Emily May – Co-founder of Hollaback
[quote style=”boxed”]First, I visualize what the world will look like with this new idea, and how it will create the change I’m looking for. Then, I work my buns off.[/quote]…
Social media changed everything. The founders in this section were there for it. They’ve built agencies, tools, platforms, and strategies that help people and brands navigate a world where everyone has a megaphone and attention is the most valuable currency.
These interviews cover the full social media landscape. Content creation. Community management. Paid social. Analytics. Influencer marketing. The algorithms that decide what you see and the people trying to work with (or around) them. It’s a moving target, and the founders here have been tracking it for years.
What’s refreshing about these conversations is the lack of hype. Social media is full of people promising overnight success. The founders featured here are more interested in what actually works over time. They talk about building real audiences, creating content that matters, and the difference between vanity metrics and the ones that pay the bills.
You’ll find insights on platform strategy, content calendars, social commerce, and the challenge of staying authentic when the algorithm rewards the opposite. Whether you’re managing social media for a brand, building a social media company, or just trying to understand why your posts get twelve likes and your neighbor’s cat gets twelve thousand, there’s something useful here.
[quote style=”boxed”]First, I visualize what the world will look like with this new idea, and how it will create the change I’m looking for. Then, I work my buns off.[/quote]…
Here is the next video from our IdeaMensch Los Angeles event. Brittany Laughlin, the Co-founder of social media travel site gtrot talks about how she chased her passion to turn what…
Meet Talk: Brittany Laughlin – Turning What You Love Into What You Do
[quote style=”boxed”]In Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell discusses his thesis that ideas, products, messages and behaviors “spread just like viruses do.” He follows the growth of “word-of-mouth epidemics” triggered with the help…
[quote style=”boxed”]Wake up, breakfast, email session, start tackling MITs, lunch with the team, MITs, dinner, MITs, write out tomorrow’s MITs before bed, read: instapaper, twitter, maybe a little netflix, bed.[/quote]…
Brian Norgard is founder of Namesake—a conversation community. He is also an active angel investor, advisor and adventurer. Prior to founding Namesake Brian founded Ad.ly (largest micro endorsement network) and Newroo…
Liz Carlson is the Founder of In The Door, a social job search site that lets people find job openings at their friends’ companies. In The Door plugs into Facebook…
Clark Landry is an entrepreneur and investor with several successful exits and 10+ years of experience at online advertising and consumer internet ventures. He is currently the founder and executive…
Richard Anson co-founded Reevoo, a leading crowd commerce aggregator. His vision is to build a global trusted brand that harnesses the power of customer opinion to help consumers make the…
Niel Robertson is a serial entrepreneur and former VC who most recently founded Trada, a crowdsourced paid-search marketplace, and Crowdsortium, a trade organization for crowdsourcing professionals. Prior to Trada he…
Brittany Laughlin is the co-founder of gtrot, a social travel company working to make travel planning easier. The company improves travel serach by connecting users with friends who have been…
Andrew Dumont is a technology entrepreneur and the Director of Business Development at Seesmic. Since the beginning of Andrew’s time with Seesmic in February of 2010, he’s led efforts on…
Meet Andrew Dumont – Director of Business Development at Seesmic
After working at Citysearch for nearly 4 years Kerry Finsand caught the start-up bug and left to try something new. Over a 3 year span he worked as a marketing…