1. Articles mentioning both San Francisco and Facebook

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    1. Beyond Money, What Do Young Startup Founders Want?

      Explore Blog (Feb 6 2012) Funding

      ...sers. The platform germinated through LaunchBox Digital in Washington, D.C. and was angel-backed in San Francisco, CA with total funding of $2 million. Read about his experience at LaunchBox Digital at his blog, T......oadmap. Naturally, entrepreneurs think big, and we want it all right now. We want to build the next Facebook. But sometimes our enthusiasm makes us forget that even Facebook started out small and very focused ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   Washington   Los Angeles

    2. Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs

      Explore mixergy.com (Dec 19 2011)

      Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs ...lking for so long… Ilya: I can’t unfortunately. I live in the Mission which is the sunniest part of San Francisco. If I turn them that way? Is that good? Andrew: Let’s see. Ilya: Am I just going to be bathed in li......et’s provide something of value. So I would create these things, for example, we were talking about Facebook apps earlier. I had this script ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   Farmville   Pacific

    3. How to save money running a startup

      Explore Calacanis.com (Dec 12 2011)

      ...hey are going to lose the business. 16. Don’t waste money on recruiters. Get inside of linkedin and Facebook and start looking for people–it works better anyway. 17. Really think about if you need that $15,00...... remember them } 18. Outsource to middle America: There are tons of brilliant people living between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York who don’t live in a $4,000 one ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   America   San Francisco   New York

    4. Startup Marketing: Tactical Tips From The Trenches

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Dec 7 2011)

      Startup Marketing: Tactical Tips From The Trenches I’m speaking at the Inbound Marketing Summit later this month in San Francisco.  There are some really great speakers lined up (David Meerman Scott, Chris Brogan, Charlene Li, Pa......e got design skills yourself, or know somebody really good that can do it, even better. 7.  Setup a Facebook business page (known as a “fan” page) for your startup.  You’re not going to get many fans in... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   India   Ireland

    5. How To Win Customers By Doing Good Things For Them

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 28 2011)

      How To Win Customers By Doing Good Things For Them ...appened? Jonathan: So I’ll give you one, specific example. So, people were really getting upset via Facebook and, I’ll venture to say some people were just, kind of, exaggerating for a reaction, claiming that......, because on my second month on the job, he sent me to launch one of our products at TechCrunch, in San Francisco. I couldn’t believe that he gave me the opportunity, with two ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Boston   San Francisco   Washington

    6. How To Beat A Well-Funded Competitor

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 7 2011)

      How To Beat A Well-Funded Competitor ...ng to be the biggest and baddest starting the next Yahoo at the time, or today it would probably be Facebook or Zynga. At the time, being the next Yahoo was sort of an impossible dream, so let’s be a little b......print, definitely helped us because I think that if I was caught up in the startup world, either in San Francisco or New York, I probably would ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Australia   San Francisco

    7. How Assistly Used Lean Startup Ideas To Cash Out For $50 Million

      Explore mixergy.com (Sep 21 2011)

      How Assistly Used Lean Startup Ideas To Cash Out For $50 Million ...ex: That’s right. It’s been a long time. Now it’s interesting, I’m still part time in San Diego and San Francisco, splitting time, as you know. And I do a mentorship with a lot of entrepreneurs in San Diego, and I...... which is pretty unbelievable scale, especially when you didn’t have things like Twitter really and Facebook and TechCrunch and all these other great avenues ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Fred Wilson   San Francisco   Macromedia

    8. How To Lose 1% Of Your Customers With Just 1 Email

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Mar 28 2011)

      ...mo.com, a site with exclusive deals for web entrepreneurs. He previously was an early employee at Facebook and Mint.com.    On the morning of March 2nd we sent out an email to 40,000 people and subsequentl...... to make you a better entrepreneur (3 weeks ago) 8 Tips For Building An Internet Company Outside of San Francisco (3 weeks ago) 9 Ways To Disrupt And "Hipmunk" An Industry (4 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   Sequoia Capital   Facebook

    9. The 5 Minute Guide To Cheap Startup Advertising

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Mar 18 2011)

      ...u insight into how certain traffic converts for you. With properly tracked conversions and an ad on Facebook, you can determine that men from 35-45 convert at a rate 15% lower than women of the same age. This......s to make you a better entrepreneur (1 week ago) 8 Tips For Building An Internet Company Outside of San Francisco (2 weeks ago) 9 Ways To Disrupt And "Hipmunk" An Industry ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   Sequoia Capital   Google

