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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

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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Baby Boomers May Be Your Biggest Startup Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. 65 percent of online users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook. I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself.

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6 Medical Professionals Who Are Killing It On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Social Media is a funny place. Enter the new breed, the doctor blogs, the general medical academic blogs, and the nursing blogs taking social media by the horns and making waves. KevinMD – KevinMD is a website founded in 2004 by physician Kevin Pho. There is a new breed of blogger (and vlogger!)

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Encore Entrepreneur Is The New Baby Boomer Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. 65 percent of online users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase. These trends seem likely to persist.

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7 Strategies To Cultivate Next Generation Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

They started out as that spoiled generation of kids, born between about 1982 and 2004, who had everything, and could care less about business. In addition to the normal hurdles of growing up, millennials have had to deal with a media-saturated world of conflicting messages, celebrity excesses, and viral distractions.

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The Evolution Of The Podcast

Duct Tape Marketing

Todd is the CEO of Blubrry Podcasting – a podcast media company that represents 105,000 Audio and Video podcasters in which his company provides advertising opportunities, media distribution/hosting, podcast media statistics, and other services. That was the one they started in 2004. So Todd, welcome to the show.

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