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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. Third, they have access — and want to gain more access — to influential networks that contain more buyers like them.

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

View from Seed

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. And most notably absent is building a network. One that provides everything that a big, valuable, growing network should.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

A quick look at the really nice sites developed in just a few months by companies like CircleUp, FundersClub, Bolstr, Seedrs, et al will show you that the base technical challenge of creating a marketplace/social network is not particularly difficult.

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The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

YoungUpstarts

brian_wong : Follow Brian Wong, founder and CEO of Kipp, a rewards network for virtual achievements. photomatt : Social media entrepreneur Matt Mullenweg is doing a little bit of everything these days, tweeting about his roles with WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, and more. Media & Art.

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Here are the 8 startups graduating from Chinaccelerator’s third class

The Next Web

The accelerator, founded by Cyril Ebersweiler and Sean O’Sullivan and now part of the Global Accelerator Network , got its start two years ago, graduating 6 startups in its first class and 9 in its second. It will also be competing with social network and messaging services like Sina Weibo and Tencent’s WeChat.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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F2F Still Matters

SoCal CTO

And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. Find avenues to network with these folks. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? in Computer Science.