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. Most of them suffer from lack of activity, but it's worth a shot.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California. One of the hotter companies lately in the mobile social networking is FourSquare, which raised $1.35 What gives? Am I a hypocrite?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 2, 2020

late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. I found myself in the middle of such a slow-rolling change twice in my career. First, in the. Source: Wikipedia Common license. By 1975, there were only two. Today the speed of obsolescence is even faster.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. More than 90% of Japanese mobile subscribers are on 3G networks (vs. Sales of avatars in social games nearly 50% of total revenue eclipsing revenue from affiliate transaction, ads or paid games (slide 97).

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

He is well known in the Southern California Technology scene for his work producing the Digital Family event series, along with the MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) series. I've recently co-founded the first political social network FreedomSpeaks and CitySourced.com a real time mobile civic engagement tool.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

As a result of the continued growth in the mobile space, MassMedia, a full-service advertising, public relations and marketing agency with offices in Las Vegas and Southern California, now integrates mobile advertising into all of its clients’ digital campaigns. billion to $19.3

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2007

On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. And there are tons of ways to use social networks. Ben responded with: I’d argue that it’s all a perception, rather than a reality.

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Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

First, in the late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. I found myself in the middle of such a slow-rolling change twice in my career. By 1975, there were only two.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The firm used to be called Fotouhi Alonso and were one of LA's top mid-sized agencies for 20 years, working with clients like Honda, Epson, the LA DWP, and the FX Network. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. Same goes for online business networking. Kudos, I'm in!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Last weekend, I ventured out to southern California for a weekend trip. One friend said that she was still figuring out the whole social media thing. An online social network where you can add people as “friends” (must be mutually accepted by friend) and post information for others to see.

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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. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. in Computer Science.

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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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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JANUARY 15, 2010

I want to say first that I went to school down in southern California and I still love it down there however for my industry, technology, I love it up here. If you are a techie and live in the Silicon Valley area, you are doing yourself a disservice if you are not getting out and networking with your peers. Just kidding.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Nick Smoot just leased offices in Venice for his social-networking app for businesses, Here On Biz, based on all the activity in the area. "I Weve reached out to the schools."

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. 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. in Computer Science.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. Fred Wilson likes, “large networks of socially connected people” while Foundry lists its 5 key themes on its website. Do your homework.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

Scott: They built a social network before Mark Zuckerberg was even born. We’ve got a polarized political world online where the social networks, Facebook and the others optimize for polarization because they want to put you into a tribe. And he’s a dentist in Southern California. Scott: Right.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. The internet business is a game of scale (network externalities). The chicken has come home to roost.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I believe that it was erroneous not to answer the two questions above, it was erroneous to be tempted by the Big Numbers and not understand how Social Media channels actually worked (streams, home pages, personalization, rankings and more). if your business should be on that network and 2. So, let's fix that error. They should.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. Find avenues to network with these folks. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Weve done one so far, and its great.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

Antonio D’Amasio, professor of neuroscience at the University of Southern California, asserts that emotion is an integral element of the decision-making process: …emotion is a necessary ingredient to almost all decisions. Create a social group to which consumers will want to belong.

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