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I’m excited to announce that about 3AM PST this morning Reply.com successfully filed for its much anticipated 2010 IPO.
SAN RAMON, CA – February 22, 2010 – Reply! Inc. today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common [...]
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The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday has left the island nation in complete and utter devastation with death tolls rising to a predicted 100,000. One of the worst disasters ever seen.
Haiti needs help from everyone and the Red Cross backed by the US State Department have launched a simple viral text message [...]
Another powerful use of social media and Twitter. LeapFish has teamed up with the Make-a-Wish Foundation to empower Twitter users with the ability to grant an ill child’s dream to go to Disneyland. A Tweet-A-Cause that just hit the wires and is beginning to climb through the Twitosphere.
Jacob, who is four years of age, has a rare [...]
The Web has evolved. It used to be a place where people came to just search for simple information. Now it’s a place where people come to also share information. Information today that is multi-media and more complex. Information today that is real-time and social – recommended by people who know, and people you know. [...]
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If you don’t understand why the Real Time Web is huge, you will soon.
Thanks to micro-blogging sites like Twitter, a constant stream of human-posted content has infiltrated the Web. This growing infiltration has created a bottoms up approach to content creation that via the progressive support of rapidly developing applications has and will continue [...]
Reply.com lifts Beta off its locally-targeted online marketing platform as it posts enhanced features and significant profits. In the face of a struggling economy, Reply.com has posted over 50 percent revenue growth in the Automotive and Real Estate categories and significant profits over the last several quarters.
Since its founding in 2001, Reply! has been a [...]
A few weeks ago I was honored to accept recognition as a Top 40 Under 40 Entreprenuer by Silicon Valley Business Journal. Although I’m not yet near my forties, it was great to receive the recognition and participate in a celebration of innovation with so many other CEOs from the valley.
It was truly a privilege [...]
Over many years and with many trials and tribulations in both business and in my personal life, I have been convinced that in this world there are 2 types of people; those that build and those that destroy. Those that build embody the positive spirits of creativity, love and creating value. While, those that destroy embody [...]
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The May 2009 Flip Mino Random Giveaway is now officially complete and the winner has been selected!
A big thank you to all the contestants and participants! Thank you for all the great tweets, follows and fun comments. So who’s the lucky winner?
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Its hard to imagine that its been almost 25 years since my parents secretly smuggled many of our family members out of Iran due to brutal religious persecution. Persecution that is unfortunately picking up once again in todays time.
A reader asked me to provide more info about this portion of my background and so I offered [...]
With all the publicity around WolframAlpha’s engine there has been a lot of buzz in the search space around what the next successful search engine will look like. It was great to get some coverage today from ChannelWeb as they covered WolframAlpha, LeapFish and the Search space.
Here is a snippet from the post :
“With [...]
May 2009 Twitter Giveaway! The March 2009 Twitter MackBook Air Giveaway went so well that I’m being asked for more! So this time I’m giving away a Free Flip Mino HD Video Recorder, suited for quick and easy capture and upload of videos to the web.
But you have to be in it to Win it! [...]
I was asked by Forbes this week to offer up some experience around some actions companies can take during tough economic times like these to maintain or even increase employee happiness and wellbeing. We all know that without a happy and thriving team, there’s no growth, especially in a recession.
At DotNext we strive to employ a [...]
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San Francisco Business Times : “Reply.com’s online sales lead system tallies big growth”
As a founder and former CTO and Chief of Product of Reply!, it was great to see Reply! featured in the San Francisco Business Times today. Reply! was founded in June of 2001 by Payam Zamani, Myself and John Truchard and is a [...]
LeapFish received a great post as part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series last week. The post was written by Ben Parr, who highlights some of our innovative new search features including the No-Click Search.
Here are some excerpts from the article :
“Genius Idea: When you’re performing a Google search, you are displayed information in a simple and [...]
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