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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years, and is a frequent contributor to various online publications.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. When I started Idea Grove in 2005, most PR firms had names like law firms – the name of the firm was the name of the owner or partners. Buttercloth was born. It was just natural. But I stuck to my gut feelings.

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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

Friday - May 27, 2005 at 09:21 AM in. During the two days of the show, one of their programmers sat in on my speech about building better customer service automation; I had an hour-long chat with the CEO and another of the founders; and their PR manager stopped by our booth for a 15-minute briefing about what we do. buy it on Amazon.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. Not to mention every major agency, many PR firms, etc. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space. No Dave S. = Elder Statesmen.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Working with my business partner and with my PR consultant, I first came up with the tag line, Motivate To Activate Your True Potential(tm). Back in 2005 under Walker, Dialpad Communications, Inc., an international voice over IP company, was sold to Yahoo! Here’s a bit of history.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Before you consummate a startup, ask everyone about their previous IP history. Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. I tried to continue reading but it is obvious that you are closer to PR or marketing than to the tech area. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. What did we do?

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