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Rare event in Palo Alto today: fireside chat with Lifograph and Microsoft

The Startup Magazine

Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. She is also an Angel Investor at the Wharton Alumni Angels and Tech Angels, her investment interest being in consumer, mobile and SaaS startups. AGENDA: 5:45pm – 6:30pm – Networking reception.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles. A chief technology officer (CTO) is a C-suite executive who is focused on scientific and technological issues including web applications, mobile applications, electronic and digital media development.

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Entrepreneurs and the Wikipedia Road Map

The Startup Magazine

But how does a company, executive or technology that does not yet have a Wikipedia page achieve that goal? It depends to a large degree on how much legitimate media coverage a subject has received. Then the draft is posted in a neutral space and volunteer editors are invited to review it to weigh in on notability. No modifiers!)

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media marketing. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. Wikis are used to create collaborative websites on a given subject, maintain corporate intranets, and build simple data bases. You are now reading one of about 50 million out there already.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware.

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You Need to Be Listed on These 5 High-Visibility Directory Sites

The Startup Magazine

Turning up a new social media profile or directory listing takes all of 30 minutes. They are social media goldmines. If you or your company have any claim to the site’s ever-expanding definition of “notability,” you have a claim to a Wiki of your own. Alright, maybe an hour, if you want to do things right. Source: Pixabay.