125). How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? How many through affiliate deals? How many through SEM?

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2021

The real “resume” that you have to live with is everything that you or anyone else has posted about you on any site on the Internet. Today, most personnel organizations readily admit that they already use the Internet to validate what they see in your written resume.

Social Network 99

Social Network Examples Tips Startup 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2019

The real “resume” that you have to live with is everything that you or anyone else has posted about you on any site on the Internet. Today, most personnel organizations readily admit that they already use the Internet to validate what they see in your written resume.

Social Network 89

Social Network Examples Tips Google 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

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Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2017

The real “resume” that you have to live with is everything that you or anyone else has posted about you on any site on the Internet. Today, most personnel organizations readily admit that they already use the Internet to validate what they see in your written resume. You can’t hide, since no Internet presence will always be a negative.

Social Network 94

Social Network Examples Tips Startup 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2013

In fact, if your profile is not already on one of these sites, it probably means that you aren’t in the business market anyway. Today, most personnel organizations readily admit that they already use the Internet to cross-check what they see in your written resume. If it’s an executive position, highlight your results in that context.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Social Network Examples 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

Angel 67

Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 67

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

How to create a technology start-up inside a large organization - based on how we are doing it right. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Ever since grade school I've been told organization is my number one problem. Make Millions: Re-Invent Global Sites for Local Markets. Chris Ennis, OneRecovery.

Guide 69

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. . OTHER DEALS. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. Asymmetric – Before Twitter most social networks had “symmetric” relationships meaning that when somebody wanted to follow you, you had to follow them back in order for us to be connected. Or how about Google?

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