Maverick Gets $2.7M For Social Network for Girls
socalTECH
APRIL 27, 2018
Los Angeles-based Maverick , a new startup launching a social network for girls, has raised $2.7M in a seed funding round, as it prepares to launch its service. READ MORE>>.
How to Connect on Social Networks
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2009
I wrote recently about etiquette when you meet people at conferences or events so now that I have this done I feel I need to say some words about connecting on social networks. Let’s start with a discussion of existing social networks and then how to approach people on them. Facebook.
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Which Social Networks are for Entrepreneurs?
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 24, 2010
Social networking is indeed the new business networking. For example, my personal interest is entrepreneurs, and MySpace is for tweens. Every social network, including MySpace, claims to be a mecca for business people to network and sell products. Entrepreneurs can find like-minded people here.
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Snap accelerator names its latest cohort
TechCrunch LA
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company. Hardworkers — a Cambridge, Mass.-based
How And Where To Connect To The Entrepreneur Universe
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 20, 2021
I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking.
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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit
Eric Greenspan
DECEMBER 5, 2009
I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. I love Namechk.com for this.
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7 Essential Steps From A Lone Entrepreneur To Success
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 18, 2021
You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network.
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Do’s and Don’ts For Entrepreneur Business Networking
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 10, 2019
I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking.
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7 Technology Entrepreneur Examples You Should Emulate
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 10, 2022
By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.
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8 Attributes Of Entrepreneurs Who Transform Society
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 19, 2023
Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Seek innovation that begets invention. Failure is an option.
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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit FAST
Eric Greenspan
DECEMBER 5, 2009
I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. I could go on and on, but in closing, my experience in using social media/networking has been short but remarkably fruitful. I love Namechk.com for this.
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Africa’s Largest and Fastest Growing Social Network | Interview with LAGbook’s Chidi Nwaogu
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Today they say its Africa’s largest and fastest growing social networking utility with over 4,000 daily new sign-ups. They also add that LAGbook ranks #2 in the city of Yaba-Lagos, where the social network was incepted, and #37 in the city of Hirtshal, Denmark. Thus, the need for social discovery networks arise.
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7 Steps To Greater Satisfaction As A New Entrepreneur
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 13, 2021
In my role as mentor to many of you aspiring entrepreneurs, I often find you convinced that all you need to start is a unique innovation or idea , and now you are ready to jump in with both feet and enjoy the ride. Remember that being an entrepreneur is all about starting and running a business, after the initial invention.
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Social Networks Don’t Automate Personal Contacts
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 20, 2011
Social networking can help, but a large list of online friends and followers is no substitute for a smaller list of personal and ongoing business relationships. Many of my younger friends use various social networks on a daily basis and think that they will thereby avoid this problem.
Name the Big Three Social Networks for Business
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 15, 2011
With the advent of social networking sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, Internet usage has totally morphed, from a serious business medium, to a social and fun medium that still means business. Here are the current big three in social networking for business: Facebook is biggest, moving from social to business.
Entrepreneur's Brilliant Companies List Pinpoint SoCal Startups
socalTECH
AUGUST 6, 2012
At least six, Southern California companies -- Nimble , ParkMe , Quarterly , Beachmint , Chromatik , and Dollar Shave Club -- have been named as one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies list today, a healthy share of the publication's annual look at the best ideas, hottest industries, and innovators.
Entrepreneurs Learn Best From Business Networking
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 28, 2013
I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. Marty Zwilling.
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In Control: Who Will Own the World of Social Networks?
SoCal Tech Calendar
APRIL 12, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009 -- In Control: Who Will Own the World of Social Networks? Socnet" proliferation amplifies issues that increasingly worry users. They are questioning "what access do 'friends of friends' have? Is my content still mine? What about advertisers?" See [link] (more).
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A Comprehensive View of Social Marketing, Social Media, and Social Networks
SoCal Tech Calendar
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 -- The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast Presents: A Comprehensive View of Social Marketing, Social Media, and Social Networks. Blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social platforms can be low-cost marketing tools (great for anyone in this economic climate!)
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Smart Entrepreneurs Plan Key Networking Activities
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 27, 2012
I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. Join and actively participate in local business organizations.
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6 Hard Questions That Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I challenge them to think beyond what I call linear extensions to a current trend, such as another “easier-to-use” app for smartphones, a new dating site for pets, or another niche social network. Great social entrepreneurs are rare.
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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder
Tech Zulu Event
APRIL 23, 2013
The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Sergey’s diverse experience as an entrepreneur, technology consultant and software executive qualifies him to lead amSTATZ’s technology development.
ViSalus, Headed by LA Tech Entrepreneur, Files For $175M IPO
socalTECH
AUGUST 16, 2012
ViSalus , a nutritional supplements maker co-founded by Los Angeles-based, technology entrepreneur Ryan Blair, has filed for an IPO, saying that it is looking to raise up to $175M in an IPO. Exchange and other details of the IPO have not yet been set for the company, whose corporate name is FVA Ventures.
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164 Maintaining Contacts is Not Social Networking
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 7, 2010
Gemassmer We all intuitively believe in maintaining personal and business contacts, but most of us don’t do well in this area, despite the advent of social networking. Today a number of social networks have emerged, all designed to enable us to stay in touch, keep each other updated and maintain a sense of continuity.
