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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

Gordon Platt, President, Gotham Media , observes, “You may meet people on-line, but when’s the last time you really made a long-term, financially meaningful commitment exclusively as the result of a virtual interaction?” I’ve listed below my current social media toolkit. Tech stack. I host on Hostforweb **. Crunchbase.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

A thought leader in the area of big data analytics, social media, optimization, machine learning, and data mining, he also served as a Venture Advisor focusing on big-data analytics at Trident Capital , and was on the advisory board of several startups. . The third element you need is data. Steve : And they need to agree. Evangelos : Yes.

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The Story Behind Our Investment In Fiddler Labs

Haystack

Social media is one of the biggest examples of this, inverting and transforming how information flows. Algorithms are powering most of that flow, and these algorithms are often designed to maximize engagement, reduce costs, and the like. This is what they call the “Black Box.” Enter, Fiddler Labs. Some states in the U.S.

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

David Teten

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. .

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5 Biggest Small Business Marketing Challenges (and How To Overcome Them)

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s unlikely that you’ve got the budget for nationally syndicated ads or a commercial during the Super Bowl. Do you have a website, social media accounts, and positive online reviews? Search engines used complex algorithms to determine what web pages appear when a user types in a search query. Content Marketing.

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YouTube Marketing And Analytics: A Primer For Magnificent Success

Occam's Razor

I would have never bumped into my Prudential commercial in any place other than YT because of how I consume media.] Some have even tried original content (a la GoPro ), but originality without key integrations into the overall marketing strategy and media mix is hard to pull off/sustain. When I have a choice, I now buy Prudential.

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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

mashable.com

What Google’s Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business. Ever since Google started naming its algorithm updates after furry black and white creatures, we’ve been inundated with talks of pandas and penguins, and how they’re taking down websites one ranking at a time. Google changes its algorithm about 500 times a year.