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.
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.
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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. CRM systems today don't do a good job of even integrating email, much less social. You have to BCC messages to even get them into the system.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 24, 2013
That''s why people tend to gravitate towards SMS messages, rather than something like email. We''ve very much taken a play out of the Yammer playbook. Yammer used this to create lead generation from the top down. Yammer did that very adeptly, and I think that fits extremely well with our model.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. ” When merchants sign up MyTime then helps them with marketing activities through marketing automation tools they’ve build across SEM, social, and email. The company was called Red Beacon. Nice sweep!
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 29, 2010
5: Q: “What’s the best way to get a VC’s attention in an email&# – I’ve written about this topic so more in depth is here on How to Access a VC as well as I Emailed a VC and Never Heard Back – What Now? Second – don’t send unsolicited emails to VCs. Minutes 18.30 – 26.30.
Frank Addante
OCTOBER 24, 2012
Sanebox (Email Organization) : Service that uses algorithms to organize your email into what’s important and what’s not. YouMail (Voicemail Automation): Voicemail service that transcribes your voicemail into text and sends you an email and/or text message. It works amazing well. Tips: Trust it.
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