    10. SlideDeck Founder How To Ensure Profits Before You Launch – with Chuck Longanecker

      Explore mixergy.com (Nov 10 2010) Marketing

      SlideDeck Founder How To Ensure Profits Before You Launch – with Chuck Longanecker ... have things like MySpace. At that point in time, it was the primary marketing device. Now you have Facebook. And at that point, you didn’t have one primary set of people. You had some people on MySpace, you ......s. Chuck: So, I’m in San Diego. I live in San Diego. I’m now spending half my time in San Diego and San Francisco. But I’ve this kind ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of Texas   Jason Fried   San Francisco

    11. Flowtown: How It Failed Then Succeeded At Creating A Product Customers Love – with Dan Martell

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 25 2010) Marketing

      Flowtown: How It Failed Then Succeeded At Creating A Product Customers Love – with Dan Martell ...environment that’s been so good to me. And he said, “The best thing you could ever do is to move to San Francisco.” As soon as he gave me that permission, I was done. I packed the bags and showed up here with a su...... it, here’s what happens. You’ll have a public profile on Twitter that has more data than you do on Facebook, and maybe ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Sean Ellis   Eric Reis   San Francisco

    12. Lead Generation, The Underappreciated Revenue Channel – with Jay Weintraub

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 15 2010)

      Lead Generation, The Underappreciated Revenue Channel – with Jay Weintraub ...mples of light startups doing that. The second is saying there’s a lot of paid traffic. Google, now Facebook, there’s a ton of self-service platforms. Gee, if I can generate a lead for somebody that might be ......t’s . . . well, one of my favorite examples is, just because they’re great guys, a small company in San Francisco called Ampush Media. Andrew: Okay. Jay: It’s young guys ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Las Vegas   San Francisco   India

    13. 5 Things Hollywood's Power Players Can Teach Entrepreneurs

      Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 6 2010)

      5 Things Hollywood's Power Players Can Teach Entrepreneurs ...m industry in NY/LA. This week's release of The Social Network, an interpretation of the rise of Facebook, and it's founder Mark Zuckerberg, is another corridor between these two worlds. It'd be easy to br...... is creative entrepreneur and part of the team at Cloudkick, a Y-Combinator funded company based in San Francisco. Previously he worked in the offices of Scott Rudin in New York and ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   Hollywood   New York

    14. The bowling pin strategy

      Explore cdixon.org (Aug 21 2010)

      ...ome and then find ways to hop from that niche to other niches and eventually to the broader market. Facebook executed the bowling pin strategy brilliantly by starting at Harvard and then spreading out to othe...... Yelp also used a bowling pin strategy by focusing first on getting critical mass in one location – San Francisco – and then expanding out from there.  They also focused on activities that (at the time ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   Harvard   Geoffrey Moore

    15. How Did The Founder Of Grockit Raise $17+ Mil To Revolutionize Education? – with Farbood Nivi

      Explore mixergy.com (Aug 12 2010)

      How Did The Founder Of Grockit Raise $17+ Mil To Revolutionize Education? – with Farbood Nivi ...s of studying. I was a teacher at those companies for a while and I’ve seen what was happening with Facebook and Myspace and being like, “I have this social learning model in my classroom. There’s all this so......, trying to work to keep Grockit running while trying to raise money, flying back and forth between San Francisco and LA. You still have to do it. I’ve ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Reid Hoffman   University of Michigan   Boston

    16. The Relentless Visionary Behind Match.com, Sex.com, Clean Power Finance And More – with Gary Kremen

      Explore mixergy.com (Aug 6 2010)

      The Relentless Visionary Behind Match.com, Sex.com, Clean Power Finance And More – with Gary Kremen ...how you were going to transition people from dating to the rest of the system because it seems like Facebook and other companies have gotten people in with dating and then built robust businesses on top of it......h I never do because I still believe in living close to the ground. No different than the places in San Francisco that I lived in. It might buy a little comfort ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   America   Larry Ellison   San Francisco

    17. Fraternity of the Wired Works in the Wee Hours

      Explore The New York Times (Jul 26 2010)

