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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

-Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Competes with McAfee , Thawte. Potential competitors: Gilt Groupe , ShoeDazzle.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If someone wants to become an entrepreneur, is it more important to keep looking for a really good media idea that you can do a month’s worth of customer development on or is it better to think of literally what complete start up can I make in a week? My gut always is, competing on price just doesn’t work.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other.

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5 Content Marketing Strategies for Niche B2B Industries

ConversionXL

Their typical buyers—facilities managers, architects, and commercial designers—rarely used social media. Set up in 2003, the website has a strong network-effect moat that makes it harder for other blogs and publications to compete. or “Where can I find a pricing consultant for a non-profit organization?”.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

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Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network. I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. That podcast is included here along with a transcript. Bill Gurley : Great.