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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

Pinterest is going to be the website to watch, along with other image-based social networking, search and sales websites. Look out for more products that aggregate and organize existing accounts and automatically scrub your inboxes, feeds and social media connections. Niche-Based Social Networks.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. Social cues to the rescue. The last couple of months have not been great for social networks. A minority might believe that the whole social media thing is going to die.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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Facebook’s acqui-hires–$24m on four companies in H1 2012

The Equity Kicker

between them, making the aggregate exit value of these acqui-hires 4.2x, which tells us that if the investors on average had a 24% stake they would have broken even on these deals. Lightbox – an Android app which syncs the photos on your phone with your social networks and provides cloud hosting of your photos.

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The 4 Most Important Drivers of Marketing Success

Duct Tape Marketing

Visualize industry related data – most popular X on Twitter, aggregate industry related tweets. Message of the day promote across staff social networks. Market segment hosted communities. Marketing Strategy Podcast Social Media Jay Baer Youtility' Facebook lead capture. Facebook contest by market segment.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

The panel was a typical Silicon Valley shmoozefest hosted at a law firm with about 75+ attendees. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► January. (1).

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

Recently, hes been engaged in a customer validation exercise around a new concept for a political action-oriented social network. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. Take a look and let me know what you think.