      Fraternity of the Wired Works in the Wee Hours ...is catching on. Others have organized similar weekly gatherings in nearly a dozen cities, including San Francisco, Boston, Stockholm and Melbourne, Australia. In New York, roughly two dozen people armed with lapto...... that clutter the daytime. Even the Web goes quiet. People feel less compelled to check Twitter and Facebook and chat with friends and colleagues via instant message. “When you don’t have your co-workers cons... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Boston   Australia   San Francisco

    18. How A First-Time Entrepreneur Launched Going.com And Sold It To Aol — with Roy Rodenstein

      Explore mixergy.com (Jul 13 2010)

      How A First-Time Entrepreneur Launched Going.com And Sold It To Aol — with Roy Rodenstein ...tion at the time? Roy: So, at that time, smart phones didn’t exist. Twitter basically didn’t exist. Facebook was just opening up outside of college, so it was a very, very different time. Upcoming.org, at the......en we did our launch event here in Boston, and eventually we did also launch events in New York and San Francisco as well. And what we did was we basically ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Boston   IBM   San Francisco

    19. Outflanked, Not Outspent: The Real Story of Recruiting for Tech vs Wall St in NYC

      Explore - This is going to be BIG! (Jun 17 2010)

      ...mething fundamentally different about the nature of the talent there.  It’s also not simply because Facebook can outbid for someone who would otherwise work at the San Francisco office of a management consulting firm.  It’s just seen as what everyone else is doing and they hav... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   AOL   Manhattan

    20. The Contagious Energy Of The Man Who Invested In Evite, Stubhub & Other Pioneers – with Jon Staenberg

      Explore mixergy.com (Jun 15 2010)

      The Contagious Energy Of The Man Who Invested In Evite, Stubhub & Other Pioneers – with Jon Staenberg ...went there on a whim, not really knowing what I was going to do but using the power of linkedIn and Facebook, ended up meeting some incredible people. One of the things I did, was just through my Stanford alu......r the valley to partners with, and so I basically came out and said “am they bridge from Seattle to San Francisco”, am going to be that guy that kind ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Nebraska   Newsweek   San Francisco

    21. The Man Who Survived eTour, Grew Ask.com And Launched Clicker – with Jim Lanzone

      Explore mixergy.com (Jun 11 2010)

      The Man Who Survived eTour, Grew Ask.com And Launched Clicker – with Jim Lanzone ...rs there hooked me up with a bunch of internet start ups, this is ‘96 and one was hot wired here in San Francisco which created the first ad, one was jam TV, which was the first, it became emusic and then the thir......en when I got there which was the biggest brand in the world. At the time you would have never, now Facebook and Twitter have taken ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Philadelphia   San Francisco   Nike

    22. How A First-Time Entrepreneur Sold His Company For $17+ Mil Then Launched IngBoo – with Rikard Kjellberg

      Explore mixergy.com (Jun 10 2010)

      How A First-Time Entrepreneur Sold His Company For $17+ Mil Then Launched IngBoo – with Rikard Kjellberg ...t. And then we made this available now in popular destinations. I mean you can consume this list in Facebook, you can consume on mobile devices, you can consume it on a portal and by Twitter as well. So its r......s. So, we are partnering with publishers. For example, our biggest partner is Technorati.com out of San Francisco. They use our service to provide a connective search function ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   Apple   Sun Microsystems

    23. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas

      Explore Tony Wright’s Startup Front (May 27 2010)

      Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas ... a customer (other than word of mouth, SEM/SEO, and PR). I love extremes here. Zynga, Twitter, and Facebook has nailed one extreme– their cost of acquisition is free and nearly infinitely scalable. If you......sking about total addressable market (TAM). Craigslist started as a classified ads mailing list for San Francisco. Amazon started selling books. Have some imagination and consider what your company could morph int... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Fred Wilson   San Francisco

    24. Reach Customers in 140 Characters, All of Them Free

      Explore The New York Times (May 27 2010)

      Reach Customers in 140 Characters, All of Them Free ...et into a $250,000 sale,” he said. DO NOT BE BORING Humphry Slocombe is a 14-seat ice cream shop in San Francisco that has gathered nearly 300,000 Twitter followers — far more than giant competitors like Ben & Jer......wledgeable about baking,” Ms. Wilson said. “My universe is already there — my Twitter followers and Facebook fans.” When Ms. Wilson wanted to try a new maple bacon bundt, she posted about ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   Paris   Los Angeles

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