Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2021

As I have discussed in previous articles, social networking sites like Facebook are now the most frequently used websites on the Internet. So the social networks are the early place to start, in learning the discipline of building and maintaining a positive reputation. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Social network app developer and ad network. RockYou (Asia) is primarily focused on the development of social networking apps and games; founded as a joint venture between RockYou, SoftBank and SK Telecom. Competitor: Slide. Total raised: $56.3mm. Read more: TechCrunch. Total raised: $129.0mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

If one vocal person blurts out, “just give us the details, we all know social networking&# don’t assume that person speaks for the entire room. I have a few slides later that address that.&# (obviously if you say that you need to come back to the question either later or after the meeting. But … watch out.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

“We are all now online and at significantly greater speeds with computers in our pockets that are one-click from purchasing anything and recommending the best products to everybody we know through social networks. Here are some simple slides that outline the point: a. And this is about to grow even faster.” Want some context?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Some sites to check out: CoFounderNetwork.com PartnerUp.com Namesake.com - more of a social network, but still a good way to network TechCofounder.com Foundrs.com Startuplinkup.com Cofoundrs.com You can try finding folks via [link] StackOverflow.com Oh, and often there are forums for particular technologies where you can look.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. Most social networking sites have a problem with having lots of pageviews, but advertising that isn't very valuable.

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Yammer Geni Startup Southern California 133

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. . $5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

For example, instead of quick slide presentations, teams at Amazon write six-page memos to lay out ideas in narratives to be read in silence at the start of a meeting. It’s your challenge to learn how to use social networks and video facilities effectively. Provide regular feedback on execution and results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2015

As I have discussed in previous articles, social networking sites like Facebook are now the most frequently used websites on the Internet. So the social networks are the early place to start, in learning the discipline of building and maintaining a positive reputation. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget.

Search Engine Optimization 101

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 101

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2013

As I have discussed in previous articles, social networking sites like Facebook are now the most frequently used websites on the Internet. So the social networks are the early place to start, in learning the discipline of building and maintaining a positive reputation. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget.

Report 98

Report Search Engine Optimization Startup Google 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2011

As I have discussed in previous articles, social networking sites like Facebook are now the most frequently used websites on the Internet. So the social networks are the early place to start, in learning the discipline of building and maintaining a positive reputation. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget.

Web 93

Web Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network 93

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2012

As I have discussed in previous articles, social networking sites like Facebook are now the most frequently used websites on the Internet. So the social networks are the early place to start, in learning the discipline of building and maintaining a positive reputation. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget.

Search Engine Optimization 85

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 85

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I guess that’s why I encouraged people to raise money while the getting’s good (PPT slides & video). Computing will be an order of magnitude more mobile 10 years from now, changing the way applications are delivered and the way we interact with our real social networks. And Social. My prognosis?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly without a big slide presentation. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The business world expects exactly the opposite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly without a big slide presentation. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. In school, you''re taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The business world expects exactly the opposite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Investors expect a one or two-page executive summary sheet for the initial screening, backed up by a ten-slide Powerpoint investor presentation. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Investors expect a one or two-page executive summary sheet for the initial screening, backed up by a ten-slide Powerpoint investor presentation. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

Next up was Avesta Rasouli from Coloft , a coworking space that is considered to be the hub of LA Tech, focused on the elements that make for a great startup community; capital, talent and social networks. Investor Nate Redmond from Rustic Canyon Partners spoke candidly to the audience about the faux pas in approaching investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Investors expect a one or two-page executive summary sheet for the initial screening, backed up by a ten-slide Powerpoint investor presentation. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. I started out with a handful of dimes making cold calls from a phone booth in Grand Central Station. More general resources are: Tracy Williams at Olmstead Williams for PR.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2017

As I have discussed in previous articles, social networking sites like Facebook are now the most frequently used websites on the Internet. So the social networks are the early place to start, in learning the discipline of building and maintaining a positive reputation. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget.

Search Engine Optimization 56

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 56

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I started by trying to think I could explain my concept without having to patronize everybody with artificial PowerPoint slides. Slides, please.” I was wrong. This is going well. Page 1: Market Size. $3

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. The iPhone was released.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The money slide is the graphic below. The top line is available storage (S), the middle line represents processing power (following Moore’s law) or (P) and the bottom line is the Network (N). In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking.

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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. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. What truth?

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Cho made his case for Revolve, a digital instrument created for biology labs that combines the features of an upright microscope (for viewing glass slides) and an inverted microscope (for viewing live samples in a petri dish). Echo Labs’ hybrid microscope.

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