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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. He built & IPOd Demand Media. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively. Acquisitions are happening more and more, while companies like PillPack, Actifio, CarGurus, OnShape, Acquia, Applause, and others continue to march forward. Furthermore, how is that value defined?

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. So what can you do?

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Fueling Your Growth With Facebook Groups And Communities

Duct Tape Marketing

He was part of the management team that was instrumental in launching NYTimes.com’s first digital paid product and the acquisition of About.com. 22:24] Retention and recruitment have become really hot right now for a lot of organizations – what role can community play? [24:13] And obviously social media has oh, geographic constraints.

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The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points

www.ere.net

Smart prospects will also look for information about your firm and what it’s like to work there in places you can’t control, including blogs, ratings sites, and via social media. Some organizations also consider it a goal for recruiters to work individually with new hires to improve retention. © 2012 ERE Media, Inc.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

I first got to know the person who recruited me to HomeAway when he volunteered as a judge at Jason Calicanis ’ LAUNCH festival hackathon , for which my friends and I flew from Austin to San Francisco just to participate and surround ourselves with some of the world’s smartest developers, designers and tech nerds at-large.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

Now consider a traditional media business. The value of the attention that the media company collects determines how profitable it is. In the old days, these media companies would then themselves plow this profit back into marketing and advertising, and grow. Sorry about that.) They get focused solely on growth.

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