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SXSW Pitch Finalist: StrongSalt

Austin Startup

What’s your favorite thing about being based in San Jose, Calif.? On a more personal level, I celebrate independence and the courage for a person to say what he wants in the age of social media and political correctness where people are afraid to say how they really feel as if by sugarcoating the words we fix the problems.

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7 Easy and Effective Customer Segments to Target in Facebook Ads

ConversionXL

Facebook is, by far, the most promising social advertising platform for E-Commerce purposes — the site has 1.86B users , an average ROI on targeted ads of 152% , and is responsible for 85% of all social media e-commerce. The San Jose Sharks used this high-value segment to successfully to drive 33x ROI on their Facebook Ads campaign.

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The Shift Towards Universal Search

Genuine VC

universal & blended vertical search was a hot topic at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose last month), but I have heard a lot less buzz about it in startup circles. I've seen a number of conversations about universal search in the SEO trade circles (e.g. To me, there is potential underserved opportunity here.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

It’s like arguing against vertical software. Any perusal on Netcraft.com will show the (vast) majority of major Media companies, Internet Services Providers (ISPs), Web hosting companies and Mobile communications firms use UNIX/Linux as core OS and technologies. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. What’s your little shop making?

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