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APRIL 15, 2010

Finally, I HATE the name. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. My bet: within 18 months they will change the name and go multi-stream. Sounds like somebody didn’t do their homework on this name. uh, hello!

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

I know that many media outlets would like to portray this in a different way but knowing many of these individuals I believe it is true for most. When companies start to make huge sums of money it’s always easy for the media to question the integrity of the company. I also know him to not be a very happy man.

Technical Review 284

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. In her well-regarded (but boringly named) book “ Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages ” Carlota Perez outlines the history of many of our great leaps forward in innovation. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

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JUNE 28, 2018

The more people that see your brand as the innovator the more “earned media” the company gets and the product becomes synonymous with the category. name your city]? When you think about the category of scooters you think about Bird and that becomes a brand your friends want to try. You don’t “Bing” information or “Hulu and chill.”

San Francisco 256

San Francisco Valuation Technical Review Los Angeles 256

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MARCH 22, 2011

Every night you are just hanging out with big name bands and the teams around them that brought them to their peak.&#. Given that I hadn’t had time to change out of my t-shirt (I had promised Jonathan Strauss I would wear to support his company), I tried to keep a low profile here [full shirt: Effing Social Media, How Does it Work?

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Technical Cofounder Austin Hosting Cofounder 294

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly 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. was the “static&# web.

Technical Review 286

Technical Review Advertising Early Stage Internet 286

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JUNE 6, 2012

It was especially influential in my mind in thinking about media. At the simplest level you can think about markets in terms of the number of times media is consumed and/or purchased by people plotted against the total number of content of that media type that is available. Why is that? That was the only way.

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Media South Korea Distribution Technical Review 302

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APRIL 21, 2013

This morning I was reading my social media and came across an article that Christine Tsai had posted on Facebook. So I started noticing hot sauces more and the more I looked the more I noticed this funny rooster bottle with a strange sounding name I couldn’t pronounce and that familiar green cap. Where was it from?

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Vietnam Los Angeles Entrepreneur Thailand 415

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APRIL 19, 2011

Consumers responded to name and concept well, solves real problem, o Took 4 months to build initial prototype. o Their strong skill was online media buying and optimization – they rarely would do CPA deals – mostly buying CPM. . - Getting started: o Matt founded LowerMyBills.com in Dec 99, exited to Experian in Jan 05 for $400M.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. Media relationships. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it.

Partner 340

Partner Los Angeles South Africa Cap Table 340

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. If you want to have a public debate then at least have the decency to do it using your real name! It’s a powerful concept.

Social Network 329

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

By now you probably know that Netflix is splitting its business into two parts: its digital streaming business (retains the name Netflix) and its DVD mailing business, which was its original business (to be called Qwikster). Netflix can stop having to answer questions about its DVD business. A note for industry. I argued ages ago that Yahoo!

Los Angeles 329

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JUNE 8, 2010

We learned this weekend that it was named after his East Hampton home. I really enjoyed learning more about Buddy Media and meeting Michael Lazerow. I’m typing this from the lawn of Alan Patricof’s “Greycroft” home in East Hampton – my first time in the Hamptons.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

It’s something you must earn over time by living up to the name you define. If you choose your name well and it represents what your customers value in you then it will be memorable, differentiated and meaningful. Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media).

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Ireland Jordan Portfolio Flash 324

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MAY 10, 2014

Anyone who knows me well knows that I have a few brands & media properties that I truly love and for which I have huge loyalty. Technology is disrupting all types of media and talk radio will be no exception. And of course there are virulent debates about whether publicly funded media should exist at all. Virgin America.

Los Angeles 299

Los Angeles Angel Investor Hosting Media 299

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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. I had no idea who Paddy was but I kept hearing his name from different people so I’m guessing he was politely persistent at scale.

Ireland 392

Ireland Global Las Vegas Switzerland 392

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

They had signed up Gawker Media and the New York Post. They had signed up Glam Media and TMZ. In this period we decided to invest in both GumGum and this new product line, that was later to be named Bedrock. More interesting but still not my cuppa tea. These guys seem to be making progress. That’s a great idea.

Entrepreneur 291

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

in fact we still look at many deals in the media sector whose main objective is to entertain people. .” The interesting thing is that we had parallel discussions about Ag Tech and about “wanting to fund stuff with more meaning.” 6SensorLabs. We have a few in the pipeline and a few funded but not yet announced.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The headlines in the media are filled with that latest stats. How to Interpret Analyst Reports. Stats sell. The stats are often quoted from the latest reports. People then parrot them around like they’re fact when most of them are complete bullsh*t. People throw them around at cocktail parties. of all statistics are made up.