Social Search – What Entrepreneur Needs To Know
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 3, 2014
In contrast, social networking sites drove a record number of clicks, up 20% over the prior year. Clearly there is a shift occurring in users'' behavior, as social networks continue to hone their product discovery and purchase capabilities. Google is great at search, yet their G+ social network wasn’t the most successful.
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6 Values And Priorities That Investors Will Relate To
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 7, 2023
Young entrepreneurs often are so excited by new technology or their latest invention that they forget to translate it into a value proposition that their customers or potential investors can understand and relate to. Entrepreneurs who make this case effectively will get the decision they want, no matter how esoteric their technology.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 8, 2012
Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. To compete, startups must find ways to provide customers an easier, faster, more pervasive connection to digital networks, via mobile as well as the Internet.
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LA Entrepreneurs Connecting Communities
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 1, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011 -- LA Entrepreneurs Connecting Communities. Come mingle with the top social networks of L.A This networking event for L.A entrepreneurs will feature presentations from the main speakers and QandA session with an additional panel of local startups.
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6 Ways To Learn The Realities For Starting A Business
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
The successful entrepreneurs I have met and worked with over the years all seem to share that passion for learning, and they see rapid market change not as a problem, but as an opportunity for them to move ahead of the crowd in changing the world. Successful entrepreneurs love to share, but they respond better to pull rather than push.
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How To Snag Lunch With A High-Profile Entrepreneur
InfoChachkie
MAY 12, 2014
I recently received an email from a former student in which he described how he was able to secure a lunch meeting with a high-profile entrepreneur who is operating multiple ventures in parallel. When I attended Startup Weekend in Berkeley, I was inspired by parallel entrepreneur Adam Cheyer''s keynote speech. Share and Enjoy.
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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments
TechCrunch LA
MAY 12, 2020
Hardworkers : a professional network for blue-collar workers. Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. SketchAR : an augmented reality drawing app with social tie-ins. TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning.
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socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
Our profile this morning is with Network Automation , a Los Angeles company competing in the IT automation market. Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. You are self funded too, we recall.
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How To Build A Great Startup In The Age Of Disruption
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 7, 2023
The cost of entry to the entrepreneur lifestyle is at an all-time low, but the challenge of winning and success is at an all-time high. Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. Entrepreneurs in this category are real risk takers, such as Elon Musk.
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How Closely Do You Follow Networking Etiquette Rules?
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 25, 2016
I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking.
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6 Keys To Translating Technology Into Business Value
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 15, 2020
Young entrepreneurs often are so excited by new technology or their latest invention that they forget to translate it into a value proposition that their customers or potential investors can understand and relate to. Entrepreneurs who make this case effectively will get the decision they want, no matter how esoteric their technology.
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7 Tips For Entrepreneurs Who Like To Work Alone
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 29, 2013
You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. So I thought I would drop back to some essentials in building and nurturing business relationships (most of these apply to personal relationships as well): Build your network.
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MySpace Faces Challenge From KPCB's sFund
socalTECH
OCTOBER 21, 2010
KPCB announced its new sFund, a $250M fund which will invest in entrepreneurs in the social space, specifically highlighting Facebook as "the best place to build the next generation" of social businesses. KPCB said its new sFund will focus on the next generation of social entrepreneurs.
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BeLinked: How Professional Networking Can Improve Your Dating Life
socalTECH
OCTOBER 10, 2014
LinkedIn is one of the largest social networks, with 300 million users, and we fell that it has a higher quality user base. Max Fischer: There definitely is the idea that LinkedIn is a professional networking site. startup entrepreneur interview mobile smartphone relationship date tinder linkedin dating belinked fischer'
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Women's Networking Event
SoCal Tech Calendar
JANUARY 21, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 -- Savor the Success, a boutique social network and PR cooperative for female entrepreneurs, will host its first Orange County chapter event. See [link] (more).
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5 Current Technologies Still Have Room For Innovation
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 9, 2022
A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. His checklists cover everything from building a vision, to consistently delivering results, for entrepreneurs up to mature business executives. Social Media.
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133 7 Habits Practiced By Highly Effective Entrepreneurs
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 17, 2015
In my years of working with entrepreneurs, I have heard many times the promise that their new idea will create the next Amazon or Apple, but I rarely hear the more important promise that the founder will practice all the good habits of winning entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs. We have enough social network startups.
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117 Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal
socalTECH
JULY 7, 2010
One complaint we sometimes hear from venture capitalists visiting Southern California for the first time, is the difficulty of finding experienced entrepreneurs and executives. socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region.
Namesake Unveils Social Jobs Service
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
Los Angeles-based Namesake , the latest startup of Dan Gould and Brian Norgard, has revealed that it is working on a service to help users use their social networks to find a job or promote jobs opportunities. and was at Fox Audience Network, and Norgard also was a co-founder at Ad.ly Gould co-founded Newroo and Ad.ly
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Entrepreneurs Need More Relationships And Fewer Friends
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
Successful entrepreneurs understand the difference between a good business relationship with more people and having more friends. In fact, the focus on social networking platforms, starting with Facebook, has destroyed the meaning of the word friend and even changed it from a noun to a verb.
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