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Girls Who Code: Crashing the “Brogram”

ReadWriteStart

Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. And where a company called Sqoot holds an API hackathon with a list of “great perks” that includes massages, a live DJ and “Women: Need another beer?

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Girls Who Code: Crashing the “Brogram”

ReadWriteStart

Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. And where a company called Sqoot holds an API hackathon with a list of “great perks” that includes massages, a live DJ and “Women: Need another beer? Or that less than 10% of venture-backed companies have women founders.

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Transcript of Tips for Attracting Local Clients

Duct Tape Marketing

John: And that’s really your analogy of thinking your website like an API, I mean the website still has to have this great information, it has to deliver that information if you will to go Google, so it’s not that you’re abandoning the website it’s just how it is maybe seen or where it is in the journey.

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The Great Shift: How to Master AI and Lead the Future of Content and SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

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

Both Sides of the Table

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Marketing & Publicity StartPR – StartPR allows you to monitor your brand on social media sites including blogs, social networks, and more.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s. They have become platforms with enabling structured methods (often as APIs) to allow smaller startups to syphon off inventory or users in exchange for revenue, ad inventory, branding or even more traffic.

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