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4 Reasons Gen Z Will Rule The Tech World By 2020

YoungUpstarts

Surprisingly, 42% of Gen Z claims that social media directly influences how they feel about themselves and how they see the world. With such a strong connection to social media, tech marketers will start to focus their campaigns on social networks more than they do now. Going mobile. In addition, 35.5%

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The Consumerization of Business Software. One of the themes that we’ve been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software. People have been selling software over the web for awhile and indirect selling via screensharing and webinar, etc isn’t new.

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Why Your Business Isn’t Immune To Online Threats

YoungUpstarts

Social networking and email — 16.8%. According to a white paper by the International Data Corporation (IDC) , enterprises this year “will spend $491 billion because of malware associated with pirated software, which breaks out to $127 billion in dealing with security issues and $364 billion dealing with data breaches.”.

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Whether you’re building the next best home automation system, a revolutionary robotics product, or a new kind of software, the programming language you use to make it happen is the foundation of your work. Its syntax is very user friendly and the simplified coding makes for fast development. Applications built with Node.js

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. When I looked at the site, it had the term “Social Enterprise Software” written all over it. Social Media Software.

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Trello – Planning for business development, design, some strategy work. YouTube / Vimeo – Demos of our software or website.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. After all, when I’m in Facebook they know one hell of a lot more about me than Google does. Just ask MySpace.