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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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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. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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

ReadWriteStart

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

VC Cafe

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. Snap Spectacles. Magic Leap. Magic Leap has been through a pivot.

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

Transformify

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. Lagos, a Nigerian port city, is the home of more than 60 startups focused on solving social problems. Business / Finance. With a population of 11.4

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