SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The company addresses a widely-experienced pain: employers are now using social networks for background check on issues such as comments about prior employers, substance-usage, and general image issues that may come across as red-flags to a prospective employer. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy.

Illinois 114

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Technical Cofounder Southern California Networking 150

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The sponsor’s brief to the team is to figure out how to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media. The team is using publicly available social media data to assess whether a given user ID refers to a real person, a real person acting under a false persona, or a bot. Team Presentations: Week 4.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. Then Gerard McDonald from Dublin, Ireland, discussed CustomerDiscovery, a concept-stage venture around online marketing services using social media mechanisms for customer acquisition. CustomerDiscovery. About Sramana Mitra.

Silicon Valley 124

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. You can register here. Now, on to today's roundtable: Parallel6.

North Carolina 116

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

We started this week's One Million by One Million roundtable with a discussion of online advertising trends, looking at them from the perspective of cost-effective customer acquisition and brand building, as well as entrepreneurial opportunities. You can find more on the topic on my blog at Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade.

Advertising 116

Advertising SMS Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 116

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. But you should.

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

Our discussion today was around prioritization of the next few critical steps around customer acquisition and validation. product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing. As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. Report Bee. Then Balaganesh S.,

India 119

India Guerilla Entrepreneur New Zealand 119

The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

Crowdify also has its own Start-Up Incubator and is uniquely positioned to advise the next generation of potential UK Unicorns (start-ups which reach a market valuation of $1bn). And that’s what Crowdify is all about,” says James Rix, the 36-year old entrepreneur and CEO of Crowdify.

Marketing 76

Marketing Agile Social Network Valuation 76

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

For example, for a company that has been reliant solely on paid acquisition the growth team should experiment with developing organic channels such as search engine optimization, content marketing, or social media marketing to complement the paid efforts. Open Up the Ideation Process. Taking Moonshots.

Technical Review 127

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. The next two customer acquisition strategies we will be expanding on are more aggressive guerrilla p.r. Now, the other wonderful feature in Stanzr is that all these conversations are shared across social media platforms - Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

We live in a social media universe now and all of them, particularly in the NBA, have very large platforms. And the good news is they're social media babies, right? The customer acquisition costs are going down. All of us are getting these awful messages on social media, by email. I'm like, "Yes."

Dallas 68

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

With high levels of public market volatility — the first we’ve seen in the age of social media and true real-time information — it feels like everyone and their grandmom is expecting a downturn. Accelerators and incubators and angels can help new founders get their wings and leave the nest.

IPO 76

IPO Private Equity Valuation Acquisition 76

socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT. . Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT.

Part-Time VPE 41

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Infochimps , a marketplace to buy, sell and share any list, spreadsheet or dataset in the world, today announced the acquisition of Data Marketplace , a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps people find, buy and sell data online. Michelle won the inaugural Austin American Statesman Texas Social Media Award in 2009.

Acquisition 72

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators). Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.);

Founder 245

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

We also had two other entrepreneurs who are working with the William Factory Incubator in Tacoma, Washington. We discussed a numbers of customer acquisition methods to do so. Social Pulse. It would be a good idea to explore what part of their technology could be used to deliver what Nitie wants to offer. Wise Mind Studios LLC.

San Jose 115

San Jose Entrepreneur United States Washington 115

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation. Intermix and its advisors weren’t fools.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Not Knowing Your Cost Of Customer Acquisition. That next level could be something like organic growth possibilities, a larger round, an acquisition target, etc. If it’s not big enough you’re either not asking for enough money (red flag) or your cost of customer acquisition is too high (bigger red flag). Having a Weak Team.

Kansas City 69

Kansas City Due Diligence Arizona Kansas 69

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). The startup must not be associated with a venture capital firm, accelerator, incubator, angel funding or seed or have received AWS Activate benefits before.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The only difference is, our high-quality content is shot by the leading social media creators, crowd-sourced from around the globe, at a fraction of the cost a client would traditionally pay. To start, our team is made up of media and technology experts who have sold companies or been a part of acquisitions/IPOs.

Software 49

Software Marketing Entrepreneur North America 49

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Mixing metaphors, the attempt to accelerate the scaling process is a bit like asking a baby to be incubated in six months (dangerous). This is not just about social media or consumerization of software. The power boat, loaded with gas, rockets out of the harbor but then runs out of gas. My personal experience echoes that.

Software 127

Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. Acquisition. Streaming media. Social media. Social networking. Social games. After playing coy and dropping hints for weeks, Microsoft has finally announced its newest incubator, the Bing Fund.

Detroit 69

Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

From cost-per-click to cost-per-mille, cost-per-acquisition, and so on, it’s difficult for businesses to determine which pricing models are best-suited for their needs, let alone how much advertising spend to dedicate to the various digital marketing channels that exist in the modern landscape.

Advertising 100

Advertising Application Development SEO Channel 100

www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tipsandtrip was born from an idea of social media consultant Juliette Bellavita and Blogo.it Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. CEO Marco Magnocavallo. They had the goal of launching a web app and an iphone app in 6 months with less than $10k.

Bootstrapping 49

Bootstrapping Italy Sweat Equity Europe 49

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

After some searching, TripAdvisor found a magical business model, representing social media and user-generated content at its best. Whether its an internally built effort or something you incubate through an acquisition (we’ve acquired over a dozen companies), keep it separate operationally. TripAdvisor’s Future.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Be the first to disrupt an existing market space. Being first is always important.

Silicon Valley 136

Silicon Valley Differentiation Angel Investor Incubator 136

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? I’ve done everything from creating content to social media outreach and it’s driving okay traffic but nothing crazy.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers. This interview with Ami sheds more light on the company. The company’s tech predicts the right app and location to present an ad based on user and cohort behaviour.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

She is regularly invited to participate as a judge for business plan competitions, as well as speak on topics including entrepreneurship, angel investing, social media, and authentic self promotion. That moves into the customer acquisition strategy. Are you doing an acquisition? Are you landing a big sale?

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Hilton E – Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur, discusses the impact of social media and technological innovation on culture, society and economic justice. For brands and publishers, tapping into Influence is critical to social media’s future. It means now is the best… ([link].

Omaha 79

Omaha Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Media 79

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

social media, ecommerce, gaming) instead of in hardware, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, transportation infrastructure, etc. While the Dept of Defense has encouraged starting new ventures, it has failed to match it with the acquisition dollars to scale them. industrial policy.

China 323

China Venture Capital Government Artificial Inteligence 323

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Research, Web prototyping, Testing and Building Tools Lists of Tools from Others HBS Startup Tribe Tools List – from Tom Eisenmann at HBS PBworks startup tools List Startup Foundry tools list Small Business tools list Groups Lean Startup Circle – Google Group for startup advice Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours The Lean (..)

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110