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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.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

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: 2 Really Cool Companies

ReadWriteStart

First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. Creating that kind of systematic buzz is an excellent social media marketing strategy as well. Following a guerrilla p.r.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

ReadWriteStart

Suspects and prospects are everywhere in the vast realm of social media, watching, reading, commenting, engaging. Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. It's just not worth it.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

October 3rd, 2010 the Chubby Team 48 Comments. We did find some specific industry verticals where the model works (some high schools, some boxing and mixed martial arts events, some exclusive conferences), but not enough to warrant a large market and an independent company. the hardware ecosystem in India) and internal reasons (e.g.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. 5) Market Downturn.

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Steve Blank

The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) For example, US Steel had integrated vertically and was involved in the mining of the iron ore all the way to the production of various steel products, e.g., nails.