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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

Tonight’s event at the 5A5 Steak Lounge in San Francisco was even better. The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

ReadWriteStart

I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. Creating that kind of systematic buzz is an excellent social media marketing strategy as well.

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Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur)

pandodaily.com

Most important: I needed the time I spent at TechCrunch to learn what was powerful about new media. It’s hard for someone who has only worked in old media to get it. Likewise, I needed to distill what elements of old media weren’t broken and should be worked back into the blogosphere. Gregor Kennedy. off topic.

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10 Essential PR Tips for Startups

mashable.com

World Featured in US & World Featured: Facebook iPhone 4S Media Summit. Sign up for her course on “ PR for Startups ” to learn more about getting media coverage for your fledgling business. Then research which journalists at that publication cover the vertical in which your startup or its news would fall.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco. We realized that the cost of manufacturing of trailers needed to come down and as a result we’ve decided to vertically integrate the manufacturing and building of STERLINGS trailers in Mexico. We are able to do that because: 1.

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

abovethecrowd.com

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. People price differentiate all the time. Bill Gurley : Great.