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Is The Quest For “Software Margins” To Blame For Twitter’s Trolls, Facebook’s Russians and YouTube’s Fake News?

Hunter Walker

The resulting impact is very profitable, fast-growing success stories with high gross and net margins. Dismissing a company as “nice but doesn’t have software margins’ is the “yeah, nice personality I guess” of venture investing. Photo by Bill Jelen on Unsplash.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. And most notably absent is building a network. One that provides everything that a big, valuable, growing network should.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. Global Demand. A global market enables the company to sell vastly more copies of its software without increasing its production costs.

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A Guide to Reputation Management: Build an Audience of Superfans

ConversionXL

But you can overwhelm negative sentiment with positive content from others, creating a net positive effect. A positive reputation also contributes to business goals (such as growth, leveraging social proof , and network development). Focus on finding a network of diehard fans, and cater your content to their needs.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

She might be a “promoter” of your firm in Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys, a member of several associations that interest you, and an avid social media networker, he explains. Third, they have access — and want to gain more access — to influential networks that contain more buyers like them.

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

The percentage rake is the amount that the marketplace charges as a percentage of GMS (gross merchandise sales), which typically represents net revenues for the marketplace. A sustainable platform or marketplace is one where the value of being in the network clearly outshines the transactional costs charged for being in the network.

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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.