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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. What if all availability zones of Amazon in Virginia are disabled for a week? For a small company, the most likely cause of death is suicide.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Bill Austin March 22, 2007 11:08 AM Dennis McDonald in Alexandria, Virginia USA said. Here are some thoughts related to this topic, stimulated by an increasing number of requests to join "social networks" of one sort or another: "Network Unto Others As You Would Have Others Network Unto You" [link] March 27, 2007 1:06 PM Charles Edge said.

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Travel industry should learn how to listen to social media

Austin Startup

Scarborough, the co-founder of Tourism Currents, will speak at the Austin Innotech eMarketing Summit Oct. She discussed the changes within social media for the travel industry. How many resorts are truly monitoring social media? So many see social media as a threat, not an opportunity.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. The life of entrepreneurship is definitely overly glamorized on social media.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools. Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. MOST READ on FOLIO: F+W Acquires Aspire Media. West Virginia.

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20 Essential TED Talks For Entrepreneurial Students

YoungUpstarts

Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media. Considering effective social media use often translates to much better business and promotion, any advice on improving Facebooks, Twitters and blogs is extremely valuable (maybe even game-changing for some). Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex.