(Founder of stories) Buddy MEDIA Mike Lazerow: we doubled every six months "

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Mike lasers is a serial entrepreneur, who is the CEO of buddy media and previously founded GOLF.com, which was bought by Time Warner and wire University and is currently owned by CBS.

With several successful startups under his belt, we have decided to produce lasers in the Studio for an episode of the history of the site's founder Chris Dickson. At bat, the two discussed the lasers in the latest enterprise, buddy media, which just raised $ 54 million. Buddy Media helps brands cohesively manage their presence on social media and marketing campaigns on sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Once users are connected to social media sites "is all about giving them relevant content, and that is what makes our platform" explains lasers, which describes how Starwood hotels and resorts uses the service. Each brand, he says, now expected on Facebook page to connect with consumers, but once they connect then they become Publishers pushing of sorts, they hope, relevant content to these consumers.

Continuing the conversation in the video below, lasers, talks about the strategy behind the building of the company and offers some of the figures. He tells Dixon, "everything starts with the product. All you have done, if you're not the best product on the side of the business does not work, there's a reason we have 9 of the top 10 global marketing, using our platform.

Notes, however, lasers, having a great product is only part of the equation. You need to build a great business. He credits his wife and one of the founders of scaling the business.

He said "it's not only a great product, how you sell and how do you maintain and thus we have that sooner and what happened is of our early success with customers or distribution ... and we became the player to go to. "

The strategy paid off. Lasers pointed out that buddy MEDIA led to total $ 90 million, of which $ 70 million is still in the Bank. The company creates "millions of dollars in monthly revenues doubled every 6 months, and the company had risen from 40 to 200 employees one year ago today. He went on to tell Dixon "once you find a business model that the time has come to scale". Over 20 months to reach the first million dollars monthly recurring revenue, the second million dollars is only 5 months, and now business adds another million dollars monthly recurring income every 3 months.

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doubleTwist now has 1 million active users — every day

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doubleTwist, slick Media Player for Android is growing. A lot.

In February, we reported that the application has passed an important milestone, drawing one million users per month between mobile and desktop applications.

Today, the company uses much more: they get 1 million users per day between doubleTwist on Android phones and tablets.

Now, it is clear that this does not mean the user base increased by a factor 30 (some people are going to use several times a month). But it is a sign that the company receives significant traction, and that its users keep coming back for more. This is especially important for mobile, where users are notorious for being fickle and giving up on the application in a day or two.

doubleTwist President Monique Farantzos said that the increase stemmed from increased brand, the company received the start of construction for Android. The first version of their Android app was released in June 2010, and since they introduced numerous updates as excellent AirSync, which allows wireless sync photos, music and movies between Android device and the computer without the need for wires (you don't even have to sync it automatically initiates when you connect to a wireless network). Farantzos said that companies, in partnership with T-Mobile also provided an early boost.

Some other key stats: 84% of the users application from English speaking countries, and today the company is rolling out internationalized versions with support for Chinese, Korean, German, French and other languages to help boost international growth.

And it also has some great news to share: while doubleTwist has focused exclusively on Android for awhile, he's going to start expanding to other platforms. Intel said it has licensed its wireless synchronization technology for AirSync MeeGo platform, and it sounds like the application can come to Windows phone and possibly Web OS down the line (it is not confirmed, but pointed out that Android alternatives can see increased traction after the transaction, Motorola/Google).

doubleTwist's mission is to organize and feed content to any device.

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Time to rethink every website in the world

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I tried out the Kindle reader cloud and Holy crap, I feel like the mosaic simply was invented and now we haveTags. (Some of our readers even know that the mosaic is these days? Well at that time it was really cool. Revolutionary even).

Or rather that someone finally figured out how to use the image tag. HTML 5 has been out for some time, but everything else seems to be asleep at the wheel.

Earlier this week, mg Siegler wrote a post on Amazon in a new reader, but he did not specify what an amazing technical progress it is for us all. For me, it's unlikely the issues that it looks great on my iPad. The coolest part is that it works nicely offline.

Gmail and several other websites have creaky offline, but they are not nearly as cool as what did Amazon. (For example, Gmail doesn't even have the offline Outbox.) What is Amazon is a sneak peek at the future of the Internet and this will change everything.

Try it yourself: start reading books on cloud Reader after clicking on a popup window (see below). Now go offline, restart Safari, go to https://read.amazon.com and of course, without any connection at all, you can get your books from exactly where you left off. Every other website in the world, even Gmail, throws up an ugly error if you attempt to do so.

Just imagine a world without ever see on the page "no regard" for favorite site ever again. I believe that the unemployment rate for programmers is going to go even lower.

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Keen on ... Howard Hartenbaum: "in a few years, every business will be Mobile"

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So said Howard Hartenbaum, partner at August capital, when he sat down with me last week at our first CrunchUp Mobile event in Palo Alto. For Hartenbaum, who admitted to "tired" be smashed "social" beginners mobile inevitable future digital business – so it was inevitable really that he thinks that the word eventually disappear, because he will become so everywhere.

Hartenbaum clearly optimistic Monetizing mobile. He believes that mobile will revolutionize traditional desktop advertising industry by replacing the banner advertising with a much more intimate and targeted advertising. He is also bullish on mobile entertainment provider and as a driving force for development of trade. The most gratifying Hartenbaum believes that mobile leads to consumers pay for their content, what writers, musicians and filmmakers, again the opportunity to monetize their work.

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Howard Hartenbaum joined August capital in 2008. Prior to joining, he served as general partner of Draper Richards LP where he was the founding investor in Skype and. ..

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