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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing social network for somewhere in the mid-seven figures. After co-hosting MicroConf in early 2011 I was on the prowl for the next big thing.

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Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail

www.cscyphers.com

13, 2011 13:30 in Startups. Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. facepalm Spammed within an hour >> 2012/02/28 RT @mikeloukides : best customer may not be the 1 who buys the most, but who has the most influence on social networking. Social Networking (22). social networking.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. Office for Mac 2011 Delivers the Good.

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9 Unlikely Entrepreneurs Who Changed The Market

YoungUpstarts

Together, the two developed new search engine designs and algorithms, which led to the creation of the PageRank system and later Google. Who would have guessed that a young brainiac from Harvard would create the biggest and most successful social network in the world? Henry Ford. which includes Harpo Films and Harpo Radio, Inc.

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

Thursday, January 27, 2011. Instead, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. May 1, 2011 10:32 PM. June 28, 2011 3:41 PM. ▼ 2011. (7). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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What are the Technical Performance Requirements for your Startup?

SoCal CTO

It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. What computations / algorithms are part of the application? Web Application such as Web Mail or a gated Social network. Matching algorithms? How many might be using the application at the same time (concurrent users)? How big is the data set?

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Finally, A Social Media Marketing Strategy That Puts You Right In The Middle Of Your Target Market

ConversionXL

On Facebook in particular, this poses a real problem, because of the way the newsfeed algorithm is calculated. . The most obvious is that eventually, you’ll just run out of social networks to publish to. Distribution stops once they run out of social networks to publish to. check yours here ).