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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

There’s a couple different forces I see at work: 1) Selling & Customer Acquisition - In the last 5 years, the biggest force in business software was the impact of the cloud as an infrastructure layer and product/service delivery mechanism. companies on user acquisition are increasingly being applied to SaaS companies.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

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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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. Alignable is a network exclusively for business owners , conceptualized by Eric Groves and Venkat Krishnamurthy. Next-Gen Networking.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

As vibrant as the China venture business has been, 2012 was a different story. 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. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7 In the U.S.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

As vibrant as the China venture business has been, 2012 was a different story. 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. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7 In the U.S.

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3 Simple Tips to Increase Your Following on Pinterest

Duct Tape Marketing

In January 2012, it was announced by comScore that Pinterest was the fastest website ever to reach 10 million unique visitors. The above screenshot shows the group board results for the search “social media marketing.” Integrate Pinterest With Your Other Social Media Channels. photo credit: seo.com. Google Plus.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime.