Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking for the Social Media Breakfast San Diego group on how our company, TakeLessons is using social media in the digital world to effectively build trust and engage with music lovers on a hyper-localized level. Thanks to Adam and Erin of Digital Operative (a wonderful San Diego social …
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Image via Wikipedia I read an interesting post from Mark Cuban today on the problems of startup success using a free model. Back in the 90's when I was cutting my teeth around web/tech, the mantra we heard from VC's was "get big fast", and "eyeballs are everything", and "don't worry about making money, we'll …
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TakeLessons has teamed up with Costco to get America moving with music! Costco Members can now buy TakeLessons music lessons gift certificates at Costco.com. "We're excited to help Costco's 50 million members get started enjoying learning how to sing or play music. In today's undertain times, it's beneficial for consumers to find the most relevant …
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“Steven Cox stopped by to tell us all about his San Diego based startup, TakeLessons.com which, as the name simply implies, is an online marketplace for finding music & voice instructors in over 400 cities in the US. Steven and his team are working extremely hard and have provided a service that simply didn’t exist …
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This is a presentation from Jay Baydala, who started Christmas Future, an organization dedicated to raising awareness and helping North Americans learn to spend some of their allotted Christmas money towards solving real world problems. Support them at http://christmasfuture.org. Vote for this presentation at SlideShare. If ChristmasFuture wins, they will donate all $5,000 to helping …
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Recently, I've discovered the blog of Robert Ochtel. He's an author and a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years experience. He's also raised over $50 million for his businesses, and started VentureBlue, a national Angel network. And, he's just up the road in Carlsbad, CA. Robert wrote a post explaining why entrepreneurs should be comforatble …
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Here's a fun post to start off your shortened work week on the right foot. It was written by our good friends Mel and Michelle of Artistic Hub. They do design contests for corporations. Here's a pic of their 'corporate office'. It reminds me how fun it is to do a startup, struggle with people …
Steven’s note: The original post is from a great site called Zen Habits and is edited by Leo Babauta. This is a guest post from Greg Go, co-author of Wise Bread’s new book, 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget. If you’re tired all the time, a change in what you eat (diet) …
Image via CrunchBase There's an interesting article and comment thread going on over at the New York Times on whether web entrepreneurs need VC's like they did ten years ago. I see both sides of the argument. It's true that costs to build have plummeted, and a couple guys can knock out an iPhone app …
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The Union Tribune ran a story on young web start-ups in San Diego and what they are doing to make the most out of the recession. TakeLessons was a featured company. "The company started working out of Cox's house. It now has offices, but not the $700 Aeron chairs that typified the excesses of the …
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