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Awesome Jonathon Perrelli: Fools Are A Necessary Part Of The Economy

February 9, 2012 by Elias Shams Leave a Comment

Here is an awesome inspirational message by Jonathon Perrelli with Fortify.vc to those who are as fool as me, currently struggling to find employment, and have at least 10% entrepreneurial DNA. Given our current economy and unemployment rate, I don’t think I need to remind you that most of the existing successful companies including Google, Microsoft, and GE launched their ventures during the poor economy. So, his message below is SIMPLEMENTE PERFCTO!

Message to Fools:
“If you have a day job, and you love it, shout hooray! If you woke up and realized that you are being pimped by an evil corporation and not being treated fairly, or you are bored out of your mind, or too smart to be locked down, get up and grab your red stapler and walk the F out the door. Fools are a necessary part of the economy and I too have been a fool more than once in my career, so I too “get” that it is quite difficult to leave the day job, etc. So either explore your business as a hobby (but not for too long) or live vicariously through your Founder and Farmer friends. Turn your dream into an innovative product or service. Be bold, but be careful. Know your personal financial situation and speak with others who have made the jump from Fool to Founder, prior to grabbing your stapler” Jonathon Perrelli with Fortify.vc. Read more of this post

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Incentives for Your High Tech Business in Awesome Washington, DC

February 7, 2012 by Elias Shams 2 Comments

How the DC High Tech Incentive Program Can Help You Grow Your Business

Washington, DC has emerged as a hotbed of entrepreneurship and technology in the Mid-Atlantic region and nationally. High technology startups located in DC are eligible for incentives to help them reduce costs and grow. If you are the owner of a high technology startup with at least two employees, or you may soon find yourself growing to this level, then you may be eligible for DC’s High Tech Incentive program. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about this program, then look no further than a panel discussion with representatives from the DC government, area financial professionals, and startups taking advantage of the high tech incentive program. Read more of this post

Filed under Tech Tagged with entrepreneurship, gwu, High Tech Incentive Program, Tech Business, technology, The George Washington University, Washington DC

80 Social Media And Content Marketing Predictions: 12 Scream of awesomize.me Business Model

December 29, 2011 by Elias Shams Leave a Comment

Content marketing institute just released a list of interesting predictions by 80 different social & digital media gurus with the focus on the relationship between brand and content, the evolution of blogging, the future of Google’s influence, content marketing and distribution. Read more of this post

Filed under Apps, Media, Online Media, social media, Tech, Web Tagged with awesome, awesomize.me, b2b, B2C, Blogging, branding, Content, Content Marketing, Content marketing institute, distribution, evolution, Google’s influence, mobile app, Predictions 2012, social marketing, social media, social networking

Branding: Search VS. Social? How About Search AND Social?

December 26, 2011 by Elias Shams Leave a Comment

With the rapid emergence and adoption of social media as a marketing tool, today’s marketers have been spending a significant amount of their time leveraging social media channels with customer interaction, collaboration, and idea generation being the main incentives for them to jump on such the social media bandwagon.

Despite all that, search engines are still the king when it comes to online marketing for the following reasons: Read more of this post

Filed under social media, Tech Tagged with b2b, Bing, branding, business branding, Business-to-Business, facebook, google, LinkedIn, Marketing, search, search engine optimization, search vs social, SEO, social marketing, social search, social vs search, twitter, yahoo, YouTube

DC Technology Business Innovation recommendations – Presentation Transcript

December 9, 2011 by Elias Shams Leave a Comment

The pretty one is me, Jamey is the other one

A few month after Vincent Gray, our new mayor was elected last year, one of the most awesome Washingtonian entrepreneurs, Jamey Harvey, founder of the DC based startup, Sponto and Marullus Williams, President and CEO of Limbic Systems, the DC based IT solution provider led a group of civic minded, entrepreneurial technologists and investors in a conversation about what we could do to make DC more awesome for Startups. The group included Peter Corbett, Jonathan Aberman, Doug Humphrey, Susan Banta, Julie Silard Kantor, Adam Rubinson, Wolf Ruzicka, Dutch Dunham and me, the awesomizer.

The mayor has declared this to be the technology startup month and he’s hosting a group of tech CEO’s soon to continue this conversation face-to-face.

Thanks to Jamey who put this slide together, here is the summary of what we did. Feel free to share it with those in your network. Read more of this post

Filed under About DC, Tech Tagged with Business Innovation, DC, DC mayor, elias shams, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, Jamey Harvey, technology, Technology Business Innovation, Vincent Gray, washington

Tired of Google Adsense? Try WordPress WordAds

November 29, 2011 by Elias Shams 1 Comment

If you have publicly visible blog with a custom domain name on wordpress.com, you can now make money from online advertising on your blog. The service powered by Federated Media called WordAds and you can apply for it here.

Before you get too excited, not every wordpress.com blog will be eligible for the program. The selection will be based on your traffic, your user engagement, the nature of your content, and the language.

Although, I think this is a great move by WordPress, but most of their big blogs are already part of other niche Ad networks. How do they plan to get them, it will be exciting to see their execution. That said, I would say only small mom & pop blogs will apply for now including us. Read more of this post

Filed under Online Media, Web Tagged with Blog, Federated Media, Google Adsense, online advertising, wordads, WordAds AdSense, Wordpress WordAds, wordpress.com

Sponto To Awesomize The Events Around Washington DC

November 4, 2011 by Elias Shams Leave a Comment

Sponto, the Washington DC based mobile party detection app that originally launched for college kids just launched their special edition Android app for DC week. The app allows regional tech community to experience DC week from anywhere in real time.

You and other participants will be able to form ad-hoc, spontaneous events simply by coming together with your phones in and around DC week events. Once detected, event participants can add their Facebook friends and post photos and descriptions to create a rich, real-time feed of everything that’s happening during DC week. Read more of this post

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Thank you Steve for all of your iStuff!

October 6, 2011 by Elias Shams Leave a Comment

Thank you for all the jobs you created! all the lives you changed and saved!

You showed us that we can build a huge corporation, make billions and have huge profit and still be loved and beloved. You crashed the stereotype of evil corporations.

We’ll all miss you!

Feel free to connect with me via awesomize.me

Filed under Apps, Tech Tagged with Apple, iPad, iphone, iPod, itouch, mac, Steve Jobs, tribute, visionary

How To Get Your App Stands out – Get them Awesomized First!

August 10, 2011 by Elias Shams Leave a Comment

If you are an app maker, I am sure you have already learned that App Store is such a competitive environment. You’ve developed an iPhone, iPad, or Android application. You’ve got it up on the App Store next to hundreds of thousands of other apps which they are also begging for attention. You built it unique, your tweeted it, you blogged about it, but not much luck with getting the word out yet. How do you make sure yours stands out?