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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

Turk was among the first platforms to truly leverage the power of a distributed workforce and to demonstrate that providers around the world would happily participate in such a model. The users can search the database and read the reviews about how well businesses accommodate disabled people. Good for them. Photo: Paul Hocksenar.

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When The Mobile Evolution Turns To Revolution

YoungUpstarts

Leading companies are focusing on the development and distribution of dynamic mobile apps, reaching consumers and potential consumers on the one device that is never far from reach. For example, independent bands are becoming more and more adept at building their databases. What about small businesses?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Competes with HauteLook , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , Billion Dollar Babes , ideeli , Glam List.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. Building and populating databases of user-supplied information and content (copyright). Developing Web content (both the design and underlying code) (copyright, trademark).

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When You Should Still Use a Relational Database Instead of NoSQL

www.readwriteweb.com

In a blog post at DBMS2 , database veteran Curt Monash explains when its still best to use a relational database. Monash gives the following use-cases as examples of when a relational database is best: Youre building a low-volume, medium-complexity suite of applications that will evolve over time.

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Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail

www.cscyphers.com

13, 2011 13:30 in Startups. Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. Database (7). September 2011 (1). May 2011 (8). April 2011 (3). March 2011 (4). February 2011 (2). January 2011 (2). « A Quandry With LinkedIn. cc: @jeremyphoward >> 2012/02/28.

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Finally, A Social Media Marketing Strategy That Puts You Right In The Middle Of Your Target Market

ConversionXL

This not only destroys your chances for getting your content distributed, it also minimizes your ability to use social media channels to gather unfiltered feedback from customers, fans of your brand, and the market at large (more on this later). Distribution stops once they run out of social networks to publish to. Idea Validation. &