Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted. According to a recent social media industry report , 92 percent said that social media is important to their businesses, and more than half report it helped them improve sales. Focus first on the social media trinity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Focus first on the social media trinity. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. The big three, which have 90 percent of everything you need, include blogging (Wordpress or Blogger), microblogging (Twitter), and social networks (Facebook or LinkedIn).

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Tech support is sales. Yep, that sounds lowly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. That was in addition to the social media work I'd done. For the first time, that social media activity is actually taking place at the point of sale.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

The whole category of “sponsored search&# came from a successful LA company, Overture. (my LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Focus first on the social media trinity. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. The big three, which have 90 percent of everything you need, include blogging (Wordpress or Blogger), microblogging (Twitter), and social networks (Facebook or LinkedIn).

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. Yeah, I have made plenty of mistakes in this category in the past. You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales. Social is not a hype movement; it is part of the web’s DNA. Question is, ‘How is it used?’

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. Our special sauce in that, is instead of focusing on categories like groceries and restaurants, we've mapped everything to brands instead. Tell me the story behind Payoff.com?

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2009

The social networking and sharing will get richer. Ricardo Solar: I worked for thirteen years at Mattel, and have a marketing and sales background. My life has been spend around shopping research, retail development, business development, and understanding how people shop in stores, category management, and merchandising.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

For lack of a better word, it's really social shopping--not in the way of using social networking to drive sales, but because moms are social, to allow them to share information regularly online. When raising money, you look to meet with people using your network. How long has the site been around?

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. the world’s largest celeb endorsement network). Sizhao “Zao” Yang is currently the COO/co-founder a t BetterWorks , Inc.,

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Social network app developer and ad network.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

In the past 6 months we’ve heard from Dmitry Shapiro on the future of online video, Ian Rogers on the future music model, David Sacks on the future of social networking and Michael Crandell on where Cloud Computing is headed. More than 90% of Japanese mobile subscribers are on 3G networks (vs. All have been fascinating.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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