Keith Moore

Reblog from Mia Moore: Another beautiful day in the California...

keithmoore — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:52:28 -0700

Keith, Trish & Mia Moore in Muir Woods

Another beautiful day in the California Redwood Forests, home of the world’s tallest trees! “Simply Amazing” — Mia Moore

TOM REDDIN APPOINTED TO DATAMYX BOARD OF DIRECTORS

keithmoore — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:04:52 -0700

BOCA RATON, FL, APRIL, 2012 – Datamyx, a premier automated marketing information services company, today announced that Dr. Charles W. Stryker and Tom Reddin have been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors effective immediately. Their appointments will support Datamyx’s aggressive plans for expansion into new markets and increasing product offerings across its key verticals. Datamyx is a portfolio company of Halyard Capital.

Dr. Charles W. Stryker has over 20 years of experience assisting firms in the information services industry in all aspects of their strategy and business development as Founder and President of Venture Development Center, Inc. (VDC). During his time with VDC, Dr. Stryker has acted as an advisor to many leaders in the space including Acxiom, Inc., Affinion, IAC (NASDAQ: IACI), IBM (NYSE:IBM), LexisNexis, Nielsen Holdings (NYSE: NLSN), and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). Dr. Stryker has also played an active role in over 80 small to mid-sized firms and currently advises over 25 venture backed companies in the information services space. Recent VDC engagements have included BlueKai, Groupon, Jigsaw, Mint and Quova. Dr. Stryker has also served on the Boards of Directors of many public and private companies, including 24/7 Real Media, Greenfield OnLine, InfoGroup, Intelliquest and MyLife.

Mr. Reddin brings extensive experience fueling growth and building scale into early stage enterprises. As the former President and CEO of LendingTree, he was instrumental in growing the company from a small start-up into a nationally recognized brand and the country’s leader in online lending. Currently, Mr. Reddin runs Red Dog Ventures LLC, a boutique venture capital and advisory firm which focuses on early stage companies in the digital arena. He also sits on the Boards of several public companies, including Valassis Communications Inc. (NYSE: VCI), Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc. (NYSE: SKT) and Premier Farnell Plc. (LON: PFL). Earlier in his career, Mr. Reddin spent seventeen years in the consumer packaged goods industry, including five years as the Vice President of Consumer Marketing at Coca-Cola USA.

“With his many years of professional experience advising information services companies, Charlie is an ideal candidate to support our development of new, cutting-edge and technologically-advanced information products that will fuel our customers’ growth and optimize their marketing strategies,” said Ben Waldshan, CEO of Datamyx. “Tom will make a valuable addition to our Board, given his proven track record of taking companies of our size to the next level. His marketing expertise in the online lead generation industry will also help Datamyx advance its products and capabilities into the digital channels.”

“I have known Ben and his team for several years and have been able to observe the growth and diversification of the Datamyx business during that time. I am excited to help accelerate that growth and believe that Datamyx has a compelling market opportunity in front of it,” said Dr. Stryker.

Mr. Reddin added: “Datamyx’s proven products have significant potential not only for direct marketing customers in additional industry verticals, but also for online marketers seeking superior targeting and conversion. I look forward to working with the Datamyx team.”

About Datamyx
Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Datamyx leverages multi-sourced information, custom modeling and analytics tools, as well as its proprietary online technology platform, Intelidata Express, to provide marketers with actionable insights that help maximize return on their marketing investments. Datamyx’s products help optimize its customers’ acquisition, cross-sell, and retention marketing programs in the automotive, banking, credit union, mortgage, insurance, and consumer services verticals. Datamyx is also the only provider of integrated information, technology and analytics solutions derived from all three national credit bureaus as well as other compiled databases.

About Halyard Capital
Halyard Capital (www.halyard.com) is a New York-based private equity firm with over $600 million of capital under management, focused on leveraged buyout and growth equity investment opportunities in technology-enabled information, data analytics and business services companies that serve industry verticals with strong macroeconomic trends, such as Education, Healthcare, Marketing Services and Media. The firm has extensive experience and a proven track record within these sectors, having invested in businesses that include TRANZACT, HCPro, EducationDynamics, Engauge and Presidio Networks.

Best Bars For Business Networking - San Francisco, CA

keithmoore — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:43:00 -0700

Best Bars For Business Networking (San Francisco, CA) from Forbes.com

In the market and in the public eye, few industries are more exciting than the tech sphere and – though cities like Austin, New York and Seattle are making a name for themselves in that space – San Francisco and Silicon Valley represent the heart of the space.