Investment Bankers 415

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AUGUST 10, 2009

One of the obvious ways is to click on “Find People&# on Twitter and search for your name. But one of the oversights for many people is that they list their Twitter handle as their name making them very hard to find in Twitter [.]. Tags: Social Media social networking Twitter.

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Social Network Social Media Naming Networking 225

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JUNE 20, 2014

Every politician in the country knows this as well as every consumer brand, every retailer, every restaurant and every media company. And as my Media Redef feed this past week reminded me Hispanics over-index for watching movies and they share their movie experiences 26% more than non-Hispanics.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

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JANUARY 24, 2015

But over time I’ve seen the same names through the years and I know all of these people by name if not by face. If somebody like Cookie Marenco or Phil Sugar ever pulled me aside at an event I wouldn’t know what they looked like but by name I’d immediately chat with them. I like engaging with people on Twitter.

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Networking Conversion Naming New York 150

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I’ve spent a lot of my career thinking about digital and online video (with investments in companies like Maker Studios) so for that reason amongst many, I was excited to open the Upfront Summit a few weeks ago by interviewing Meg Whitman about Quibi and the digital media space. Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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AUGUST 10, 2009

One of the obvious ways is to click on “Find People&# on Twitter and search for your name. . But one of the oversights for many people is that they list their Twitter handle as their name making them very hard to find in Twitter Search. (e.g. if I listed msuster as my name rather than Mark Suster). Anything.

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Social Network Social Media Search Naming 216

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AUGUST 15, 2010

One person who doesn’t waste this opportunity is Sam Jones of Formation Media. I’ve met Sam several times and each time I’ve been at an event with him I’ve heard his opening line, “My name is Sam Jones. I run a company called Formation Media. We set up Formation Media to bring that experience to the Internet.

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Elevator Pitch Southern California Media Hosting 315

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it. I’m looking at how the digital living room will change media consumption. .&# It is the new calling card. It is the new cocktail party conversation. We list it on our bio’s as bragging rights. It is slowly becoming Florida Condos.

Florida 299

Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

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APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” Rebrand with a name that would authentically lay out our values. ” Numero uno. I was nowhere to be found. Invest more heavily in platform services.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

This is important … If you send somebody a message and you START it with an @name then the only people who will see your message are people who follow you and people who follow the person you replied to. Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. More advanced: 1. Most people don’t seem to know this.

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Social Network Social Media Valuation Naming 291

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JULY 15, 2011

These were good packages in the pre social media world at helping figure out who was driving your traffic. to track all of my social media sharing behavior. In the social media world that tool is awe.sm. It’s why clients like GroupOn, Zynga, Gilt Groupe and TopSpin Media are using Awe.sm. Today they’re wrong.

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Analytics Social Media Campaign Viral 292

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

(Hint: 60 million US Latinos driving US growth engine) I am beyond excited to announce the Herb Scannell has agreed to move from NYC to Los Angeles to take on the role of CEO at mitú, the fast growing Latino digital media company, serving more than 100 million monthly unique viewers. Yes, with a “B.” There is no more Latino-only market.

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JULY 26, 2016

And his name is Elon Musk. https://medium.com/media/842efeff51d5ecefbe43f913f0a62c23/href How to Build a Startup & Understanding Venture Capital was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Twitter was a podcasting company.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. Harlem Shake.

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APRIL 27, 2013

It would be easier in terms of getting access to angels, VCs, the media, whatever. So … Am I looking to add 8 trips / year to [name your location not already on my annual itinerary]. If their commitment to staying local is weak I normally say, “Well, it certainly would be easier on you to be in a larger community.

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JULY 16, 2013

When polled 88% of marketing professionals said they couldn’t accurately measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and the majority said lack of ROI measurement is their single greatest frustration with social media (Forbes). If you sent multiple Tweets you’d want to know which time of day was more effective.

Technical Review 307

Technical Review Marketing SEM Campaign 307

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Their name alone is enough to get meetings set up. This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. They know that the money they invest may be lost. Their time is too valuable to call you every day wondering if you spent their $20-$100k wisely. They know all the VCs for intros. They are calling cards. They are full of wisdom.

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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. Make sure they know your name, your company and what you do. It’s “earned media.&#. Many of them are painfully boring. Don’t.

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