SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid. July 15, 2009 11:18 PM markmontgomery said. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Jerry Nettuno, founder and CEO of online appointment scheduling service Schedulicity , believes that 2012 will be a year that will see a majority of small businesses harness and leverage the power of technology and online productivity tools to effective manage and grow their business. Social media isn’t just for early adopters anymore.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Be a great product manager, marketer, or whatever your role is, and foster deep connections there. While it might be easier to find a cofounder in college, there are some ways you can increase your chances post-college as well. Here’s how. Work for a company that is known to have great engineers.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

#facepalm Spammed within an hour >> 2012/02/28 RT @mikeloukides : best customer may not be the 1 who buys the most, but who has the most influence on social networking. Management (7). Social Networking (22). social networking. December 2009 (3). November 2009 (3). October 2009 (8).

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

When you’re company is growing >10x year over year, I suppose if management didn’t invest a lot in continued growth their board directors would line them up against the wall. Founding Date: 2009. Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. Perhaps I need to rethink that.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

I took note of both and wrote quick updates – The first was the addition of optimized reviews in Places Pages and the second was the addition of reputation management features in Profile Pages.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. September 25, 2009 5:23 PM jchunter said.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Visit online forums, social networks, and blogs and check customer star rating and comments. In 2009, a study by Forrester Research found that online shoppers expected pages to load in two seconds or less. Carry out a thorough research in your area of interest and find out what is lacking. Step 5: Get your web hosting server.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Prince (CloudFlare): In order for CloudFlare to work, we had to build a network, so we didn’t have customers until late spring 2010 [about 9 months after launch], but we had a bunch of people we knew were potential customers. But it was great experience to put yourself in an uncomfortable place to manage 90 Type A personalities.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Find out who funded them – Contact the management teams. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? I’m surprised at the number of people who aren’t good at tracking down relationships in social networks. Take them for a coffee. Ask them for advice.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

She began the CIA’s Lessons Learned program and led the Agency’s first effort to address the challenges posed by social networks, digital ubiquity, and the emerging culture of collaboration. In 2009, Don and Sean won a Service to America Medal. I know what a program manager is.”

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

One quick but important note - similar to managing any other type of brand - it's not a sustainable strategy to try and cover up terrible products with a good brand. Or put another way, how do you manage your online identity or brand? Representation is a large part of any social network, but some more than others.".

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Product owners and technical managers also need to interpret this scenario properly. Business minded, agile CIO with strong social networking background. crisis management. (3). social media.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

I’ve seen openings for a “CTO” whose responsibilities include maintaining servers and managing the help desk. The CTO should not manage developers. A CTO should not manage a hardware team or an infrastructure group. One firm had a CTO that was chartered to run a group of developers. Regards, Cassiano Surek.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research. These are managed by various wealth management entities ( Conseils en gestion de patrimoine indépendents , or CGPI). And there's DailyMotion , which is eating into YouTube's market share and had a 70% jump in US traffic in 2009.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

third party to vet or manage&# your development team. Reply What To Do When There’s No Venture Capital « Web Startup Help says: January 13, 2009 at 10:42 pm [.] Reply What To Do When There’s No Venture Capital « Web Startup Lessons says: August 12, 2009 at 8:41 am [.] Like Be the first to like this post.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. Fortunately, there are innovations taking place in email management to help consumers get better at email. The rest is just digital noise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? April 22, 2009 1:26 PM Paul May said. Paul | twitter: @paulmay May 3, 2009 1:48 PM Trace Cohen said. May 4, 2009 6:36 PM acheekymonkey said.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The inception of Ecwid in 2009 was another milestone in the realm of e-commerce platforms as the site facilitated numerous small and medium traders and merchants to forage markets in the web world. For one, branding and logos and Ecwid’s powerful platform for both web and social sites. Amazon Inc.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I formally launched the product in late July 2009, after running a beta for a few months. The site currently (as of September 2009) has a couple hundred registered accounts, and a handful of paying customers. Thomas: ThoughtMuse is my first product, and I started working on it roughly half a year ago (march 2009).

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Travis Biziorek. Who We Are: We’re two individuals with a strong background in strategic consulting and management. What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. Post navigation.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Extensive use of software to automate all processes such as SEO, SEM, social networking, lead scoring, lead nurturing, CRM, etc. Use of the touchless conversion to convert trials to paying customers.

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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. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. Management, SVP North American Sales and SVP European Publishing.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2012

Even though social media and internet rule, customers make purchase decisions using a combination of old media, new media, and old-fashioned conversations with friends and family. According to a relatively old study (2009) by Harris Interactive, the most common methods of gathering information prior to making a purchase are.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Didnt get the chance to ask him if managed to visit Berkeley while he was in town and see the 52-7 whupping that the Buffs took at the hands of Cal. Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Eric Reis introduced his definition on this post from 2009 , which is still very much relevant. I’ve leveraged social media tools to gather stories from startups who went through a pivot in the last year and over 25 companies wrote back, eager to share their stories.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2010

You can view previous entries: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand. You can view previous entries: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2015

To answer those questions, here are seven common things that your interviewer or hiring manager will check, either before or after your interview. However, if you are a serious candidate for a position, the hiring manager will eventually request a background check to investigate your criminal history. Your employment history.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009. Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Ive written previously about Right Side Capital Management (RCSM) , the latest in my post earlier this year, " How Much Diligence is Due. " (Full disclosure: I am an investor and adviser in RCSM.) Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► 2009. (7). ► September. (2).

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Thursday, November 19, 2009. November 19, 2009 8:17 PM. Hope this was helpful and that you enjoy your social entrepreneurship class next semester. November 20, 2009 8:26 AM. November 21, 2009 6:58 PM. December 29, 2009 9:11 AM. ▼ 2009. (7). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 11, 2009 CPI > CPC Google revolutionized advertising by popularizing pay-per-click. This model has not translated well to the world of social networking, because customers of social networks engage sites in a different way than customers of search engines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. Recently, hes been engaged in a customer validation exercise around a new concept for a political action-oriented social network.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ▼ 2009. (7). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. ProfessorVC. Bootstrapping 101.

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