SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2008

Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. The presenters had some interesting things to say on a wide variety of topics. It is almost universal that there are opportunities around social networking. Content is often a defining mechanism to create these networks.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Community Audience 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

Presenting Companies. A place for geeks to share what they’ve done, who they did it with and connect with great companies and communities. In Geeklist we provide the global developer community a place to get credit where credit is due. Lifestyle community where users express & share their interests for brands they love.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Two months ago, we published our second eBook, Understanding Social Platforms. In it, we discuss the dynamics of each social platform type: messaging, private networks, public networks, enterprise networks, and communities. You can download the slide deck here.

Valuation 120

Valuation Metrics Networking Community 120

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

It’s the IT guy’s job to just install, present it, and walk out of the room. Online tutorial videos, presentations, webinars and other forms of support should be optimized to make the onboarding process smooth and unconfusing. Like any new installation (from the new coffee machine to the new email client) an example needs to be set.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Social Network Social Media Canada 130

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

If we were right, we’d see the results in their final presentations – after 8 weeks of class the information/learning density in the those presentations should be really high. Given Stanford’s 10 week quarters, we planned for eight weeks of lecture and the last two weeks for team final presentations. But we could be wrong.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

evolved around trends that focused on the idea of user collaboration , sharing of user-generated content, and social networking, so too does the concept of collaborative governance. The good news is that IT professionals have a blueprint from the companies that pioneered the use of the World Wide Web for collaborative data governance.

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Government Technical Review Asia Japan 113

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Engage the Austin community As with any initiative of this kind, community engagement is critical. Then when you are ready to reach out to the community, leverage your elected officials’ contacts, relationships, and events. Be as transparent as possible, using a community engagement portal or a public dashboard.

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Government Technical Review Austin Community 48

Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. While lightbulbs were already present before his time, they were extremely expensive and not for public consumption. 9- Discord. Photo Credit: Garrett Hayes.

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 78

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Social media, mobile technologies and altering demographics present businesses of every size with tremendous opportunities. Social networks play an increasingly more important role in the product review process. Influencing the Social Masses. Offering More Language Options. in both Spanish and English.

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Customer Retention Social Media Technical Review 154

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The collaborative web arrived after the social web hit a tipping point. That is the very month that Facebook became the largest social network, outpacing MySpace. The idea of working together in communities to share best practices around creation has inspired companies that get people doing stuff like Makerbot and Windowfarms.

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Web Curation Open Source Demand 127

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

As the former CEO of a professional expert network , I’m a firm believer in the value of speedy access to relevant experts. I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. How did you become interested in design?

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Serbia Design Community Flash 94

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A few years ago social networks boomed, causing changes in the way people socialize, but also how companies approached marketing. We have seen major social networks like MySpace, Friendster or Orkut closed and others like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIN transform our habits on the internet. Community Manager.

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Social Media Media Social Network Networking 100

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Build a support knowledge base and community forum with Zendesk , Uservoice , or GetSatisfaction. WordPress itself is free, and you can purchase inexpensive plugins that automatically transform your website into a membership site, e-commerce portal, social network, and even daily deals site.

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Artificial Inteligence Cofounder Startup Widget 167

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In this article, we’ll look at how the social media landscape has evolved, and what you can do to grow your presence and create a community of loyal fans. What does a good social media strategy look like? Recent years have changed social media for better and worse. Brands have to work harder and smarter to earn it.

Social Media 142

Social Media Media Developer Marketing 142

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Using this model, entrepreneurs build products and plans based on what they think about their target market, then present the offer after the fact. Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. The Premature Death Of Private Event Based Social Networks.

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Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 126

The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2020

Bright commercials, catchy banners in social networks, recommendations of influencers or a colorful business card? You can contact the event planner to make a presentation of the brand to provide customers with an opportunity to have a real life experience of the company’s product. Which are the best for brand awareness?

Social Media 105

Social Media Audience Social Network Database 105

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 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy.

