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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. You could just outspend. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

million raised, per CrunchBase): It came from my deep frustration renting as an undegrad at Oxford for the first time back in 2005. For enterprise software companies, this was quite far from the truth. Clark: Competing through Social Networks. Prince: Business History. Georgiades: Negotiation.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content.

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

Duct Tape Marketing

Both of these moved signal a renewed focus on making both Profiles and Places pages more important in their ecosystem and perhaps ultimately in a social network of some sort. There’s also an interesting integration of acquisition TalkBin , a tool that makes it very easy for people send SMS messages to any registered business.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Social network addiction around the world (Israelis are the most addicted) – [link]. 25 Must Have Social Media Icon Packs For Web Designers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Cool business card designs – [link].

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”.

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