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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" He has 20 years’ experience as CTO.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

As further market proof of the power of Drupal in the enterprise, Acquia has received about $100 million in funding in the past 3 months, which puts its valuation at over $1 billion. It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I had always wanted to do consulting but was waiting until my son went off to college. After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. I realized that what worked for me could work for sales and marketing teams across the world.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

It attracted a very high quality crowd of senior executives from major investment banks and members of the innovation community — two groups that don’t normally mingle. My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Introductory remarks.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Heterogeneous architectures apply exciting advances in technologies such as GPUs (graphics cards originally invented for gaming and video), solid state memory, high network bandwidth and many other cloud components to break barriers and deliver meaningful progress. Significant capital has been raised in Peru and throughout Latin America.

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Twitter Link Roundup #110 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Pandora CTO Reveals Half of The U.S.

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Monday night: HBS Angels of NY Investor Meeting and Company Presentations

David Teten

With a mission to provide the best executive education online with brand-name academic institutions, authors, and experts; CorpU is a trusted advisor to world-leading organizations and is in the best position to bring “branded” higher education to the corporate market. Maestro Market. Grovo solves this problem.