InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

According to Jared Belsky, President, 360i , “We see Search and Social as a 24 hour real-time consumer focus group that helps us stay on top of what consumers care about for our brands. Greathouse : DataPop & Kenshoo recently released a study that highlights the potential opportunities on sites like Pinterest and Polyvore.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Everyone knows that startups are risky, but they also expect that the job will be exciting and potentially very lucrative (think early employees at Facebook and Google). Yet we have all heard stories about the high turnover, unstructured work environment, lower base pay, and unpredictable expectations from the top.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Neither people nor computers can really help you as a personal assistant unless you are willing to share data about what you like, what you feel, and who and what’s important to you. Google scores high for tools, location, and social media data sharing, but not for biometric data. Norton, Ph.D.,

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

In the IAB study that revealed the graph above, brand advertisers indicated that their number one objective in online advertising was “creating awareness&# followed by “creating purchase intent&# or “likelihood to recommend&# the product. Hershey’s chocolates spends about $365 million in advertising per year.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

This morning’s show took on the topic of “teams” and highlighted research that Julia Rozovsky and Google has conducted called Project Aristotle and profiled in Charles Duhigg’s book Smarter, Faster, Better. The best leaders I work with tend to obsess about teams. But the conversation rang very true for me.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2011

About a month back I sat down with Scribd’s CEO, Trip Adler for a casual lunch to catch up. Turns out Trip’s strategy was a hot topic among Silicon Valley start-ups as the terms ‘Google me,’ ‘Facebook me,’ ‘Tweet it’ are regular cocktail party verbose, no longer just at Stanford. I would hope to think not.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

In other Google-related news, Recode reported that Bill Maris, the founder and president of Google Ventures (now called GV), has left the firm and will be replaced by David Krane. . —The U.S. Alex Lash examined the company’s role, via its biotech subsidiary Verily Life Sciences, in the massive project. —David H.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

Neither people nor computers can really help you as a personal assistant unless you are willing to share data about what you like, what you feel, and who and what’s important to you. Google scores high for tools, location, and social media data sharing, but not for biometric data. Norton, Ph.D.,

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Social Media Startup Tool Google 131

Steve Reich

APRIL 11, 2012

You are fanatical about metrics for your online business. You study metrics and user behavior. John is as relentless about metrics in hiring as you are in your business. You A-B test everything. The consumer’s every move across your site, your mobile ap, and your marketing campaigns is tracked and analyzed.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Just about every Startup at some point and especially if you do not have a designer, is going to need icons to help spruce up those websites. It’s basically Google for icons. Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

So it was fun to get his perspective on topics that are sometimes too toxic for VCs to talk about publicly. We had a great hour-long chat about the industry and the deals of the week. We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2011

About a month back I sat down with Scribd’s CEO, Trip Adler for a casual lunch to catch up. Turns out Trip’s strategy was a hot topic among Silicon Valley start-ups as the terms ‘Google me,’ ‘Facebook me,’ ‘Tweet it’ are regular cocktail party verbose, no longer just at Stanford. I would hope to think not.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. How about $30,000 and 3 weeks?&# They didn’t exactly grap the top end of the market. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

In this article about Tom Perkins in the WSJ you would have had a clue before his recent letter. There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. What about Kleiner? Is Google to blame? But let me try. Of course not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2019

Everyone knows that that startups are risky, but they also expect that the job will be exciting and potentially very lucrative (think early employees at Facebook and Google). Yet we have all heard stories about the high turnover, unstructured work environment, lower base pay, and unpredictable expectations from the top.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

We also talked about getting more young African Americans interested in entrepreneurship & technology. He studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them. It made me confident about what would work. He would get a call from the stores asking about a new album coming out.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

They are in a space where there is lots of search traffic, but they didn't have anything particularly interesting to say about how they were going to get ranked. On Page SEO Most founders talk about what I call On Page SEO. And let's face facts, we normally are talking Google search. You can promote your site all over the place.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about “ growth hacking ” and why I thought it was wrong that people were hating on the term unnecessarily. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. It’s worth a quick read. But it wasn’t to be.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My macro theme was “great entrepreneurs&# who mapped to my belief system about the kind of entrepreneurs I wanted to work with. Offline / Online Integration: Think about it, when you shop at Nordstrom they should know as much about you as Amazon does when you’re shopping online. They’re not.

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Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

Tech.Co

JULY 27, 2016

Fortunately, study after study has shown that IT professionals and computer science graduates are going home with the biggest paychecks on a regular basis. This is what will create the next generation of remarkable companies like Google, Amazon and Uber.” Finding a job can be hard.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. Great stuff!

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Acquisition Custom Customer Ideas 170

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. If you’re not even spending any time thinking about what your market could be you’re simply being lazy and unprepared. Let me be very direct. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

By now you will likely have read Andy Dunn’s scathing post about Venture Capitalists in which he decries the industry’s masses. After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. But VC is like congress.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Before jumping into the post I wanted to point out one thing about doing TWiVC and posting my notes here on BSOTT. In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Just not the kind you would initially read about on TechCrunch. And that’s what I love about her narrative. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. Here’s what I learned about Tracy: 1. That may soon change.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Piaw Na, who spent over six years at Google, writes on Quora that she recommends fresh grads to join a startup instead of big companies. She says that “if you join a startup, you’re learning everything about a company and engineering. If you join a big company, you’re learning a lot about a very little domain.”.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Pasadena-based Cramster (www.cramster.com) recently announced $3M in a large angel round for the firm's online study communities. Cramster is looking to create online study groups, to help high school and college students study math, science, and other topics. First off, tell us what Cramster is all about?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple. What about strategy?

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

I find the recent discussion about whether accents correlate with business success disheartening. Innovation comes from those who are often less well educated (study the history of Hollywood, founded by “uneducated” Jews) or foreign born founding members (Google, Sun, Intel, PayPal) let alone reversed scientists like Einstein.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

While a mayor of any city doesn’t have unilateral power and certainly the mayor of LA has unique challenges not faced in other cities, having a champion of business in office will help to continue to raise the profile of the city when people make crucial choices about where to grow jobs. To attract LP money to local VCs. The Facts.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. In the second post, John Allspaw will talk about how well MongoDB is working out operationally.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

Consumers are calling advertisers tens of billions (yes billions) of times a year to inquire about products and to buy things. According to Google, adding phone numbers to search placements has the added benefit of helping improve click through performance by 5-30%. Want to know more about how to avoid a mobile snafu?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real.

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Writing Coach Incubator Entrepreneur 111

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

He adds,“I was thinking about these issues while still at Google. In hiring hundreds of kids out of school every year, we took an analytic approach to assessing which grads would be successful at Google – and it worked. Upstart received a $ 1.75

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We hear about corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, that are blocked from making transformative discoveries. In fact, a Wharton Business School study in this decade of the “Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years,” concluded that only eight were first conceived by entrepreneurs, and twenty-two were conceived by employees.

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