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Twitter Link Roundup #69 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! crowdSPRING’s latest small biz newsletter: lean marketing, social media, crowdsourcing & more – [link]. 24: The Unaired 1994 – [link]. Phenomenal.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems. This isn’t correct either.

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Umbrella People wins Startup Weekend Women’s edition in London

The Next Web

” That 45 was distilled down to a final ten who had five minutes to get their idea across to early stage investor Hussein Kanji, Belinda Parmar, CEO of Lady Geek, Nick Holzherr, CEO of Whisk and yours truly. There are terms that I hate, like social media, that’s b t. I also hate the term disruptive technology.”

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Building An Effective Board For Your Startup

Duct Tape Marketing

Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. He's been an early stage investor in entrepreneur since 1987. So I've been on boards, you know, going back to 1994 was my first board shortly after I sold my first company. Marketing Podcast with Brad Feld. Brad Feld (04:47): Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21, Part 1: Kathy Ku and Orin Herskowitz

Steve Blank

From 1994-98, Kathy was responsible for Stanford’s Sponsored Projects Office. In addition, Orin has served on boards or as the Principal Investigator for the NYC Media Lab , PowerBridgeNY , and the Columbia Coulter Translational Partnership. Clips from their interview are below.

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Box launches Box Accelerator as its COO reflects on working with young entrepreneurs

The Next Web

To confirm that the improvements in speed and stability were as it hoped, Box commissioned Neustar, a neutral provider of real-time information and analysis for the technology, telecommunications and media industries, to analyze performance against three major cloud storage providers. times faster than the closest competitor, globally, and 3.1

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Prior to this, Mr. Perkin was Executive Vice President at EmSense Corporation, a leading next generation media measurement company.