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SXSW 2017: Connecting The Great Disconnect

Austin Startup

Every person is a friend, a citizen, a member of a global community. I started to make a test out of how long I could go without telling people what I do when a subject so directly relevant to my work in community engagement came up. It is why we at Consensus are embarking on building a community around what we call Next-Gen Consensus.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour. Cimagine (2012) – launched the world’s largest implementation of AR in retail to date with Shop Direct.

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4 Ways Online Communities Can Benefit Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Online communities have become a central part of everyday life and business operations. Since the early days of Internet message boards and email groups, participation in online communities has grown exponentially. Between 2012 and 2017, Facebook grew from one billion active users to over two billion. YouTube has over 1.5

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

By 2017, the tech industry in Toronto became one of North Americas fastest growing tech market, per a CBRE 2 018 North American Scoring Tech Talent report. Since 2012, it produced half of all the tech jobs added to Canada, per the CBRE research done on Canadian tech talent. The province has a robust start-up community.

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Twitter Link Roundup #163 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Coworking builds productive communities | GigaOM Pro – [link]. Mobile Payments Market Predicted To Reach $90B By 2017, Up From $12.8B In 2012 | TechCrunch – [link]. Business 2 Community – [link]. 12 big brands & celebrities that crowdsourced in 2012 | The Next Web – [link].

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Brand-Owned Terms: The Power—and Process—of Naming a Movement

ConversionXL

By September 2017, Drift had gotten closer, but a ”conversation-driven” platform, Gerhardt conceded , “sounds like a bunch of BS and jargon.”. September 2017. Finally, later in 2017, Drift found its term: “‘Conversational marketing‚’ Gerhardt said, “It’s the same exact concept, we just found a cleaner more relatable way to say it.”.

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Platinum Rapid Funding Group: How To Run a Successful Team

The Startup Magazine

Having set up shop in 2012, Platinum Rapid Funding harnesses its technology, manpower, proprietary data and resources, and unique business model to deliver what it currently does. Where do you see Platinum Rapid Funding Group going in 2017? By the end of 2017, we foresee associating with a lot more industries and businesses.