SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Mahalo offers you the choice of sign-up / registration via a host of social networks (powered by JanRain). At the heart of this is two main advantages of having social network sign-up / registration. Allowing the user to click on the Sign-Up / Register via a social network such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Design 225

Design Social Network Oauth Caching 225

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.

Security 251

Security Technical Review Entrepreneur Social Network 251

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

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. People buy from people. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise. Set up an award, and show winners.

Internet 294

Internet Web Affiliate Advertising 294

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. With the Internet and social networks, things you do in your personal life can affect your success in a big way.

Startup 331

Startup Technical Review Social Network Reputation 331

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Start simple. Download free website tools.

Hosting 248

Hosting Bootstrapping .Net Social Network 248

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Start simple. Download free website tools.

Startup 252

Startup eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping 252

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology.

Startup 263

Startup Affiliate Advertising Technical Review 263

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

JANUARY 14, 2014

The result is we can’t find key names and phone numbers quickly when we really need them, and the data is outdated for the ones we do find. What we all need is a digital tool that can extract data from business cards, as well as sync it with your cell phone, your email, and the social networks you use. Shareware.

Software Review 230

Software Review Social Network Software Email 230

TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Do you have a name, a logo, and have you thought about brand positioning? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? What special data, content, APIs, etc.,

Developer 520

Developer Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 520

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

This is simple in concept, but requires real effort and can be time consuming, and even expensive, if someone gets there before you and tries to sell you the rights to your preferred business or personal domain name. Many professions offer free online directories of members or similar sites for professional networking.

Reputation 248

Reputation Affiliate Technical Review Social Network 248

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. Finally, I HATE the name. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. So if TweetPhoto (bad name, again. uh, hello!

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology.

Entrepreneur 241

Entrepreneur Affiliate Advertising Technical Review 241

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2013

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. With the Internet and social networks, things you do in your personal life can affect your success in a big way.

Entrepreneur 274

Entrepreneur Technical Review Social Network Reputation 274

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 30, 2013

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property. Become a visible expert.

Intellectual Property 281

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Sweat Equity Fractional CTO 281

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Start simple. Download free website tools.

eCommerce 196

eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net 196

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. People buy from people. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise. Set up an award, and show winners.

Affiliate 221

Affiliate Advertising Technical Review Social Network 221

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.

Social Network 239

Social Network Networking Naming California 239

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property. Become a visible expert.

Intellectual Property 260

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity Fractional CTO CTO Hire 260

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Get your Internet domain name and website. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Define some intellectual property.

Intellectual Property 249

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Technical Review Elevator Pitch 249

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property. Become a visible expert.

Intellectual Property 253

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity Fractional CTO CTO Hire 253

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Your mileage may vary. Real-time Communication (internal and external). Hipchat – Intra-company chat with history (+mobile).

Technology 251

Technology EC2 Mobile Startup 251

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2017

Generation Z, much like their parents, Generation X, still doesn’t have an appropriate “name” like Millennials or Baby Boomers. Surprisingly, 42% of Gen Z claims that social media directly influences how they feel about themselves and how they see the world. Going mobile.

Social Media 138

Social Media Social Network Mobile Demand 138

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2024

It consists of a memorable domain name and a distinctive logo with a cohesive color scheme , ensuring your brand stands out and remains recognizable. Choosing a Memorable Domain Name A domain name serves as the digital address for your startup and is often the first interaction a customer has with your brand.

Web 148

Web Caching Social Media HTML 148

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Putting faces to names can make customers feel more at ease about choosing your business for their needs, as well. So invest in some professionally branded and consistent photos from a digital marketing agency to make your public relations, social network branding, and SEO tasks easier.

Kansas City 191

Kansas City Kansas Social Media Flash 191

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

One really great experience was a discussion I had with the camera rolling with my good friend Dmitry Shapiro who founded the major YouTube competitor of its time (Veoh) that was sued into oblivion by Universal and who also founded a social network designed to promote pseudonymity. You call them all sorts of names.

Technical Review 329

Technical Review Reputation Naming Internet 329

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2014

We behind Hibe , a new personal publishing social platform, have compiled the following list of seven tips to help someone make their social networking appearance more attractive to potential employers: 1. Entering your name into a search engine can be an eye-opening experience. Google yourself.

Social Media 189

Social Media Media Social Network Engineer 189

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

Every night you are just hanging out with big name bands and the teams around them that brought them to their peak.&#. It has to do with the future of social networking. Update: Yes, a lot of name dropping in this post. I couldn’t have said it any better replacing music with tech. OK, well maybe 80/20.

Technical Cofounder 294

Technical Cofounder Austin Hosting Cofounder 294

Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

This is simple in concept, but requires real effort and can be time consuming, and even expensive, if someone gets there before you and tries to sell you the rights to your preferred business or personal domain name. See my Forbes article on “ Get A Domain Name Without Bankrupting Your Startup ”. Professional directories.

Reputation 178

Reputation Affiliate Technical Review Social Network 178

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. When you order an Amazon Kindle it comes pre-configured with your user name already configured into the device so that you can click a single button and buy shit. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Obviously it is build on a social network “follow people&# model that is asymmetric like Twitter. You definitely notice the people who are engaged with your content and you can’t help but click on the link of their name to see just who they are. So in a way it has built in game mechanics. Engagement. Game mechanics.

Silicon Valley 301

Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Software Review 301

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

<< we then discussed the need to do trademarks on your company and your key brand names. In the era of social networking if you can’t figure out how to get intro’d to me you probably aren’t cut out to be an entrepreneur. Minutes 11-16 in the video. << Tough, but true.

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

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. Now, the startup and its software solutions are both household names.

Social Media 158

Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Put a QR code on your office name plate to link to your online calendar for availability and contact information. Connect on social media. Add a QR code to your contact information, and you can make it easy for people to automatically connect with you on social networks. Office availability. Mobile class newsletters.

Software Review 262

Software Review Technical Review Mobile Video 262

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Rather, the challenge is this – how can we transform fans and followers on social networks into actual money paying customers? While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect the social web with the corporate wallet.

Technical Review 187

Technical Review Software Review Customer Social Media 187