(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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(Founder of stories) Kevin o' Connor: "exit strategy is total bullshit"

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Chris Dixon wraps up his interview with FindTheBest (DoubleClick) co-founder, Kevin o' Connor, asking him about his ultimate goal of FindTheBest. About ' Connor responds, "the exit strategy is total bullshit," it just does what he likes to do and notes that if you solved a big problem "you end up with many options."

About ' Connor also shows that people actually use the social web less intensively as novelty disappears and becomes an integral part of them on the Internet.

As the interview concludes in the video below, Dixon requests about ' Connor in the marketing channel for its "decision engine" FindTheBest. They discuss how all attempts to game Google makes it harder to be discovered. About ' Connor tells Dixon, the majority of his early efforts focused on SEO. Recognizing the SEO shortcomings (with people trying to manipulate the system) on the ' Connor notes Google is trying to clean up the SEO with Panda and Panda improve results FindTheBest's, 25% the next day after the start of the Panda.

At about 4: 25 in the video, Dixon notes that the market became flooded with FindtheBest B2C Web sites. Dixon asked about ' Connor if he was concerned "that there is so much noise out there that it makes it harder for you to compete?"

About ' Connor responds, "our competitors are 10 000 niche sites, we literally do everything from summer camps programs fractional aircraft that mercury levels in fish. He further States that their competitive advantage lies in the range of categories that compare and big winner in the space will be "who may recoup their R&D account through large base". He ends by saying: "for us to enter any one of these selected markets actually turns out to be very inexpensive.»

Make sure to watch the episodes I, II and III Dixon interview with Kevin o' Connor. Previous stories founder episodes here.

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(Founder of stories) Kevin o' Connor: "search this again tomorrow we begin business"

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Serial entrepreneur, Kevin o' Connor's latest venture-FindTheBest, a company that offers comparison on everything from credit cards to the golf course. Kevin was the founder of FindTheBest to DoubleClick, which Google ended up buying for $ 3 billion.

In this episode, the founder of the stories about ' Connor takes us back to its days of DoubleClick, where he joined Atlanta's Internet Security Systems in its infancy. He tells host Chris Dixon, 20-year-old college drop-out had to do with his signing with the launch. Speaking of those first days, '' Connor said: "I don't think any of us realized that it would be worth billions of dollars".

Below about ' Connor discusses life after ISS and the way in which he and Dwight Merriman, took the road create a DoubleClick. He said two quit his job, spent six months, brainstorming products and initially excluded from the job site services. How about ' Connor tells Dixon, two "major" in the wrong pitching prospects.

Dusting yourself off, they struck gold when determining dozens of ideas from the ' Connor in the basement. The idea of DoubleClick was crowned the winner and after taking center stage on the ' Connor said: "I went up and I told my wife ... The search ended, tomorrow we start the business.

Be sure to watch both videos for additional considerations, along with past episodes of the founder of the stories that can be found here, especially one with former DoubleClick CEO Kevin Ryan.

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(Founder of stories) Ben Lerer to launch gold rush

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As Chris Dixon wraps up his conversation with Thrillist co-founder and Lehrer enterprises-partners Ben Lerer, Lehrer offers his assessment of today's startup environment. From his point of view it's a mixed bag. (Note: this was written before the recent financial crisis)

"Since we started investing, we have seen a lot more money on the market. so it's harder to be seed stage investor because evaluations will grow. "  However, Lehrer has advantage for us is that there is no more money on series stage and therefore more of our companies get a chance and to continue to live. "

Dixon weighs in on carried out by relay chatter, he heard from some investors. He says, "what worries about the current environment is less than the estimates being so high, but more the fact that time is so short that they must make a decision [investment] in three days." Dixon's opinion? "I think it's a mistake on both sides."

Picking up their conversation in the video below, Dixon asked Lehrer who competition when it comes to investing. Lehrer said that a lot of it comes from people with financial resources, which are new to tech investment game who "throw money at it" and "don't understand ecosystems." He continues, "there are some stupid checks".

Don't forget to watch the whole clip for additional ideas, along with part I, part II and part III of this interview with Lehrer and other recent episodes of the history of the founder of here.

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(Founder of stories) Thrillist Ben Lerer purchase customers and rise against Groupon

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Host Chris Dixon founder stories continues his conversation with Thrillist co-founder and CEO Ben Lerer, discussing clients.

Recognizing the direction of thoughts that he is not optimal for paying clients, Dixon requests for customer acquisition strategy Lehrer's and says: "a lot more tech companies including Groupon and I believe Thrillist built ... A large part of the acquisition of customers, although paid advertising products and do other things to get people to subscribe, right?

Lehrer was responsible, saying: "it's true, we have always been driven and primarily organic growth, but the beautiful thing about some of these new enterprises, Groupon or gilding or any of these new models is that they can be truly data driven so that you understand the value of the lifetime of your users. Continuing, "If you can go and buy a lot of users $ 2 dollar ... and they keep costs $ 10, you can go and build a truly great business very quickly. "

Moving forward, with the theme of Groupon in the video below, Dixon brings up the at-large conversation around "what are the business" and wondered "how a business as a sustainable assets?"

Lehrer noted strength Groupon in local sales and brand recognition, before pointing out that there is a problem. Spin the conversation back to his own company, Lehrer says: "I do not look at the local as something that, if we've done as a separate business that I would be very excited about. The reason I think we are very well suited to have some local Chamber, because we already have customers on the spot ... and we already have a scale in the markets, we go in. "

Look for the latest episodes of history the founder here, including the part I and part II Lehrer interview, as well as interviews with gilding, Kevin Ryan

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