SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

Clark Landry: We're working with Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Thrive Capital, the Founder Collective, and Baroda Ventures. I was a co-founder of a company called TagWorld, which was a social networking website we ended up selling to Viacom. from a group of VCs and angels. Which VCs were those?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Understand the basic tools – the social media trinity. Blogging (Wordpress), micro-blogging (Twitter), and social networks are the trinity. Key social networks are Facebook (500 million consumers) and LinkedIn (60 million professionals). Put your social network links on your stationery, business cards, and email.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002. Try to capitalize on your strengths, rather than trying to fix all your weaknesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

I like the ten steps he defines, which I can summarize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

I agree with my friend Lon Safko, and his classic book “ The Social Media Bible ,” which asserts your team can be successful at social without the cost of an expensive expert or agency, by following these five basic steps: Start with the dominant players. Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 billion users).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues].

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it requires at least 100M users and $50M investment. Financial forecast and metrics.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

It's a full-blown, B2B social network. it combined the metrics of how a company is rated, if a company has taken control of their profile, how much data we have, and how recently it was updated, and how often that profile is used by users. When we thought we had the right mix, we went to look for angel capital, and raised $1.3M

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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. Find avenues to network with these folks. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? Weve done one so far, and its great.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

For example, the concept of an online platform for social networking is a simple one, and has been attempted by thousands of entrepreneurs past and present. In fact, I still hear startup idea variations on social networking more often than any other, yet most people can only name a couple that have really worked.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. Here’s why.

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