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Identifying Pain in the First Step in a Sales Process – Here’s How

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Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” Have you found a way to best link your potential marketing leads in social media into activity that leads to more business?”. They don’t have a way to measure the effectiveness of a Like.”. “Do

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor. It has some similarities with Brizzly in this regard.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010. In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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14mm in Series C; $25mm in Series B raised in March 2010; $44mm raised in total. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. Read more: SEC S1 Filing (amended 05-03-2010) , peHUB. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, Revolution LLC (Steve Case).

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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They also provide a set of tools for artists to sell tickets directly to their fan bases through tools like Facebook ticketing and social media management tools. ShopNation : ShopNation, currently in stealth mode, is a next generation shopping platform launching in 2010. They are quite secretive so I’ll respect that.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. OTHER DEALS. Paperless billing for consumers.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Facebook will succumb to pressure and over time make this available to us to allow us more choice in being part of several social networks without having to spam all of our friends again.