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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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Tech-Business Divide - A Call To Arms

Seeing Both Sides

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. And many of them view the local government as an irrelevant factor in their business.

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Social Commerce: What It Is, What It Isn’t and Why You Should Care

ConversionXL

Experiment to see what works for you, but remember that Facebook is a social network and not everyone is sold on this social commerce concept, yet. With evolving technology, notably increased use of smartphones , and social media platforms, online shopping is changing and becoming more social.

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Where To Find The Most Angels To Fund Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. Keiretsu Forum.

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Start Here if You are Looking for Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Stephane Corlosquet – Massachusetts General Hospital. The web has gone social and is rapidly going semantic. The trend for social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc) is to expose their graph interfaces so new applications can automatically inspect and bring new value to undiscovered social patterns.