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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. This probably hurt Zynga’s profitability but also helped them fend off less well-capitalized rivals. You could just outspend.

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Salesforce Acquires Radian6: How to Earn $2,850/hour

Growthink Blog

CRM giant Salesforce.com just acquired Radian6, a social media monitoring platform, for $326 million. Even though Chris and Chris only owned a small percentage of Radian6 after raising rounds of venture capital, they will still walk away with $14 million each according to CBC News. So let's do the math.

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My Big Plans For 2011 (Plus What You Need To Focus On Next Year)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

This will be the final blog post I publish on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com in 2010. My first one, Blog Mastermind came out in 2007. Like most of my articles that I’ve written in the past six years, this one is being constructed in a coffee shop in downtown Brisbane Australia as I sip a lemon-lychee iced tea.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. So it makes sense that we all use the same social media network and a single search engine that learns and gets better based on every search that is entered into it.