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Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

Most of all, they have a strong community of followers who are hungry for new information about apps, software, and new startups. For the last 20 years, the site has been uncovering and curating the most innovative thinking and ideas on the planet. Why it’s great: Springwise is a great website to promote your app or software.

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The Collaborative Web: Github is the New Flickr

This is going to be BIG.

The seminal application of the collaborative web--Github--was launched in April 2008. The idea of working together in communities to share best practices around creation has inspired companies that get people doing stuff like Makerbot and Windowfarms. It's a web where 1+1 really does equal more than 2. Need to find a collaborator?

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Making the NYC Community Smaller

This is going to be BIG.

When I was in college, at Fordham''s scenic Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, I deeply rooted into my community. Being intensely involved in community life there made the campus seem small and familiar. Passing on that experience has been at the core of what I do in the NYC tech community for the better part of the last decade.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. However, large companies are recovering from the shock of the 2008 collapse and re-aligning to the New Normal.

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Startup CEO New Years Resolutions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Scott Albro of Focus , a knowledge sharing community for business people, has fully embraced the idea of constant iteration for 2011, taking the best practices of social media to the business media world. Glenn Rogers of CarDomain , a community of auto enthusiasts, concurs: Traffic,traffic,traffic! Plan big, increment small.

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4 Strategies for Managing Your Online Brand

ReadWriteStart

While the specific tactics you take for each of these will be certainly different depending on the tools you choose to use, I think everyone needs to take steps around the following four strategies: Refine your personal elevator pitch Monitor what's being said about you online Proactively do content marketing Aggregate and curate to reinforce.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. Those things all got created in 2007, 2008.

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