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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). Thanks from switzerland, Nice story! Ps check mypicasso.com. link] Thomas Cornelius.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Indigo Room Featured Speaker: Whitney Wolfe Herd As Founder and CEO of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd helms one of the fastest-growing social networks in the world. Room 211–212 Sunday, March 11 Social Airbag with Spredfast CEO Rod Favaron Social networks were under fire in 2017 following foreign interference of the 2016 US election.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. I started out with a handful of dimes making cold calls from a phone booth in Grand Central Station. More general resources are: Tracy Williams at Olmstead Williams for PR.

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DEMO Report: Startup Creativity Through Variety

ReadWriteStart

The player can conduct transactions even when embedded in a social network or third-party website. "If Another cloud service panelists found impressive was Switzerland-based Koemei , which transcribes online video and audio. I was blown away by that one.". The accuracy was really high," Dillon noted.

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How To Suck At Social Media: An Indispensable Guide For Businesses

Occam's Razor

I believe that it was erroneous not to answer the two questions above, it was erroneous to be tempted by the Big Numbers and not understand how Social Media channels actually worked (streams, home pages, personalization, rankings and more). if your business should be on that network and 2. So, let's fix that error. They should.

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The 12 Strangest Celebrity Businesses

YoungUpstarts

Shue and a partner created CafeMom, a social networking site for moms to share worries, tips, and stories. proof beverage, called Mansinthe, is produced in Switzerland and can be bought online by anyone wanting to experience the green fairy. It was banned in the U.S. Donald Trump’s cologne.