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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Professional expert networks allow you to efficiently convert your financial capital into relationship capital. This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. Previously posted at Forbes.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Uh-oh! Do you have a “sitcom” startup?

Up and Running

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Do the same thing on other social networks with advertising platforms, like LinkedIn and Facebook. Citi bike - a bicycle sharing company based in and serving New York City. Sold to Yahoo! You’re solving a problem! This is also called value creation.

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7 Retargeting Case Studies That’ll Boost Your Current Campaigns

ConversionXL

Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative. SteelHouse, a New York based retargeting SaaS/service hybrid, helped the nation’s leading online healthcare marketplace (take a break and breathe) achieve some high tempo growth.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Groupon Co-Founders to Teach at U of Chicago’s Booth School

Campus Entrepreneurship

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), The firm offers email subscribers a deal-of-the-day coupon at a local business, then encourages them to share it with their social networks. If enough people sign up for it, the offer is good.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Joe Silverman, New York Computer Help ! #3) Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better.