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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

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. However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them. MapWide.com.

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Open Positions at the ATI

Austin Startup

The Austin Technology Incubator is hiring for these positions, so make sure to apply now. ATI has served the entrepreneur community for over twenty years and focuses on the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience verticals. IT & Wireless Incubator “Assistant Director&#.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Incubating companies. – Network.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Incubating companies. – Network.

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Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She’s also got a new book called Social Media Success for Every Brand: the five StoryBrand Pillars That Turn Posts Into Profits. And for a while I was working on the vertical of religion. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

ReadWriteStart

Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. Now, the other wonderful feature in Stanzr is that all these conversations are shared across social media platforms - Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook. Creating that kind of systematic buzz is an excellent social media marketing strategy as well.