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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. so it shouldn't be long till they hop across the Channel. Réseau Entreprendre Paris , a network of business owners, and France Initiative , a network of local organizations, are examples of the many semi-private organizations that support startups. We have those too.

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Back to The Future: Power of SMS-Native

View from Seed

Instead they limit what channels they actually pay attention to. On the commercial side, increasingly ecommerce retailers have started to use SMS as a two-way communications channel with their customers. A SMS interaction which is deeply emotional, and feels personal, because of the intimacy of the channel. They don’t.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. Nirupama is looking to find a niche where she can penetrate the niche social network platform market.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation. Circle of Experts Contributed Articles Expert Networks Investment Research Market Research New York NextNY Social Network Analysis'

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Next-Gen Marketing Option for Fast-Growth Companies

The Startup Magazine

A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.