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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs

ReadWriteStart

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. I met Ram Kumar during my visit to Chennai and advised him to look at the Bioscope project in my Vision India 2020 book.

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“It’s okay to take profits and not hodl forever.” Does this make Alex Taub a web3 contrarian or just reasonable?

Hunter Walker

I had been in the NY tech scene since 2008/2009 and was just, generally, trying to be helpful to founders, investors, etc. HW: You then started your own company in the social media marketing/analytics space ( SocialRank ). My buddy Drew Austin got me into NFT’s back in December of 2020. This just helped speed certain things up.

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Could COVID Kill Entrepreneurship? How To Make Sure It Doesn’t

YoungUpstarts

This crisis will end up being much worse for small businesses than the 2008-11 sub-prime mortgage crisis. That 2008 crisis mostly hit banks, mortgage,insurance, automotive – all of which were primarily big, publicly owned stock companies. Evaluate how good you are at social media communication and promotion.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) April 16, 2020. Experiments run by Dan Smullen , who manages technical SEO for Independent News & Media , demonstrate that Google isn’t biased against paywalled content: Before launching our paywall in February, we implemented a soft wall—a registration wall. First Click Free (2008).

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

ReadWriteStart

Jobseekers, therefore, need help cleaning up their social media profiles so that objectionable material does not find its way to these background check scenarios, disrupting their chances of getting hired. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

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At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. You can register here.