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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

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A Big Data Imperative: Driving Big Action

Occam's Razor

As I interpret it, big data is the collection of massive databases of structured and unstructured data. All the way back in 2007, I was evangelizing the value of moving away from the "small data" world of clickstream data to the "bigger data" world of using multiple data sources to make smarter decisions on the web.

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What is CRM? Customer Relationship Management Explained

Up and Running

It’s a system that can help you build a database of customer information, stay better connected to customers, and streamline your overall processes. Editor’s note : This article was originally published in 2007 and updated for 2021. Why is customer relationship management so important? Explore CRM trials.

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How Kerry McDuling Went From Employee To Running Her Own Publicity Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

That is via the media (TV, magazines, newspapers, radio, online media), direct to their own database of contacts and clients, online, through channels such as via other businesses, and through speaking opportunities. The other one is Patty Cash Club , for people who are really serious about achieving their goals.

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13 Helpful Organization and Productivity Apps For Small Businesses

crowdSPRING Blog

Airtable describes itself as “part spreadsheet, part database,” but there’s a lot more going on than just a replacement for Excel. One of Whimsical’s direct competitors is the web app veteran Lucidchart. How to replicate their benefits for remote workers and distributed teams is a challenge many companies face.