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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

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He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Subscribe to the Business channel. How Old Spice Revived a Campaign That No One Wanted to Touch. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Again he looked to the media industry history and pointed out that before Ted Turner founded CNN he had an entertainment channel.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

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Lead capture forms made sense in an era when phone and email were the dominant communication channels. True, some companies experimented with social media as a sales channel as well. The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! Image Source. Image Source.