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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

by Enrico Moretti, author of “ The New Geography of Jobs ” Over the past three months, Facebook, Zynga and Groupon have lost between 33% and 52% of their market value. Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs?

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

This audience is immensely attractive to Brands and Marketers around the world. Completely ignore the question of whether Facebook works (for many, many, many companies it is a very effective marketing channel). It is always so cool to run marketing campaigns in large homogenous markets (like Europe, Asia, or large chunks of the US).

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. The above equation is something that marketers, brands and businesses need to take note of. For example, it’s no longer acceptable for fashion from Europe or anywhere to be a season late.

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Big Media, Big Government, Big Business, Big Problems

Growthink Blog

Crowdfunding, private equity and debt secondary markets like Second Market and SharesPost, peer-to-peer lending sites like Prosper.com and Lending Club, and the Big Three social networking giants - Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter - have made information and intelligence on, and access to opportunities better and greater than ever before.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. Let me start with a few addresses: 1355 Market Street. SMBs represent 55% of jobs and 66% of all net new jobs since the 1970s.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On IIT Kharagpur, India

ReadWriteStart

Clearly, the solution offers some concrete value, and conceivably, OMS can look at the global market later on in their evolution. The notion of Indian companies bringing software technology to the Western market at dramatically lower price-points is one that I have highlighted on many prior occasions. Univect Education Solutions.

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

The percentage rake is the amount that the marketplace charges as a percentage of GMS (gross merchandise sales), which typically represents net revenues for the marketplace. Booking.com is the unquestioned leader in online travel in Europe, and represents a substantial portion of TPG’s astounding $35B market capitalization.

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