Event management company, Schmoozed, made a list several months ago of the best rooftop bars in San Francisco for networking. The list included 620 Jones (620 Jones St.), Medjool (2522 Mission St.), The View (55 4th St.), Sens Restaurant (4 Embarcadero Ctr.) and The Water Bar (399 Embarcadero South).

Our own Forbes travel guide found Boulevard (1 Mission St.) to be a business-networking destination of note. The saloon-style establishment has hosted famous faces, political figures and now tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

Entrepreneur.com cited Elixir (3200 16th St.) as the best bar to get business and entrepreneurial gossip from a bartender – Nightclub and Bar magazine’s 2010 “Bartender of the Year,” H. Joseph Ehrmann.

For more cities and information, read the full article here »

8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses

keithmoore — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:26:00 -0700

8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses:

4. My employees are my peers, not my children.

Average bosses see employees as inferior, immature beings who simply can’t be trusted if not overseen by a patriarchal management. Employees take their cues from this attitude, expend energy on looking busy and covering their behinds.

Extraordinary bosses treat every employee as if he or she were the most important person in the firm. Excellence is expected everywhere, from the loading dock to the boardroom. As a result, employees at all levels take charge of their own destinies.

5. Motivation comes from vision, not from fear.

Average bosses see fear—of getting fired, of ridicule, of loss of privilege—as a crucial way to motivate people. As a result, employees and managers alike become paralyzed and unable to make risky decisions.

Extraordinary bosses inspire people to see a better future and how they’ll be a part of it. As a result, employees work harder because they believe in the organization’s goals, truly enjoy what they’re doing and (of course) know they’ll share in the rewards.

Full Article at Inc.com »

DESIGN ISN’T JUST WIRE FRAMES OR VISUAL STYLE; IT’S ABOUT THE PRODUCT AS A WHOLE, WRITES SAHIL LAVINGIA

keithmoore — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:39:08 -0800

Design is shrinking the gap between what a product does and why it exists. Designing is not just about picking the right font or gradient. Stop thinking about design in terms of wire frames or visual style; it is about the product as a whole. Designing is figuring out the purpose of your product and how you orient everything else around it. And that means that everyone within a company plays a role in the design process. And that means that everyone in a company needs to learn design literacy. It’s a hard task. Everyone tells their MBA-wielding friends that they should learn to code: “Anyone can do it,” or “It’s going to be the new literacy.” People think code is the basis of a working product. But what about design? How often are people told that they should “learn to design”?

Excerpt from a great Fast Company Design article by Sahil Lavingia: Pinterest’s Founding Designer Shares His Dead-Simple Design Philosophy

SF Palace of Fine Arts - Trish :)

keithmoore — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:19:13 -0800

SF Palace of Fine Arts - Trish :)

Want People to Return Your Emails? Avoid These Words in Email Marketing

keithmoore — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:35:00 -0800

Want People to Return Your Emails? Avoid These Words in Email Marketing:

Next time you write an email subject line, think twice about the words you’re using.

Loading your message with words such as “confirm,” “join,” “press,” or “invite” is not a good idea if you want a response, says data from Baydin, the makers of email plugin Boomerang.

Baydin recently extracted data from five million emails its users handled — either using the company’s “email game” or scheduled for later via Boomerang. It found that some subject-line words, such as “apply” and “opportunity,” got more responses than words from the aforementioned list.

Its data also suggests the best time to send emails is before work. Users who scheduled messages to read later, using Boomerang, most often wanted to deal with them around 6 a.m.

Already sending emails packed with “opportunity” at 6 a.m. and not getting a response? You’re in good company.

Infographic Breaking Down Apple’s Billions

keithmoore — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:23:37 -0800

Infographic Breaking Down Apple’s Billions

Photo: Mia Moore meets Princess Ariel [The Little Mermaid] at...

keithmoore — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:04:01 -0800

Photo: Mia Moore meets Princess Ariel [The Little Mermaid] at Disneyland.

How Facebook's Expected $100 Billion IPO Breaks Down

keithmoore — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:09:37 -0800

How Facebook's Expected $100 Billion IPO Breaks Down:

Rumors are flying about Facebook Inc. going public this year. So, just how much money is the world’s largest social network worth? Reports project that Facebook will go public some time between April and June. The company itself has remained hush-hush about the initial public offering.

A normal sight for people driving near the Google headquarters...

keithmoore — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:30:00 -0800

Google Self Driving Vehicle 1

Google Self Driving Vehicle 2

Google Self Driving Vehicle 3

A normal sight for people driving near the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Ca., here are some quick shots of the Google Self Driving Vehicle, which is still in ‘Google Beta’ I assume.

