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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. The company was called Red Beacon.

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The Perfect Pithy And Productive Investor Pitch

InfoChachkie

Ebay+Soundcloud = us" and "FLIMBY=Yammer+Delicious+Gotomeeting.". Yammer for Education) & explanatory (e.g., All of these 10 companies allow previously disconnected user groups to connect and transact, in what is termed ecosystem business models or multi-sided platforms.". Math Doesn''t Lie. Explanatory. "A

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. SimpleGeo – Provider of simple, turnkey location based services to content publishers and online service providers looking to location-enable their applications or services. OTHER DEALS: 1. Go Boulder!

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Interview with Eric M. Jackson, CapLinked

socalTECH

Jackson: CapLinked is actually a collaborative platform, a social platform that connects entrepreneurs and investors. At some point, after the beta period, we may have some nominal fees for using the service. We've had a class of people who have gone on to start fantastic companies, such as LinkedIn, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

socalTECH

What it did uniquely, is it also integrated contacts and communications--all in single platform. Jon Ferrara: What we did when we set out to build Nimble, is we starting building a platform which integrate your contacts and calendar. Google Apps does not need to be a CRM system today, or even a social business platform.

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How Kaleo Is Tackling Enterprise Knowledge Sharing

socalTECH

That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that. We've created an easy process for big companies to build a living knowledge base.