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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? So did the media. This is why many people are so excited by how much traffic they’re now generating from social media.

Technical Review 286

Technical Review Advertising Early Stage Internet 286

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APRIL 19, 2011

o Their strong skill was online media buying and optimization – they rarely would do CPA deals – mostly buying CPM. As internet crashed media became cheaper so they bought more and their tracking and analysis became really good so they did better. Later they became big business in Financial services lead-gen.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

If you were caught sending out an email on your Blackberry you had to quickly whip out your iPhone to show that – wait! But over time email became pervasive in our culture. And email was the most obvious thing they were missing. – we all needed email. And by content I mean email. Palm obliterated.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

It an era of social media and newsreaders titles matter a lot. So I need to stand out in two areas in which I compete for attention – social media and news readers. The three must reads for me daily are: The NY Times, TechMeme & Media Redefined. I never saw it go out with a “tip @techmeme” on Twitter.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

Digital Media was an obvious theme because it’s one in which LA (where I’m based) and NY (where I spend a lot of time) have strong assets, companies and management teams. While the media industry is driven by a combination of subscriptions and advertising – it’s clear that the latter plays a unique role in media.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I have a good friend who spent years building relationships with senior executives at media companies. Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). Domain experience also brings relationships.

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APRIL 10, 2016

In a world that is hyper competitive – even amongst VCs – I can honestly say that not only is the media recognition accurate but it is amongst the proudest days I’ve had in developing Upfront Ventures and our future. I also noticed that inbound emails were no longer directed at just me. He’s a force of nature.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

You have this perception that they’re billing you for the lunch meeting they invited you to and the friendly banter emails flying back and forth. of Stubbs Alderton, a firm that focused exclusively on early-stage tech, media and game companies in Southern California. I saw the same bad behavior in consulting.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Just notice how many VC emails you get after your TechCrunch article or after you were on stage at TC50. Most notably you need to understand Earned Media and how blogging, public speaking and social media play an important role in the new PR landscape. How could he have turned this into a positive?

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PR Bankruptcy Venture Capital Acquisition 291

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

You will not fundamentally change consumers media consumption habits. For the first time in history content producers can build a direct relationship with views through subscribers, email addresses and mobile phone number. How will you grab email addresses? The concise guide is here. hours of TV per day.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Some board members spend all of their time in the meeting on electronic devices doing email or even checking social media. Some boards are designed to showcase each and every member of management by having everybody lead a 20-minute update only to find out that no time has been allotted for discussion or debate.

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APRIL 21, 2010

The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. In business you spend your life in email. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

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Venture Capital Social Network Angel Investor Chad 265

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AUGUST 30, 2015

Technology is of course a dual-edge sword but the media discussions of how it affects human interactions all too often focuses on the downsides. Like many of you I dragged my mobile phone into my bedroom at night and would occasionally check email or Twitter or Facebook before bed. A few weeks in and I have no regret.

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Mobile Technology Email Programming 150

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

You originally had to have a.edu email address to even join. Social Capital / Earned Media – For many people keeping a blog is a way to build up “social capital” or as it’s sometimes referred to as “earned media.” Turns out anonymity mattered. Along came Facebook. Of course they can be duped.

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Social Network Iran Naming Networking 329

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AUGUST 4, 2009

If you truly want it to be private stick to DM or email (or better yet … telephone!). Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. Did I miss any idiosyncracies? Make sure to add them to the comments.

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Social Network Social Media Valuation Naming 291

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AUGUST 15, 2010

One person who doesn’t waste this opportunity is Sam Jones of Formation Media. I run a company called Formation Media. We set up Formation Media to bring that experience to the Internet. We set up Formation Media to bring that experience to the Internet. My partner was in product management at Demand Media.

Elevator Pitch 315

Elevator Pitch Southern California Media Hosting 315

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APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 6:00 – 7:30). 22:00-33:00).

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MARCH 25, 2016

You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. SEO doesn’t just happen – it requires a content strategy, inbound links, relevancy, keyword strategies, etc. And influencers may help once or twice but ultimately nothing is free. Then you need to understand the economic benefit to the user.

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Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

Then I get people sending me Twitter comments, blog comments and tons & tons of email intros. When it’s your turn in the ambush greeting line get all of your energy pumped up and with great enthusiasm say, “Hey Mark, I really enjoyed your panel on social media marketing. 80% of the people never do. Plan a dinner.

