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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Eventually, Reddit became wildly popular and was bought by Condé Nast, the owner of 20 other brands and media like Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker. BMW introduced subscription fees for their cars, creating revolutionary changes in the conservative automotive community. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!)

crowdSPRING Blog

At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Other tactics leverage partnerships with other businesses to create mutual value and introduce our respective communities to one another’s services or product offering.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

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Social Media. Social Media. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit Career Expos. In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Assuming Virality. "A Services dont spontaneously go viral. Follow @mashable.

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

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World Featured in US & World Featured: Facebook iPhone 4S Media Summit. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. AngelList is an online community that matches startups with investors to streamline the fundraising process. What is your viral coefficient?

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

Both Sides of the Table

Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). And so it goes with social networking. And then came AOL.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. Total Raised: $21.4mm. See: TechCrunch. Kontagent. -A

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Wednesday Guest Stars :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct.

Duct Tape Marketing

Jason Falls Jason Falls is a social media strategist, thinker, speaker and educator. He also offers a question-and-answer and learning community at ExploringSocialMedia.com. Shama is a bestselling author with her book - The Zen of Social Media Marketing: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue.