Live Podcast: Dave McClure, Founding Partner 500 Startups and John Ramey, CEO iSocket

Dave McClure

This one is a must-listen for entrepreneurs and those that aspire to be.
Join us for a joint interview with Dave McClure, Founding Partner and CEO of 500 Startups and John Ramey, CEO of iSocket.

John Ramey

Dave McClure is a venture capitalist and founding partner at 500 Startups, an Internet startup seed fund and incubator program headquartered in Mountain View, CA. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor and investor, blogger, and internet marketing nerd.
Dave’s passion is helping startups with product and marketing strategy, and he is a vocal and notable industry speaker on lean startup metrics. He has invested in over 70 startup companies including iSocket.com.
John Ramey, the Founder and CEO of iSocket.com has been a successful Web and marketing entrepreneur for over 10 years. He previously co-founded Maven Ventures and Lythargic Media. With iSocket.com, he is passionate about making advertising suck less.

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Live Podcast: Featured Guest Sam Lawrence, CEO of Blackbox Republic

Sam Lawrence

I have yet to talk to someone who has an answer as to how to separate our personal, professional and even ‘secret’ lives… until now.

Enter Sam Lawrence, CEO of Blackbox Republic, a social networking site that allows you to decide what gets published to ‘public’ social networks that anyone can search, such as Facebook and Twitter, and then what content you want to keep within your ‘private’ persona on Blackbox Republic.

In an age of privacy concerns and risk around what we reveal about ourselves online, it seems this is a business trying to serve a genuine need.

I asked Sam about the inspiration for the business and how it’s played out so far. He gave out a free trial promo code during the show – be sure to check it out! Promo code: RADIOBBR

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Live Podcast: Featured Guest Kristen Smith, Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA)

[Editor’s note: This post and podcast originally produced for Eastwick Communications here…]

As followers of this blog, and Eastwick in general, are well aware, we are all about influence. I remember one of the first business examples told to me in grammar school was the success of McDonalds in their early days, targeting ads at children knowing that they would talk to one another and eventually influence their parents to buy a Happy Meal.

That example seems so basic and possibly even outdated. But is it? With all the technology at our fingertips, has word of mouth shifted (at least partially) online, or do you still need to hear something face-to-face for the ultimate impact?

We decided to ask an expert.

Kristen Smith is the Executive Director of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) and we’re delighted she’s this week’s guest on our podcast, Break through the Noise.

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Live Podcast: Featured Guest Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia Journalism Professor, Dean of Students and Former WNBC-TV Tech Reporter

[Editor’s note: This post and podcast originally produced for Eastwick Communications here…]

Prof. Sreenath Sreenivasan

Those of you who know me know that I don’t scare easily… but today I’m feeling just a tad intimidated.

I could not be more pleased to welcome esteemed professor, dean of students and former WNBC-TV tech reporter Sree Sreenivasan to “Break though the Noise.”

As usual on the program, we discussed influence, the changing state of it and whole lot more.

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Video: Digital Marketing Techniques for Non-Profits

Charlene Li, founder of the Altimeter Group and co-author of Groundswell, outlines what the panel will discuss: social media strategies, best practices, and how a non-profit should start to utilize social media to benefit their organization.