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Wiki Entrepreneur Cofounder Government 120

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

it wasn’t clear that you have buying airtime working today, your presentation made it sound like you had small currency values transferring working today, my vote went here. Chouette - maybe have the value proposition as one of the first things in your presentation, I was confused as to why Chouette was in the CleanTech category.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can also help individuals and businesses to promote their brands online, including on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Classmates, Bebo, Yelp, Foursquare and others. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design.

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Small Business Web Design Marketing 123

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can also help individuals and businesses to promote their brands online, including on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Classmates, Bebo, Yelp, Foursquare and others. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design.

Small Business 122

Small Business Web Design Marketing 122

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Anyone in the community can edit posts and frequent users are allowed to vote irrelevant questions off the site. PartnerUp If you have a question that can be expressed in fewer than 140 characters, the PartnerUp community will likely have an answer. Thankfully responses aren’t restricted with a character limit. STOKED!!!!

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

it wasn’t clear that you have buying airtime working today, your presentation made it sound like you had small currency values transferring working today, my vote went here. Chouette – maybe have the value proposition as one of the first things in your presentation, I was confused as to why Chouette was in the CleanTech category.

CTO Hire 40

CTO Hire Cofounder Fractional CTO San Francisco 40

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Local content – In addition to your regular content, be sure to include content that revolves around your area, events, local happenings, and so on, so that your audience is aware that you care about the community (this is also another way to alert Google where you operate). Are you present on all relevant social channels?

Software Review 66

Software Review Technical Review SEO Reputation 66

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

First up in our speaker spotlight series is an edited transcript of our Q&A with Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , a non-profit working to distribute beneficial goods to rural communities in Kenya. We first ran a problem discovery exercise and then a solution presentation one. We went straight into customer discovery.

Kenya 60

Kenya Lean Community Africa 60

YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2016

But as Daniel Goh pointed out in one of his earlier presentations back in 2010, gamification has been one of the most prominent ways to grow over the past few years. This is a strategy that has been successfully used by social networks, ecommerce stores and even enterprise businesses to drive customer engagement and build revenues.

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eCommerce Social Network Aggregator Lead Generation 100

Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Social technologies that are widely available today enable, for the first time, customer experience innovation at large scale. Customer generated content in the form of community and forum posts, comments, Tweets, Facebook Wall posts, and much more is at it’s core earned media. This is customer experience gone wrong.

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Customer Technical Review Software Review Analytics 47

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Page URLs: The words present in an actual link in the browser. Social buttons: The search engines love sharable content. Adding social buttons on your product pages, blog posts, or anything else on your site makes it easy for people to share it with their social networks, which in turn, boosts your SEO value.

eCommerce 77

eCommerce Technical Review Software Review XML 77

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Gracias, Rommel!

Venezuela 70

Venezuela Software Review Design Programming 70

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Once you have defined your buyer persona, it’s time to choose the right platform where your audiences are present. Not just social, you have the power to sell natively on messaging apps and online communities. Nimble – This platform lets you reach the right prospects over social media in a quick and easy manner.

Social Media 96

Social Media Media Sales Audience 96

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Just for reference, Slidebean is a SaaS presentation software where users can add content, and a finished presentation is designed automatically. Jun-15: Community Manager (growth team). Two major publications on the launch of our platform: DreamIt Ventures’ Slidebeam Hopes to Be Instagram for Presentations.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

The hackathon follows a similar format of a Startup Weekend, Friday night – networking, idea pitches, some teams form, Saturday – teams done forming, hack hack hack, and Sunday - hack, submit, present your hack. Before the weekend, all the attendees can create profiles on CrowdVine.com, a social network for events.

San Jose 60

San Jose API Coder Ruby 60

Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 24, 2011

Clearly it is the ability to technology to efficiently connect companies with consumers and with social networks the number of channels that companies have to maintain in order to connect with customers has been blown up to a daunting number. If customer service is the new marketing then the Community Manager is the new CMO.

Community 43

Community Management Differentiation Social Network 43

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2013

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities, where people relate to and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. I’m seeing a renewed appreciation of culture and values in business these days.

Startup 251

Startup Leadership Social Network Metrics 251

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities where people relate to, and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. They drive the market, rather than the other way around.

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Leadership Social Network Small Business Metrics 253