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5 myths about the marketplace that mobile strategies busted

The Next Web

Communities are incredibly hard to create and curate so they cannot simply be bolted on. Modi also says startups should invest internally to inspire employees to have empathy for each other and for their customers. Myth #2: You can bolt on community, once the commerce engine is going. HealthTap has built up a network of over 50,000 U.S.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

We have spent a great deal of effort to pull together some of the smartest experts in the money-raising field, and the blog is carefully curated to be useful specifically to entrepreneurs seeking funding. This added exposure can result in indications of interest (investment, acquisition, partnership, etc.)

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

AUTHORS delivers insights and predictive analytics to entertainment companies during the acquisitions process, supporting editors and producers in making smart project decisions. To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Erik Dahlman at erik.dahlman@albinodragon.com Albino Dragon AUTHORS.me

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ). It needs to help us to discover and curate content that is relevant to us from all the noise. This involves learning context and content attributes.

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Solving The Chicken And Egg Equation In A Marketplace Business

YoungUpstarts

I also used the three months to ramp up our customer acquisition and marketing so that we will have a steady flow of new passengers visiting our website. As the legend goes, the founders of Reddit used fake accounts to populate content on the site for a long time until the community started to curate content themselves.

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

ConversionXL

ABM teams then began curating content and tagging it by use case, industry, and persona. Snowflake used content marketing platform Uberflip to curate and tailor content for specific accounts, using a variety of marketing tactics, including ads, email marketing, direct mail, and sponsored content. Gates and weights.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks.