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Make the Market Work for You: Pick an Industry, Not a Job

Reid Hoffman

In turn, the success of all professionals—of the startup of you—depends on employers and clients and partners choosing to buy your time. Mark Zuckerberg is alive; social networking technology is a huge wave and will be for some time. What are some examples of current waves?

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

thebarefootvc

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). Rickshaw drivers in India have cell phones as do camel drivers in the remote Rajasthan desert.

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The New Order of Silicon Valley: Forget the Silicon Part

Diego Basch

Then social networks, and finally mobile computing. Either you will bootstrap the business or you will partner with someone local to fund it, because VCs won’t give you the time of the day. build an execution team wherever convenient (could be Asia, Europe, India, anywhere in the US, who knows).

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard

crowdSPRING Blog

Instead of countless usernames and passwords, you have one identity to use for a variety of activities you want guaranteed security: online shopping, social networking, online dating, and online financials. miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

Today, instead of going niche and focused, he and his partners are going broader, even, and planning to burn even more money. Then Nirupama Mallavarupu from Summit, New Jersey, discussed PTA Portals, a platform for building niche social networks for private groups, starting with Parent-Teacher Associations.

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Mobile Community mig33 Announces Developer Program And Partnerships

YoungUpstarts

The company also introduced 12 new initial development partners, including China’s Kooky Panda , Indonesia’s Elasitas , India’s Nazara, Indigo Entertainment from India, as well as Singapore’s The Mobile Gamer. “They also have an engaged community ready to embrace social gaming,&# he adds. .

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Top Locations For Small Business Professionals: LinkedIn

YoungUpstarts

Savvy small business owners know the power of professional networking, but in recent times they’ve also climbed onto the bandwagon of online professional networking with LinkedIn , the world’s largest professional network with more than 175 million members worldwide. who are small business professionals.).