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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

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One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. This then enables companies to rapidly roll out a widespread and pervasive social media footprint through its product. What Could Have Been.

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[Interview] Pekka Viljakainen, Author Of “No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age” (Part I)

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In this interview, Viljakainen also shares some thoughts about entrepreneurship and globalization. In 2004-2005, I found out we were recruiting thousands of people I started to realize that many of these people who are coming in, those born after 1985 – they are behaving differently. This is Part I of the interview.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Loading… Asia. Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif.,

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. But that is the least of the social media mis-manners modern party hosts and attendees are likely to encounter. Global Support. WSJ Asia Edition. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Message Center ( new). Edition Home.

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

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Social Media. That idea became ClickFacts, a malware solutions company for buyers and sellers of online media to identify and combat “click fraud”. Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good. was born and generated a lot of media interest.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

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While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?