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JUNE 28, 2011

The biggest media attention in our industry went to the so-called “super angels&# during the 2009/10 timeframe and while I don’t believe there is such thing as a super angel I believe that much media attention was deserved. Spawning of Micro VCs. At least in the consumer & business web. I’m not a shareholder.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

If you attract names like these you’re bound to attract some media attention and then Chad Hurley dropped the bomb that he was leaving YouTube while he was at the f.ounders event. He began messaging and emailing me to try and get me to come out to the event, which he was now turning into a conference called Web Summit.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

He previously co-founded Charlie , a Los Angeles based media company and interactive agency. Sam was also a member of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and inaugural new media team and previously worked for Google, Credit Suisse, The Colbert Report, and Senators John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. Come be a part of our future success.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Incubator Startup 287

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AUGUST 2, 2009

Capture the data – the currency of online direct marketing prior to Twitter was the email address. If a brand had your email address and permission from you to send occasional messages to you then you could effectively market new products or services. Tags: Social Media social networking startup technology Twitter.

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Conversion Management Social Network Philadelphia 235

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APRIL 28, 2010

They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. I first heard about the company from Dave McClure and have tracked it on the sidelines a bit since then. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. It’s a hot but still relatively nascent market area.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

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MARCH 3, 2010

Many of us in the technology, media and VC world sit on panels at lot. Things to know: mix of entrepreneurs, big tech company execs, service providers, media people, VCs, etc. It’s “earned media.&#. I first met Aydin at a DealMaker Media event where, you guessed it, we sat on a panel together. And thy topic.

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APRIL 26, 2015

I see many good video companies (media companies, mobile apps, distribution platforms, monetization platforms) but it’s often hard to distinguish good from great. Second, videos that we do share end up in fragments across Facebook, Instagram, cloud services, email or text messages. That is Ferris.

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Video Cloud Cofounder Mobile 150

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JANUARY 24, 2016

I knew that every media company I backed and every eCommerce company I worked with was getting significantly more engagement in FB than in Twitter so I figured the same had to be true for me as a blogger but I wasn’t sure how to make the transition. So I became more interested in experimenting with Facebook.

Social Network 150

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APRIL 17, 2010

They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!

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APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team.

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JANUARY 24, 2015

I was waiting for my son’s basketball game to start this morning and with the morning’s emails all drained I turned to Twitter and saw this Tweet from Marshall Kirkpatick. Every social media analytics platform, video platform with data or similar that I’ve seen show the same phenomenon.

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JUNE 15, 2010

I heard word that a new project was starting in Tokyo to work for the board of directors of a very large and well known Japanese electronics company to work on their Internet strategy looking at media, devices and networks. I emailed him a copy of my internal resume with my relevant experience and asked to have a phone call.

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MARCH 8, 2010

Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. The obvious starting point is to email a few friends and let them know you have a new blog. Don’t be overbearing – just an email saying, wanted to let you know about my new blog. You’re not trying to build a consumer website like Mint.com.

Analytics 286

Analytics Audience Hosting Email 286

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JANUARY 17, 2011

I recently invested in a company in the media & entertainment sector (this will be announced in a couple of months) so I’ve been thinking a lot about how the industry works, why the structure has evolved the way it did, why the company I invested in has had so much success and what this all implies for the future. If so, why?

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

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AUGUST 26, 2019

No, Seriously … Exactly six years ago today I received an email from my friend Ynon Kreiz introducing me to Andrew Stalbow and Petri Järvilehto. Some Seriously Great News. Ynon had been the CEO of Maker Studios and I trust his opinion a great deal so of course I took the meeting. It felt pretty, pretty good.

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Intellectual Property Finland Mobile Forecast 33

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MARCH 1, 2011

The media eats it up as they always need something to write about. Be unique, find free marketing opportunities and use social media to build your following. One of the most important and most misunderstood rules of our new open & social media is that you need to engage directly with your audience. Engage with your audience.

Entrepreneur 398

Entrepreneur Atlanta Audience SEM 398

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JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. When I get these inevitable emails or calls I respond the same way, “It’s a shame for me that I’m too late to your process.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

As the standard gained popularity more people started “subscribing&# to output of their favorite content – either as an email newsletter or as an XML feed into their RSS Reader such as Google Reader. Feedburner, founded by now-Twitter-CEO Dick Costolo. It’s at the core of what Delicious was.

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