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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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Americas new business model: Sharing. What distinguishes the latest generation of start-ups is a confluence of new technologies and more-efficient business models that leave much of the logistical heavy-lifting to peers who share. Julianna Iran, a tax consultant from Pasadena, Calif., Game Hunters. Marc Saltzman.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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Hashtags were organically created by the Twitter community the way that RT (retweets) were and OH (over heard) was and #FF (follow Friday), etc. We have no clue where the community will help take Twitter next. That summit would have been so foggy from day one you couldn’t have predicted it. They are at basecamp. That includes me.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. So it fostered a community of “try anything you want” developers and many people did just that. Twitter now has the human resources to deal with its developer community and to outreach to VCs who would back them.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

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We believe in collaborating with industry leaders, working with innovative companies and directly engaging with our community and audience to ensure we are building out valuable resources they can use daily to improve health & safety within their respective companies. What is your BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) for your business?