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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible. Marty Zwilling.

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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

Because of the explosion of social media and mobile as the primary, go-to consumer device for local information, Google is increasingly losing search share to local directories, social media sites and maps apps. By Trevor Sumner, Chief Technology Officer of LocalVox. Facebook (has more than 3x the reviews of Yelp).

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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

It’s not too late to set up a presence on Pinterest and Instagram, and mobile apps aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Mobile, Mobile, Mobile! It’s crazy how much web traffic is being served to mobile phones now. You can’t ignore mobile, and yet most of the web isn’t optimized.

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Starcount.com: Charting The Stars In Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Measuring Your Popularity On Social Media. Starcount , he explains as he demonstrates the site via his laptop projected on a large TV screen, is a social media measurement engine that aggregates and measures social media popularity on a global and local scale across any genre. Monetizing Popularity.

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Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions

Occam's Razor

The rarest of the rarest of the rare who are on social media. You have aggregated data into three pieces and we all know aggregated data stinks at delivering insights! No simplified over promise under deliver aggregates! Minority perspective right? Who tweets after all. :). Clean into the three desired categories.

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10 Predictions About the Future of Ecommerce

mashable.com

Social Media. Social Media. Now the line is drawn between mobile and computer. Until a few years ago, mobile shopping was nearly unheard of. We read about mobile this and mobile that, still creating that delineation between mobile and computer. Follow @mashable. see more > Search.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 11 – Cyberwarfare –– Sumit Agarwal

Steve Blank

But in the private sector he’s done a number of amazing things; he headed up mobile at Google, then went back into the Pentagon where he was the youngest Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense ever in the Pentagon. Out of MIT, Sumit joined the US Air Force as part of Cyber Command and was one of the first officers in network warfare.