I admit that the Google Self Driving Vehicle does amazingly well considering the notoriously bad local drivers in the Mountain View / Sunnyvale / Cupertino area, where you can see someone do a triple lane change at 10mph in a 45mph zone, on a daily basis.

CoverHound Names Keith Moore to Board of Directors

keithmoore — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:51:00 -0800

SAN FRANCISCO, California — CoverHound today announced the naming of Keith Moore to its board of directors. Moore is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at AcademixDirect, Inc., after prior roles as General Manager at LendingTree and IAC, and Senior Vice President of the 2008 IAC spinoff Tree.com.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Keith to the team. He’s an insurance industry veteran and an efficient brand marketing expert who will be a valuable asset as we seek to make the CoverHound brand synonymous with finding the right coverage at the right price,” said Basil Enan, CoverHound Founder and CEO.

CoverHound is where smart shoppers find car insurance. Users can calculate their personal insurance needs, compare accurate rates from top carriers — and buy the right policy at the right price. The product will beta launch in January 2012.

Moore will join the CoverHound board alongside Jon Soberg, Senior Vice President at Blumberg Capital, and CoverHound Chairman Enan. This is yet another milestone in the short lifetime of the company, which recently launched CoverHound Insurance Solutions, a national full-service agency, and extended its footprint by opening an additional office in Southern California.

“CoverHound will be an innovation leader in both the insurance and comparison shopping marketplaces, so it’s definitely an honor to join their board,” said Moore. “I am looking forward to helping the team as CoverHound grows into a market leader.”

Moore has worked in Internet product development and marketing for more than 16 years, with deep knowledge and relationships within both the insurance and lead generation worlds. Other positions held by him include Chief Marketing Officer at iContact, Senior Vice President at LoanWeb.com and Vice President, Marketing, Sales and Internet Operations at Western Mutual Insurance, where he was responsible for developing, launching, and successfully marketing the web’s first homeowner’s insurance instant quotes with automated underwriting and preferred policy binding options.

About CoverHound

CoverHound powers your car insurance searches on the web. Dedicated to giving consumers transparent access to the best car insurance rates, CoverHound provides smart recommendations and personalized quotes. With the guarantee of no spam and promise to keep all private information safe, consumers stay in control. CoverHound secured seed funding from Blumberg Capital in June 2011. For more information, visit coverhound.com.

North Carolina Tar Heels face Michigan State today at 7pm ET /...

keithmoore — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:15:00 -0800

North Carolina Tar Heels face Michigan State today at 7pm ET / 4pm PT on the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego, Ca.

North Carolina has a ton of famous alumni attending the game, including former basketball standouts such as James Worthy, Vince Carter, and Tyler Hansbrough, but the list of celebrities doesn’t stop there. Five for Fighting and Billy Currington are the co-headliners for a post-game concert.

CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Diversity in Silicon Valley

keithmoore — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:17:49 -0800

CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Diversity in Silicon Valley:

cnnmoneytech:

We hear lots of anecdotes about the difficulties that minorities face in the tech industry, but hard numbers on the issue are scarce.

We spent more than two months trying to get data, and we posted a piece about the results this morning.

Google+ Launches Branded Pages

keithmoore — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:35:00 -0800

Google+ Launches Branded Pages:

Already using Google+? Follow Mashable for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates. Google has finally unveiled brand pages for Google+, allowing businesses and brands to join Google’s social network. “So far Google…

Google Direct Connect Hooks Search and Google+ Pages Together

keithmoore — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:28:24 -0800

Google Direct Connect Hooks Search and Google+ Pages Together:

Google has rolled out a new feature called Direct Connect, which makes it dead simple for users to find and follow brands on Google+ via Google Search. Whenever a user wants to find a brand on Google+, all they have to do is type “+” in Google Search, followed by the brand or business …

"You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover..."

keithmoore — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:42:47 -0700

““You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.””

- Steve Jobs

"When we listen, we acknowledge others’ experience and expertise. When we talk, we acknowledge..."

keithmoore — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:33:47 -0700

“When we listen, we acknowledge others’ experience and expertise. When we talk, we acknowledge our own. Maybe your current forte is listening, perhaps it’s speaking. But success depends on learning to do both.”

- Whitney Johnson, founding partner of Rose Park Advisors (@johnsonwhitney) in a post on HBR.org

Another beautiful weekend in Silicon Valley. Hang on Mia...

keithmoore — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:58:21 -0700

Another beautiful weekend in Silicon Valley.

Hang on Mia Moore!

The Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors as published on Search...

keithmoore — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:17:21 -0700

The Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors as published on Search Engine Land’s Guide to SEO.