socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

What does social networking have to do with the stock market? Vinny talked with us about his start, which allows users to discuss and collaborate on their stocks and finances in a social way. Vinny Jindal: Stockr's mission is to help people invest better. Vinny Jindal: Stockr's mission is to help people invest better.

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Social Network Startup Networking Content 239

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2017

Mojiiit--which has yet to launch its product--says it is developing 3D "hologram emojis" which can be projected and shared via smartphone. Mojiit says it already has received investment from investors, including former NFL player Ed Reed; the company says producer Rob Weiss ("Entourage" and "Ballers") is the company's Creative Director.

Social Network 113

Social Network Los Angeles Networking Invest 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

In fact, businesses need to adapt even more completely to the changes in the buying and social behavior of consumers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Survey results show that more than 80% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase.

Customer 122

Customer Custom Social Media Technical Review 122

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2012

Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. Siemer disclosed the investment to its supporters in an email this week. The firm's online service helps buyers find and source products using social networking, product categories, industries, and other factors. READ MORE>>.

Funding 133

Funding Social Network Venture Capital Email 133

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.

Social Media 126

Social Media Media Startup Platform 126

Berkonomics

APRIL 2, 2020

Take for example, the public’s quick acceptance of Facebook, Instagram, Twitted and other social networking portals, leaving early leader MySpace wondering what happened to their comfortable lead and large fan base. It is human nature to protect your investment of money, time and brand in your enterprise.

Southern California 177

Southern California Examples Social Network Press 177

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Using amSTATZ athletes can track workouts and search for trainers and local events and event organizers can use the network for their events publicity and partner with trainers to develop training programs for their registrants. There are several competitors we’ve identified who have built a similar product.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Los Angeles-based Passenger , a developer of private social networking sites for brands, said today that it has raised an additional $7.5M in an investment. The company said that the investment was led by DR. Bahram Nour-Omid. READ MORE>>.

Steamboat Ventures 145

Steamboat Ventures Social Network Venture Capital Networking 145

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. Obviously, it must be grounded by the characteristics of the market and customers you choose to serve, the pricing model of existing competitors, and a strategy you believe is consistent with your future products and direction. Product line pricing.

Pricing 116

Pricing Product Customer Custom 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2022

Throughout a career lifetime, just think of the return on that investment. Maximizing Business Productivity. Productivity is much more than doing everything faster. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. Business Dress for Success. Job Hunting Basics. Job Hunting Basics.

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Class Course Email Social Network 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. Growth is more than simply repackaging existing products, and adding bells and whistles or slick incentives. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Keep delivering something new and fresh.

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Sales Metrics Guide Startup 147

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Build a prototype product. A conundrum for many frustrated entrepreneurs is that they need money from investors to design and build a prototype product, yet most angel investors expect to see at least a prototype before they invest. Free trials don’t count.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

That’s a reason why some are quick to portend “a new bubble” but this post sets out to show that would be a misunderstanding of the market and in fact by historic levels this may be amongst the best times to invest in seed and early-stage funds. More on that later. Still reading? And this is about to grow even faster.” Want some context?

Venture Capital 292

Venture Capital Capital Startup Funding 292

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. 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.

Demand 145

Demand Google Commerce Pricing 145

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. Obviously, it must be grounded by the characteristics of the market and customers you choose to serve, the pricing model of existing competitors, and a strategy you believe is consistent with your future products and direction. Cost-based model.

Pricing 98

Pricing Product Startup Competition 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

Examples 131

Examples Entrepreneur Technology Resource 131

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace.

Entrepreneur 210

Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

In fact, businesses need to adapt even more completely to the changes in the buying and social behavior of consumers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Survey results show that more than 80% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Social Media Technical Review 85

Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

Take for example, the public’s quick acceptance of Facebook, Zinga, Mixi, and other social networking portals, leaving early leader MySpace wondering what happened to their comfortable lead and large fan base. It is human nature to protect one’s investment of money, time and brand in an enterprise. Protecting the business'

Southern California 228

Southern California Social Network Press Guide 228

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based View2Gether.com , which is developing a product which will allow users to watch and share video content in real-time, said this week that it has raised a Series A investment round. Tags: view2gether venture capital content hollywood video community social networking. Size of the round was not disclosed.

Funding 100

Funding Social Network Hollywood Venture Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

For me it is a useful shorthand for a very clever set of product features that in my mind would be hard to remain a stand-alone business or themselves to generate enough revenue to justify the company’s existence. Just sending messages is a utility product and Apple killed that, not me.” . Sure, it’s intended to shock.

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Company Companies Gogii Google 295

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

Indi operates an app which lets people get paid for sharing their social content, making product recommendations, and more. The reason for this business, is folks are always going on social media to recommend products to their friends, but they're not making any money from it.

Help 113

Help Commerce Platform Orange County 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Others I have not.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And investing in content companies won’t return money! Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. Watch out for an investment announcement from me here soon.

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Hollywood Content Yahoo Java 374

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 ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Things that make it investment-grade for outside investors will also benefit you, since you are the ultimate investor. Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. Investors invest in people - not just ideas. Solution and benefits. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole.

Invest 74

Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud. Tags: entrepreneur startup venture capital investment repeat. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA.

Southern California 228

Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Evolving Role of Social Networks for Startups In this talk, Tony traces the evolution of how startups have leveraged social networks and social media as part of their solutions over the past ten years. These are exciting and fun experiences for everyone involved.

CTO Hire 175

CTO Hire Startup Metrics eHarmony 175

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Internally, we look very similar to a tech company, in that we have a development team, go-to-market team, and product people, and the ultimate goal of what we want to accomplish is to create companies that can run independently, with their own management teams. We created a product that would allow you to print barcodes.

Startup 231

Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

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 always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

Social Media 66

Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. I think this classifies as a “crack filler&# and I’m not sure I would have done the investment for that reason.

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

What we saw with CareerArc, was there was already a tremendous amount of investment in the middle of the market, with all of these different services and products that went into taking care of an employee when they were hired until they were let go. That's been very effective. more) READ MORE>>.

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Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Consumer spending is 70% of the economy and will continue to be stretched – We can look all we want at tech innovation, VC funding cycles and hot M&A deals, but ultimately growth and therefore investment must be underpinned by revenue. This has a tangible impact on the valuation of start-ups and the pace of investment.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Because you have multiple forces at work.

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I challenge them to think beyond what I call linear extensions to a current trend, such as another “easier-to-use” app for smartphones, a new dating site for pets, or another niche social network. Why doesn’t this product or service already exist?

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Ideas Resource Examples 126

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Amidst the media frenzy surrounding Facebook’s S1 filing to go public, some people took pause today to reflect on what the IPO could mean for the social networking giant. They’ll tell you Paternot was an entrepreneurial whiz kid who co-founded the very first social network in the 90′s called TheGlobe.com.

Social Network 110

Social Network Yahoo Media Networking 110

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. Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. Luck has it, I'm also a small investor though an investment in BetaWorks.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248