SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. Due to the incredible power represented by these networks, we believe that managers need a system to understand and monitor the ever-changing value of this key asset.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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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. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. And social networks enabled rapid growth and also the ability to more easily find and play with friends or make new ones.

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition. Arun Ravi from San Francisco, California, discussed inCircled , a proposed new social network that would be significantly more selective about only involving 'inner circle' friends.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

The include single custom reports that replace all/most current standard reports in GA on Mobile, Content, Paid Search and Acquisition. Let's say you want to analyze your social media performance. The All Traffic folder has Social spread out in Channels, Treemaps, Source/Medium and likely in Referrals. Seven more!

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Recent surveys show the greatest demand for mentoring intervention falls under these five categories: Customer acquisition and retention. Social media. Let’s say we choose customer acquisition and retention. There may be a real estate certification class in Florida or a computer programming convention in California.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Besides the natural fit with eBay, he wanted the buyer to feel good following the acquisition and certainly the investors in StubHub were happy. Upon graduation, he knew he wanted to open a German brewery restaurant in California and the passion and determination drove a lot of the early success. Heres another bonus lesson.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

For everything you do it is important to measure your effectiveness of all three phases of your effort: Acquisition. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics. here are the metrics I’d recommend to analyze your acquisition greatness: Delivery rate = (# of emails sent – # of bounce backs) / # of emails sent. But there is more….

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The average customer acquisition cost of advertising on Yahoo or Netscape was well over $40. Peter, Max, Luke Nosek , and I held an off-site at my grandparents’ house in Gualala, California, to figure this out. Everyone said, “Oh, that’s crazy. You’re giving out money.” Actually, it was quite rational.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services).

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Its main customers include China’s Huawei Technologies, Israel’s Ceragon Networks and Sweden’s Ericsson. Provigent is Broadcom’s eighth acquisition in Israel, and brings the value of its acquisitions here to $1 billion. Broadcom, which has a market cap of $21.7

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

45 Bloghology Social Network on 01.14.09 50/mile, even a 5 mile each way commute (which is pretty short in California), is $5/day = $100/mth. 44 Steve P on 01.14.09 at 12:19 am Once again, a great post and a satisfying stream of comments is ruined by trackback spam. #45 at 11:47 am very true. at 7:30 am [.] also add up.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Broadcom, headquartered in Irvine, California, is one of the world’s largest fabless communications semiconductor companies, and addresses both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video, data and multimedia. iSkoot is Qualcomm’s first acquisition in Israel. ERNST & YOUNG SEES RISE IN ISRAELI ACQUISITIONS FOR 2010.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

There were no social networks, let alone sharing economy then, so it took a while to take off. Very few startups say they’re building products for California or the US. With competitors in the US often 10 times bigger, they’d become an acquisition target. When would you go for an acquisition versus an organic launch?

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I believe that it was erroneous not to answer the two questions above, it was erroneous to be tempted by the Big Numbers and not understand how Social Media channels actually worked (streams, home pages, personalization, rankings and more). if your business should be on that network and 2. So, let's fix that error. They should.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Social/Sharing. great web customer acquisition tutorials. analytics for social media and online. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. California Israel Chamber of Commerce. Social Commerce. Social CRM. Social Inbox.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Doctors are in high demand, not just by their patients, but by startups looking to create social networks, marketplaces, and portals around their expertise. Today, HealthTab announced the acquisition of Q&A site Avvo Health specifically to increase the number of doctors within its network, doubling it to 30,000.

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