Following on the heals of last week’s post from Andrea Belz, we have another guest blogger, Bob Aholt. Bob is a Director and long-time member of the Pasadena Angels, has been investing in early stage companies for 5 years, and has been held numerous “C” level positions at private and publicly traded companies. By Bob Aholt. In this case 4.55.  MORE >>

If you’ve joined the rest of us social media sheep you’ve no doubt already tried FourSquare. This fun little location based service allows you to check-in at various places around town. In a hyper-connected world this level of stalkability has proven to be enjoyable for some. I’ll even tell you how you can earn each one. Newbie. MORE >>

During the last year, I’ve spoken to numerous investor relations officers (IROs) on the topic of social media and investor relations.  IROs tend to be the last holdouts within a company’s communication teams to embrace changes in the communications process.  Fear of the SEC due to the possibility of these changes leading to disclosure violations. MORE >>

“If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company. Driving traffic to your website is a formula that can be reverse engineered. Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. MORE >>

Only 1 in about 5,000 attempts at building websites results in a successful business (more on these stats in following posts). At our PubCon keynote I outlined the five primary factors that determine the winners: 1. Focus 2. Uniqueness 3. Monetizability 4. Content 5. Community And the transcendent ingredient: 6. The more precise the better. MORE >>