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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc. What are the risks and rewards?

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Student Startups: How To Launch Your Business While In College

YoungUpstarts

When we look at successful startups we often focus on how the company has been successful with their end products or services but we often ignore what the founders went through and did to be successful. College is one of the best places for a business startup where you can be mentored and meet equally ambitious co-founders.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. work with the world’s leading pharmaceutical, bioscience, and medical device com.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. The phrase “reddit” came to RedditM co-founder Alexis Ohanian while in the library of the University of Virginia in 2005. Insomnia Cookies. This article was first posted in Online Business Degree.

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Balloch earned a BS degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. She is the Founder and CEO of Volunteer Spot an online coordination app that facilitates volunteering. Robert Dahl.

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The Lightspeed Batphone?—?Welcome Brian Kasser and Meredith Kendall

Lightspeed Venture Partners

It allows our founders to have a direct line to us, and lets us respond with urgency and engage with founders when, where and how we can be most impactful. Over the years we’ve had the privilege of working with amazing founders and helping them grow from infancy to IPO or acquisition in many cases. And it works.

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Oksana?s Story: Geoffrey Frost

Austin Startup

Geoffrey is legendary in the world of advertising, and we could write a small book on what can be learned from him in that field. She is the Managing Partner/CEO of Sputnik ATX, an accelerator that funds maker-founders with ideas to create positive change. We are not looking to work less, or less effectively. That is for another day.

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