awesomize.me Poised To Make Social Media To Finally Work for B2B

With the rapid growth of social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and now Google+, businesses around the world have incorporated the use of such platforms as part of their marketing and branding strategy. While there is no dispute that these platforms offer exposure to a broad population, it has been a struggle for these platforms to demonstrate a compelling ROI to the business community. The  GM decision to pull out their Ads from Facebook that was reported by Wall Street Journal  is  just one of the recent example.

According to the latest survey by Hubspot, only LinkedIn has demonstrated the ability to convert traffic to leads for the B2B community that is on par with “traditional” marketing avenues by demonstrating a 2.6% conversion rate. Obviously, given the size of the population on these sites, the ability to effectively convert the visitors to actual leads could be a powerful business tool! Read more of this post

First Crowdfunding Conference on May 14th in Awesome Washington DC

The Crowdfunding bill that was signed by President Obama last month will have its first conference next week in Awesome DC!

If you are still not sure what the bill is all about and what it means to your business, the bill classifies startups as “emerging growth companies” that can turn to online investors to raise startup capital. Those companies would also be able to sell up to $50 million in shares before having to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission and have up to 1,000 shareholders which is double the current limitation. Read more of this post

Ganje Gharoon Nemikham: The Persian Musical Comedy Coming to Washington, DC on May 19th

If you are a Washingtonian Persian, “Ganje Gharoon Nemikham” is a fantastic musical comedy for you to see.  The show directed by Farzan Deljou starring Anthony Shams  aka Eslam the Comic,  the Farglish (Farsi + English) standup comedian and actor who used to be a Washingtonian himself till the late 80′s when he moved to Hollywood to pursue his dream.

The show is full of laugh from the beginning to the end! I saw it last month in LA. It’s in Farsi.  So, you have 19 days to learn the language :) Read more of this post

One year after cancer ambushed me…Come with me if you want to live!

Hard to believe it was a few hours after this memorable video with my little monkey a year ago today when I was ambushed by cancer that took me near the death experience.  And, a few short days later, the doc just poured it on me…”Elias, the chance that the  chemo works is 50/50″. In deed, time flies fast.

Thanks to the secret organized crime industries: the pharmaceutical, the booze, the tobacco, and the fast food industries  aka “Mafia”,  as well as the advertising industry promoting these killers  since 1970′s, cancer cells have become so smart these days – smart enough that they can hit you with no warning sign. Read more of this post

Thank You President Obama! Thank You!

The most well made with ZERO hype video in Politics ever made! Because of him, another American entrepreneur, that would be me :) ,  is alive today and covered with his pre-existing condition, working hard to start a new company and to create jobs. So, thank you Mr. President for your work!  FANTASTICO!

As I have worked hard to get the world to awesomize you, I’ll do my best to get America to awesomize you in Nov 2012. Considering the candidates you will be up against, It doesn’t look like you’ll be needing my help anyway :)  So please, don’t waste a dime on presidential campaign! Invest that on Startups in the Nation starting with mine, awesomize.me  only a few blocks from your house :)

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That is NOT Awesome! George Clooney Arrested in Washington, DC!

George Clooney was arrested in DC today in a protest against the ethnic cleansing in the Sudan. Clooney has been on a mission to bring humanitarian aid and support to the people suffering at the hands of the Sudanese government.

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Do You Think Your Business Idea Is A Head of It’s Time?


A few month after Yurie systems, my first startup employer was sold to Lucent for a cool $1.23 B, as employee number 8th, I cashed out my stock options and lunched telezoo.com back in 1999.  telezoo.com was the first B2B social networking site on the web years before myspace and Facebook of the world. I remember I ended up hiring  at least ten sales guy and wasted  a third of our series A funding, a cool $1 m on advertising to get the attention of the companies.  We rarely managed to get 300 companies to utilize the site.

Getting the companies to leverage the power of social networking to market their solution offerings and get engaged with their existing and potential clients online was something totally unheard of and premature.  Many of them even thought I was on dope :) We had a good run with it till 2004 though. Read more of this post

Another Reason Why Washington DC is Awesome!


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Nowruz 1391: The Hottest Persian New Year Parties in Awesome Washington DC

Join us in celebration of the Persian New Year next week. The new year will be 1391. There will be two parties in DC:

The First one:
FRIDAY MARCH 16th
Ozio Lounge
1814 M St NW
Awesome Washington, DC
On all 4 floors!

I guess Ozio will be blocked by long line of black Mercedes Benz and BMW next Friday :) Read more of this post

The Most Awesome People, Company, Product, Service, and Question Categories in Feb of 2012

Here are the most popular and awesome peoplecompany, productservice, and question categories searched and viewed on awesomize.me in the month of Feb 2012. You may click on each link to see the top people, companies, products, services, and questions awesomzied by the community for each category.

Top 5 Awesome Question Categories:

1. Philosophical
2. Social Media 
3. Advertising     
4. Health & Medicine
5. Politics – North America

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