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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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The company addresses a widely-experienced pain: employers are now using social networks for background check on issues such as comments about prior employers, substance-usage, and general image issues that may come across as red-flags to a prospective employer. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy.

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Smart glasses, 3D content and the ‘iPhone moment’ for AR

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There’s no doubt about the potential of Augmented Reality (AR) and mixed reality (XR) and the role they play in advertising, social media, commerce, gaming etc. In its 2021 global consumer report , Snap predicted that 75% of the global population and nearly all smartphone users will be frequent users of AR.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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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.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

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The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. We did a cobranded social chat event on Tuesday that gave us an opportunity to actually test ride the Stanzr product. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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

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product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

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Then Gerard McDonald from Dublin, Ireland, discussed CustomerDiscovery, a concept-stage venture around online marketing services using social media mechanisms for customer acquisition. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. CustomerDiscovery.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. Intuit 2020 Research Report. 2010 Top 10 Small Business Trends. December 2010.

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