YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

2011 proved a watershed year for recognition of the power of Mom Marketing. Moms’ overwhelming embrace of social media and the profound impact of the recommendation culture on their consumer purchasing behavior. With a stagnate economy and lingering concerns about a recovery, Moms shifted long-held consumer habits in 2011.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Instead, buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way, often through the Internet, their social network, or just plain word-of-mouth or customer reviews. It’s a myth that social networks and their technologies are creating new approaches to marketing. One is known as ‘Mr.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. You can catch Carmen Benitez and Fetch Plus at the upcoming Echelon 2011. Young Upstarts is a media partner of e27 and Echelon 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

2011 was the year where global economy shaped the life for companies everywhere. Based on 2011 I think it’s possible to make a range of predictions for 2012 that basically is an acceleration of the trends we have seen in 2011: 1. Cloud computing, mobile and social networks are three mega trends reinforcing each other.

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Spain Global Software Social Network 193

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

According to the “ Small Business Marketing Forecast 2012 ” from Ad-ology, Social media for small business marketing has reached its tipping point. Just ten percent say they will not use social media in 2012, down from 24 percent for 2011 and 39 percent for 2010. small businesses.

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

After you claim your identity with placeholder domain names, accounts in social networks, and common blogging platforms, your next challenge is to create enough positive content as a “Google wall” to keep negative info out of the top Google search results.

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Reputation Affiliate Technical Review Social Network 178

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011 will be held in Bangkok, Thailand this year. Top five categories over the last two years: 1) Games; 2) Utilities; 3) Themes; 4) Entertainment; 5) IM & Social Networking. We have partnered with existing developer communities, including academic communities to offer developer days and workshops.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

The image above is taken in Takotna, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. More phenomenal photos from 2011 are in the Other section below. The State of Social Marketing 2011 – 2012 – [link]. Social network addiction around the world (Israelis are the most addicted) – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

.&# This is a direct result of innovation around the iPhone / mobile computing, Facebook / Social Networks and Twitter (as distinct from Social Networks). It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

May 26, 2011. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. link] leehower.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Here are his small business predictions for 2012: 2011 was the “Year of the Daily Deal”; 2012 will be the “ Year of the Empowered Merchant ”. million media tablets will have shipped in 2011. Social media isn’t just for early adopters anymore.

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Cloud Small Business Mobile Social Media 213

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

The hackathon follows a similar format of a Startup Weekend, Friday night – networking, idea pitches, some teams form, Saturday – teams done forming, hack hack hack, and Sunday - hack, submit, present your hack. Before the weekend, all the attendees can create profiles on CrowdVine.com, a social network for events.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

. • Turn your social media efforts into profit, rather than just another expense. According to the “Small Business Marketing Forecast 2011” from Ad-ology, social media will be the biggest budget gainer among small businesses in 2011, with 39.4% of respondents saying they will spend more. small businesses.

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Social Media Media Startup Curation 125

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

As of late last week, I didn’t plan on doing anything this week. I saw a posting on the Women 2.0 website asking for women mobile developers to apply to win 1 of 5 free conference passes and a demo pedestal for APPNATION SF. I couldn’t resist, so I put my name in the hat. I had won.

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Portland Oregon Mobile Incubator 63

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

Buddy Media builds, promotes and monetizes one of the largest networks of engaging and entertaining social media applications on the web. The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks. 8/31/2010 – Same thing.

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Software Media Social Media Advertising 105

The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple. Pham left the startup in June 2011 over unknown reasons and went to work at Los Angeles incubator Science.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2014

When Bebo, the UK social network went down in 2012, users flocked to Twitter to complain. In what is arguably the most massive security breach in history, hackers stole credit card and personal information from 77 million PlayStation users in mid-April 2011. Bebo – Use a banner ad to let everyone know. A banner ad.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

October 28, 2011. Now that end users spend as much of their personal time with software (in the form of social networks, tablet/smartphone apps, streaming media, etc) as they do with business software they’ve become much more discriminating buyers. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. Previous Entries.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

May 7, 2011 03:05:36 Reply 0 Flag this comment jpp123 Follow A CTO needs to have vision of their own, not just share the company vision. May 7, 2011 03:24:52 Reply 0 Flag this comment LarryN1 Follow A good profile for most if not all hires. Was debating between two candidates. This article made my decision for me.

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

June 5, 2011. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2012

For example: - Mobile searches increased by a massive 400-percent in 2011. - 70-percent of people on social networks are also online shoppers. 68-percent of businesses plan to integrate social media marketing with their e-mail marketing. For 2012, there are some trends that you need to be aware of.

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Marketing Social Network Social Media Mobile 254

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force.

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Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 14, 2011

As we head into 2011, we can safely say that to be effective within online PR , marketing, and communication we need to be social. Humans are social by nature. They realize they are faced with the somewhat daunting task of actually building their online social network, on their audience’s terms.

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Networking Social Network Singapore Social Media 187

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. Problem was, Facebook, Yelp and Groupon were gay enough where a dedicated social network wasn’t entirely necessary. The Premature Death Of Private Event Based Social Networks.

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Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 126

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

As of late last week, I didn’t plan on doing anything this week. I saw a posting on the Women 2.0 website asking for women mobile developers to apply to win 1 of 5 free conference passes and a demo pedestal for APPNATION SF. I couldn’t resist, so I put my name in the hat. I had won.

Portland 40

Portland Oregon Mobile Incubator 40

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2012

The explosion of online social networking continues worldwide, fueled by a recent slew of new niche social networks that range from the sharing of “filtered” snapshots with Instagram , or the social sharing of images with online pinboard Pinterest.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

To compare the two, in 2011 U.S. By comparison, in 2011 Chinese VC’s invested $13 billion in all deals. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. China now has plenty of both.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 40

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

From 2010 to 2012, the percentage of Americans following brands on social media jumped from 16 percent to 33 percent. That’s a significant increase, but it also means two-thirds of local social networkers aren’t following brands. Start-up companies have much work to do to make meaningful social network connections.

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Social Media Media Tampa Social Network 246

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. All rights reserved.

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Reputation Small Business Management RSS 61

VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

Mobile web usage in Spain is high, at 20% of mobile phone users in 2011. billion invested in Q1 of 2011. 4) The concept of networking is new here. Social networks are popular in Spain (especially Twitter and Facebook) and people are very social and personable, but business networking is only starting to bloom in Spain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

At any rate, it seems only appropriate that social media sites, which have dominated the Internet over the past few years, will likely lead startups back into the IPO game. Which stock would you bet on as the leader? Marty Zwilling.

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IPO Social Media Media Exit Strategy 223

YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2013

LinkedIn first established an office here in Singapore back in 2011. In the News LinkedIn professional social network Singapore social media'

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. Previous Entries.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. All rights reserved.

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Small Business Marketing Software Review Portland 66