Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.

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Security Technical Review Entrepreneur Social Network 251

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2012

Use social networking to start the wave. Costs are low these days to set up a credible website, do some search engine optimization, start blogging, and start mining the social networks for interest. Big bang product launches are the domain of big enterprises, and you can never match their clout and budget.

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Agile Entrepreneur Social Network Software Development 230

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.

Technical Review 235

Technical Review Startup Social Network Software Review 235

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. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.

Technical Review 214

Technical Review Startup Social Network Software Review 214

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2010

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.

Technical Review 212

Technical Review Entrepreneur Internet Social Network 212

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2019

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.

Security 195

Security Technical Review Social Network Software Review 195

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year.

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Cost Startup Hosting Bootstrapping 220

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. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. Leverages persistent cookie to follow a user and display recurring display advertising that matches a previous transaction intent or behavior. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009.

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year.

eCommerce 196

eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net 196

Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Use social networking to start the wave. Costs are low these days to set up a credible website, do some search engine optimization, start blogging, and start mining the social networks for interest. Big bang product launches are the domain of big enterprises, and you can never match their clout and budget.

Agile 163

Agile Startup Lean Social Network 163

The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Zappos has found great success by keeping social media responsibilities horizontal and flexible. Zappos assumes everyone in the company is on social media and trusts them to participate in growing the brand. Prioritize social networks. Startup Example: Cloudera. Strategy Adopted: Blogger Outreach. Startup Example: Coin.

Social Media 158

Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

Perhaps your intern might be given the freedom to design and implement an entire strategy for your company (social networking, for example). His company is dedicated to matching the best young talent to leading companies through internships. In return, the intern benefits immensely from the experiential education.

Startup 241

Startup Technical Review Bandwidth Early Stage 241

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Social networking is indeed the new business networking. Since I’ve been lurking around the various social networks for the last year or so, I’ve learned a few things, so I thought it would be helpful to clue you in on current networking cultures, and how they map into the business networking scene.

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Social Network Networking Entrepreneur Asia 255

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

They want to monetize the Twitter stream via contextual search matching. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. They could take a long term view.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Take a look at your social networks. If you want to launch an influencer campaign, you need to have social media accounts. And before launching any campaigns, you should make sure your social networks are up-to-date and appropriately branded. First of all, which social network are you launching on?

Campaign 147

Campaign Software Review Social Media Social Network 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2017

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.

Technical Review 136

Technical Review Entrepreneur Social Network Software Review 136

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2012

Yongfook, as he is better known in Singapore’s tech entrepreneurship circle (we first wrote about him in 2009 ), is an avid cook and the former director for Japan-based online recipe network Cookpad in charge of its international business. Prior to that, Yongfook founded and sold off his own recipe social network Open Source Food.

Singapore 200

Singapore Aggregator Technical Review Database 200

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Use social networking to start the wave. Costs are low these days to set up a credible website, do some search engine optimization, start blogging, and start mining the social networks for interest. Big bang product launches are the domain of big enterprises, and you can never match their clout and budget.

Agile 120

Agile Startup Social Network Software Development 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2011

You can bet that if the stories don’t match, they will more likely believe the online version. In reality, it doesn’t matter whether you are preparing an online profile for your favorite social network, or a written resume (Curriculum Vitae) in the old-fashioned sense, you need to make certain that it helps your case rather than hurts it.

Social Network 229

Social Network Networking Matching Open Source 229

The Next Web

MAY 4, 2013

This is similar to the critical mass of users that is needed on a social network for users to find value in the network. Matching: Curation of products/service. The efficiency of discovery and matching is critical to a marketplace’s success. At critical mass and beyond, closely track matching efficiency.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Seth is one of those truly descent human beings that you meet occasionally in this industry whose earnestness on camera is matched by his behavior off camera. Before we filmed the segment we had the chance to chat over lunch over the direction of the Internet and how social was changing the fabric of the web.

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Following are some of the latest digital marketing strategies to boost your business: Social media: An audience attraction: This strategy includes interacting and influencing the audience through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok.

Social Media 140

Social Media Technical Review Marketing Social Network 140

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. What’s the ARPU of a business on a social network? Matching Algorithms. Next-Gen Networking. 1 Hacker Way.

Social Media 185

Social Media B2B North America Media 185

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Nor is the knowledge loss limited to technical knowledge: It is not simply losing someone’s knowledge if they retire or leave the organization, it is also losing their social network, if you will, in terms of who they seek out for answers to questions in their domain. Internal social networks. The decision-making process.

Retention 128

Retention Technical Review Social Network Wiki 128

VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Attractive Consumer Opportunities in 2025 and Beyond While there hasn’t been a blockbuster IPO for consumer tech companies (mobile apps, B2C model startups) that matches the scale of Uber, Airbnb, Roblox, DoorDash, or Unity over the past 5 years, it feels like the momentum for consumer tech is rapidly changing.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review B2C Generative AI IPO 78

The Next Web

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Readers register topics they’re interested in and link up their social networking services to improve the quality of the recommendations, and they can teach the system, which uses natural language processing and data mining, over time. The service is currently tied in to Sina Weibo and Google Reader.

China 129

China Malaysia Cloud Startup 129

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2015

Social listening tools like Radian6, Google Alerts, and Trackur may also help you to learn what’s buzzing on social networks. Use social networks to engage with community. Identify keyword groups and content types: Match relevant keywords and topics of interest. b) Content Marketing Strategy.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Social Media SEO Curation 100

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Social networks play an increasingly more important role in the product review process. Many young family members have become equally or even more knowledgeable than their parents about what products are available in the marketplace, because children as young as three and four are using computers, tablets and smart phones.

Customer 154

Customer Retention Social Media Technical Review 154

SoCal CTO

MARCH 30, 2010

People seem to be missing the really big picture of the value of social media and really the Internet for that matter. They look at how current social networking sites work and how online and offline relationships currently work and make the assumption that this represents the value proposition. Product purchases.

Social Media 179

Social Media Matching Media Cofounder 179

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Simply fill out a profile about yourself and your goals, and then search the mentor profiles that match your needs. More than 1,000 matches have been made to date. EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

There have been several unsuccessful attempts to bring the web to TV, but the user experience hasn’t matched the lean-back, simple remote controlled TV watching. The new-generation mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads could bridge the gap between the web and the TV, and make TV watching a truly social experience. Are you ready? *A

Internet 114

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 114

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Web Application such as Web Mail or a gated Social network. Matching algorithms? Each page needs fast response time (both time to first byte and total load time). Pages may not have much dynamic content on the page. There may be lots of pages. Computation Complexity – What do we need to compute? Natural language processing?

Fractional CTO 150

Fractional CTO API Startup SEO 150