Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

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. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. Due to the incredible power represented by these networks, we believe that managers need a system to understand and monitor the ever-changing value of this key asset.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. They are not alone. This article was first posted in The Financialist.].

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

PeterLongBSCF : Peter Long is the President and CEO of Blue Shield of California Foundation, tweeting about making quality health care accessible for all. jcanales : Jim Canales, President and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, shares how they’re working to expand opportunities for the people of California.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Take lots of them out for free coffee, food, beer. Ask them about your concept. You should definitely hit up the Startup Weekend events as well. Make sure you meet the people who run these events.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Encino, California-based technology and online sampling company uSamp just introduced SurveyBuilder™ ( www.surveybuilder.com ), an online self-service solution that provides online survey authoring tools that allows small to medium businesses, non-profits and academia to create and populate online surveys.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

social network start up – trademark and copyright are more likely. Under California law, employers may own inventions that are “related to employer’s reasonably anticipated R&D.” For example if you are a: Medical device company – patents are key. Enterprise software company – copyright and trade secrets are probable.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 19, 2012

The young companies that took the stage Wednesday to kick off the three-day startup fest in Santa Clara, California, demonstrated a surprisingly wide variety of software and Web services. The player can conduct transactions even when embedded in a social network or third-party website. "If

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Visit your friends and ask them to bring you to their dev shop. Ask your friends to visit their dev shop/programmers on their behalf. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively.

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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. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

As the number of users increases, you can provide incentives for these users to share your app on social networks. Perl language developer Larry Wall tells a great anecdote : “When they built the University of California at Irvine, they did not put in any sidewalks the first year.

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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.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Visit your friends and ask them to bring you to their dev shop. Ask your friends to visit their dev shop/programmers on their behalf. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues.

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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. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo. We then captured this conversation again on camera. It then permeated my thinking and I began to explore the theme more as I looked around at web properties.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Startup conferences - like last week's DEMO Conference in Santa Clara, California - are great opportunities for young companies to not only gain some exposure, but to network with other like-minded entrepreneurs. Suchet says Zappli has built its app to play nice with others should they approached for partnerships as well.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force. Nirupama is looking to find a niche where she can penetrate the niche social network platform market.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Unfortunately, none are very focused on Florida (California and New York are the top two destination).

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. Originally from California, she now lives in Paris, where her involvement in the vibrant startup scene keeps her from spending too much time in the bakeries. Plyce : Feature-rich location-based social network.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. View more jobs » Bill Addison You've pretty much covered everything.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor. This social network for entrepreneurs can help you answer your questions in a handful of different ways. Thankfully responses aren’t restricted with a character limit.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

First up today was John Boyd with MeetingWave , a social media platform that caters to university alumni associations and addresses the challenge of helping them create walled-garden professional and social networking groups under their own brand, as opposed to groups within Facebook or LinkedIn.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And social networks enabled rapid growth and also the ability to more easily find and play with friends or make new ones. A group of friends at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) got together to form a league and also had several members of our client at the time Southern California Gas Company.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Unfortunately, none are very focused on Florida (California and New York are the top two destination). Carlos PublicWorksAgency.com CitizenRequest.com ChubbyBrain Ben - Nice article and def some very interesting changes occurring in the funding landscape. Carlos - Here is a list of super angels along with what they invest in and where.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

If we zoom even further, we see that the strongest interest in content marketing is found in two major startup markets – the East Coast and California. B2B marketers use numerous social networks to distribute content. ensure that the content is high quality. There are many ways to distribute and promote your content.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Privacy Notice/Your California Privacy Rights. Travel Tips.

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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.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Nevada, Florida, and California have already legalized them, suggesting this may be less of an issue than anticipated. Apocalypse , and The Last Firewall , science fiction novels exploring the role of artificial intelligence and social networks in the near future. If costs come down, are there other barriers? Litigation.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg’s journey started when he created a message program ‘ ZuckNet’ at the age of twelve, CourseMatch and FaceMash in college, and finally the world-famous social networking platform ‘Facebook’ which revolutionized communication, followed by taking over WhatsApp and Instagram. Koum read more about computers in California.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Roman lives and work in Northridge, California. In addition I try to promote my website using SEO and social network sites like Facebook and Twitter. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice. We’re very proud to feature Roman (crowdSPRING username: Romasuave ) today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 31, 2014

billion users, spending 700 billion minutes on the network every month. In the United States, 58% of the population use at least one social network, and that number leaps to 98% for those aged 18 to 24 years old. And yet, I still have organizations or consultants tell me, “my customers aren’t really on social media.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally). USA Angel Investment Network. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

You can compare customers in California, Idaho, and Florida; new and existing customers; or various demographics, etc., IMHO this is a key measure of the quality of your email list, and of the effectiveness and relevance of your message. Segmenting this metric is really powerful. Oh, and don’t forget to segment it like crazy.

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