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Implementing Social Media’s Secret Weapon

Feld Thoughts

My partners and I have continued to invest aggressively in what we believe is social media’s secret weapon which we refer to as the comm channel in a hat tip to the TV show 24. While mobile phones used to only really work effectively with SMS, you now have SMS, email, and push notifications.

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“Small Business” Does Not Mean “Disadvantaged”. Here’s Why.

YoungUpstarts

SMS, video conferencing, and file sharing on the cloud can keep different locations or traveling sales and management in sync in essentially real time. The internet with its near real-time data transfer rates allows companies to connect every day with more consumers, partners, and vendors.

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StillSecure Announces Cloud Security Solution and Partnership with SoftLayer

Feld Thoughts

StillSecure fundamentally believes that service providers – telcos, datacenter, cloud providers – will be the channel to market for security solutions and I agree. They have built an amazing set of solutions for colocation and dedicated server environments and have solutions that can apply to some higher-end cloud users.

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Not All Hot Startups Live Up To Their “Change The World” Billing—And We Have Data

ReadWriteStart

Coursera (“An education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free”). Twilio (“Lets you use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP and SMS applications via a web API”). ”).

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Farmers subscribed to daily updates via SMS on weather and crop prices. Villagers in rural areas are now connected to health services via SMS updates and “dial a doctor” services. Armed with new information via mobile phones, they are able to make more informed decisions about when to plant and where to sell their goods.

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Boost Customer Satisfaction with Salesforce Distributed Marketing

The Startup Magazine

For instance, they are your vendor partners, franchisees, etc., For large companies with partner networks, Salesforce’s distributed marketing helps customers do not have a “disconnected” experience with the brand that can be a frustrating affair for them. Enjoy the benefits of personalized messages.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

ReadWriteStart

go-to-market strategy, and I advised him to try to recruit a channel partner like SuccessFactor or Taleo with major presence in the talent management space. I also advised him to apply for the Microsoft Startup Challenge grant in the cloud category. Rohit is interested in exploring a U.S. DIYComputerscience.com. Wish Them Today.

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