socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. We sat down with David to catch up on what Geni and Yammer are doing, plus got his insights into entrepreneurship and the Paypal mystique.

Yammer 133

Yammer Geni Startup Southern California 133

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today.

Google 216

Google Tool Email Sales 216

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. In business you spend your life in email. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. The company was called Red Beacon. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. Nice sweep!

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Sanebox (Email Organization) : Service that uses algorithms to organize your email into what’s important and what’s not. The only con with the web application is that it can’t be used offline. Yammer (Internal Communication): It’s like a private twitter for your company. It works amazing well. Tips: Trust it.

Tool 112

Tool Tips Yammer Organization 112

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web.

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We collaborate using Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Yammer, Skype, GoToMeeting, Fuze and hundreds of other tools not available to the last generation of whiteboard, personal meeting or teleconference users. The mobile web will become what desktop Internet became in the 1990’s – the standard platform for anyone doing business.

Mobile 156

Mobile Commerce Software Review Yammer 156