Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Beyond mobile phones, the same concepts can be applied to embedded systems, portable navigation devices, and laptops. As outlined a while back by Adam Holden-Bache on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, still waiting to be found: Find strategic partnerships.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2009

In association with some of the regions top trade associations/social networking groups and industry hosts, DFR '09 promises to be the largest holiday party of the season and help weave our various communities of interest into the larger collective family of professionals working in and around the technology industry. REGISTER TODAY!

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Companies want to see their social media investment drive sales.” Siegal added,“Social data holds the key. That’s how social can help build customer lifetime value.”. Close The Sale. It makes it easy to drive engagement,capture social data, and analyze it for actionable insights.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Going So-Lo: How Brands are Driving Sales & Personalizing Customer Experiences with Social, Location-Based Marketing. Thursday: Advertising and Marketing. Humanize Your Brand: How To Protect and Enhance it Using Social Media. Socially Charged Fashion: How Social + Mobile are Building Brands from the Bottom Up.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

When tickets went on sale over a month ago, we expected the regular ticket sales cycle, however we were more than surprised when Startup Weekend LA sold out in 6 hours! That’s right… just about the same amount of time it takes to sell out a Radiohead show at the Forum.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Business model: Premium brands offer select goods (often excess inventory) for sale at 40%-70% discounts; consumers need to be invited by existing member or via application to participate in private sales; HauteLook collects percentage of gross sale.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I wanted a smart NorCal investor who had done more mobile investments than I had and Jon Callaghan had very relevant relationships & experience. I still do. “And importantly Web 2.0

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The event is open to tech enthusiasts who want to join an event filled with some of the top leaders, investors and mentors from tech industry to network, find mentors and build their companies. Advertisers upload their 30 second ads and each time a user watches the ad, they receive $.50. Beast Mobile (Kirkland, WA).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). Their revenue from advertising may approach one billion dollars this year, with most consumed by bandwidth and associated costs, YouTube isn’t even profitable yet.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Create and manage your social media presence. Create a sales forecasts and financial projections regularly. Execute the 5 Step Sales Process. Recommended. Recommended.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Apps, content, mobile. . Avoid Freeloaders, Go For The Enterprise Gold.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s true that I have a functional focus on three areas: Performance-based marketing, digital television and mobile computing. In order to grow we hired successful and expensive sales people who in turn were able to (and incentivized to) sell projects at higher margins and close big deals. We knew there was value in what we provided.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. These companies advertise.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider is the CEO of Mobile Roadie , the leading self-service mobile app engagement platform. In just a few minutes, anyone (no programming knowledge required) can create a mobile app. ThinkNear helps you target mobile ads to consumers at precise locations.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Video will be inextricably linked to the future of the Internet and consumption between PCs, mobile devices and TVs will merge. Just as in the mobile battle when Apple goes closed it creates an opportunity for somebody that is substantively open. Imagine how much mobile telco money still exists in meat & potatoes.

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