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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them. Nirupama is looking to find a niche where she can penetrate the niche social network platform market. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Mucker Lab

Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. Out of hundreds of social networks launched, only one changed the world. Vertical integration of different funding risks. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. The average (or even above average) horse never wins.

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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

VC Cafe

The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. eXelate eXchange was launched in 2008 and includes some of the world’s leading publishers. calcalist ]. calcalist ].

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How and Why Periscope Might Make Sense for Small Business

Duct Tape Marketing

” I mean everyone knows the best way to be considered a thought leader in social media is to be the first one with a course telling people how to profit from a new social network. Making Sense of Social Media for Your Business My good friends at Vertical Response are hosting a webinar.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

In a May 2008 blog post, The Challenges of Location-Based Social Networking , I include a few excerpts from his post-mortem, in which he essentially predicts FourSquare: Most importantly, there was a “location problem”. Video producers are afraid of charging for content, because they don’t think people will pay.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. It’s like arguing against vertical software. Working for or started something in 2008 that may or may not make it. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET.

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