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CEO of Socialize. Entrepreneur & lifehacker in Silicon Valley. Hopeless travelaholic.
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Socialize recently graduated from Turner's MediaCamp accelerator.
If you want to apply for next year's program, you can do so in early 2013.
Here's a video of some schwag Turner gave MediaCamp participants.
And here's a tour of the MediaCamp office:
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DROdio hasn't filled out their bio yet.
CEO of Socialize. Entrepreneur & lifehacker in Silicon Valley. Hopeless travelaholic.
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Here's a creative way to use Formstack as a mobile form, and send it out as a Microtargeted push notification via Socialize's system, called SmartAlerts:
Here's a transcript of the video:
Daniel: Hey guys we’re here with sean in his kitchen. He’s been working days why he’s weirded out.
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DROdio hasn't filled out their bio yet.
CEO of Socialize. Entrepreneur & lifehacker in Silicon Valley. Hopeless travelaholic.
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Who could ask for a better mom than this?
Daniel: Hey what’s up it’s daniel. I’m here with my mom. Hi mom.
Mom: Hi, and i’m driving.
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DROdio hasn't filled out their bio yet.
CEO of Socialize. Entrepreneur & lifehacker in Silicon Valley. Hopeless travelaholic.
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Here's a transcript of the video:
Daniel: I’m here with mike and mike is the founder of Factor 55. We’re here at the expo. Mike has a couple of really awesome that he made. We’re just telling how to kickstart it. He hasn’t really heard about it. We’re saying he should totally do it. If you watch this video and you think mike should put these products at kickstarter email him at mike@factor55.com. Tell us what you got going on right here.
Mike: What we’ve done is we’ve addressed a shortfall of off road Winching. The traditional winch comes with a winch hub which is designed for a chain and these days nobody uses a chain anymore. They use synthetic recovery straps and so what we ended up doing was you end up taking your traditional cable or synthetic winch rope and you remove the hook and we developed a product where you simply insert this loop up this cable into the back of our product and stall a titanium double shear pin and then you put a snap ring in that retains that. Now you have a safe shackle now on the end of your winch cable or winch rope. There’s an example of one.
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DROdio hasn't filled out their bio yet.
CEO of Socialize. Entrepreneur & lifehacker in Silicon Valley. Hopeless travelaholic.
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I had an employee ask me what the process was to buy stock options, so I figured I'd answer this question publicly so anyone interested could understand & benefit from it.
The way company stock options work is as follows:
As an employee, a company will grant you a pool of options. Let's say you get 10,000 options. Those options typically won't "vest" all at once, meaning that although the company has promised you those options, you receive them on a specific schedule known as a vesting schedule. That schedule is usually something like the following: "4 years, with a 1 year cliff". What that means is that they vest over 4 years (so 25% of the options become available to you each year) on a monthly basis for as long as you're an employee. So if you're an employee for the next 27 months after the option grant, then you'd vest 27/48ths of the total, or 56.25% of your total options (and 10,000 x .5625 = 5,625 options vested). The "cliff" means that in the first year, you don't vest monthly, but rather annually. So in the first year, if you only stay for 11 months, then you don't vest any of the options. But if you stay for 12 months, then boom-- you vest 12/48ths (or 25%) of the options granted. The reason companies do this is so that if an employee doesn't work out in the first year, they don't have an obligation to grant any options. (It would be awkward to hire an employee for 3 months who it turns out isn't a good fit for the company, then have to fire that employee, but still have to vest 3/48ths of his or her options).
OK so you have these vested options. Now what?
Granted options have a "strike price" -- the price at which you can pay to turn them into stock. Let's say that the strike price is 50 cents each. That means that if you stayed at the company for 27 months after the grant, and you vested 5,625 of your options, it would cost you $2,812.50 ($0.50 x 5,625) to purchase your options and turn them into stock.
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Founder of Have 1 On Me
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So a few business partners started a company called Have 1 On Me. We've built a social gifting application that allows friends to send drinks to each other nationwide. Have 1 On Me is putting the "social" back in social gifting by allowing friends to send a 6-pack of beer to say congratulations or a cocktail to say happy birthday.
Here are some videos of the app and our team:
bit.ly/SBIvlF, bit.ly/UIJuT1, bit.ly/TFPLvp
Were looking for some introductions to accelerators in the city and want some opinions on who to approach. Our app is in private Friends & Family Beta and we will be launching in mid-January. We really like KickLabs in SF and Tandem in Burlingame. Any thoughts?
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DROdio hasn't filled out their bio yet.
CEO of Socialize. Entrepreneur & lifehacker in Silicon Valley. Hopeless travelaholic.
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Earlier this year, I attended an Accenture event for Silicon Valley founders discussing social within the enterprise. I just realized I hadn't posted my video of the event.
Here's the transcript: Kelly Demspki, partner at Accenture, talks about social within the Fortune 2000
Speaker 1: To put this a little bit in context, if you think about Accenture and our clients, most of you probably know, we’re a global company. We have clients in about 120 countries. We’re about $25.5 billion in revenue. We essentially work in management consulting, which is my area, technology services and outsourcing as well as business process outsourcing. So our clients are essentially the Forbes Global 2000, plus about another thousand very large enterprises and government agencies and organizations. So that’s the context if you think about the kinds of issues we think are relevant to those kinds of organizations.
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DROdio hasn't filled out their bio yet.
CEO of Socialize. Entrepreneur & lifehacker in Silicon Valley. Hopeless travelaholic.
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My buddy Isaac just bought a GX1 -- in fact, he bought two of them. This gave us a great chance to compare lenses: The non-zoom, 20mm 1.7f lens (about $350 on Amazon) with the power zoom, 14-42mm 3.5f lens (about $325 on Amazon). There's also a very interesting third lens to consider, which we didn't specifically test: The non-zoom, 14mm 2.5f lens ($286 on Amazon).
Here's what Isaac had to say about the 20mm lens:
Here are some relevant blog posts to read about the 20mm lens, as well as a newer 14mm lens:
Daniel, I know you bring a lot of sales experience to the table. There's a lot of information on best sales practices, but I feel like they rarely talk about the psychology about why the best practices are best practices. I've come up with a few questions, it'd be great if you can go through them individually. Thanks!
My name is Mercedes and I am from Argentina. I haven been struggling with launching my app since is for spanish speaking users from all over the world. I was wondering if you have ideas of how to find a co-founder who speaks spanish and how to raise money while you still have a job. Thank you so much and I really admire your work!
