Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

E-commerce retailers know all this and they have a massive advantage because of it – their advantage isn’t just in cost infrastructure it’s in rich data and information. Australia has the highest usage and penetration of social media at an average of 7 hours a month. A live stock exchange of media buying. They haven’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

As this astute journalist pointed out, DataSift “ likely would have cost a lot more to acquire.” It isn’t simply that when a leader in the US calls off negotiations with Iran he puts it on Twitter or when a leader from Iran rebuffs that Tweet publicly that a signal is created but it is the unseen. Chris Smart.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 6, 2018

The Challenge of Social Media. Today, that emerging communications medium is social media. Social media connects us, and that has both positive and negative consequences. Our polarized environment encourages — and amplifies — partisan conflicts, and this inhibits social progress.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

The topic of social media came up and one dial-in caller lamented the fact that all Silicon Valley was producing was silly social media companies. But as I pointed out on the show, look deeper at the impact of social media as a tool to organize crowds, hold public debates and spread information in a decentralized way.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2013

And how much do they cost? Relentless Social Media. Then there’s the relentless deluge of social media. “ A Bitter Veil “, another stand-alone thriller, is set in revolutionary Iran during the late ’70s and was released in 2012. The question is how many of those books are read. Enough said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher." So first of all, what a testament to social media and its power to reach- Tomas Pueyo : Huge. It's focused on how to learn as fast as possible with as little cost as possible. Just look at your measures in terms of cost-benefit.

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