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Do Entrepreneurs Need College?

Duct Tape Marketing

Do Entrepreneurs Need College? Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman founded the social bookmarking site reddit shortly after graduating from the University of Virginia. College for the entrepreneur has always been more about community and connections and learning how to try stuff out.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

Engage your audience with social media. Social media is more than the “Big 4” of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter. It’s sharing features built into your web site content like social bookmarking, emailing, or auto posting and interactive features like comments and voting. Do them all.

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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Engage your audience with social media. Social media is more than the “Big 4” of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter. It’s sharing features built into your web site content, like social bookmarking, emailing, or auto posting and interactive features like comments and voting. Do them all.

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Copywrong Again: Founding the Next Pinterest or Napster?

Gust

There is nothing new per se about a user-generated content site on which users select and post items of interest from around the Internet; “ social bookmarking ” and recommendation tools have been around for years, and of course sites such as Facebook and MySpace allow users to post images and links by the millions.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

The delicious bookmarking was open so that anybody could see what you had bookmarked and commonly bookmarked things could rise to the top. That’s why it was called “social bookmarking.&#. And because Delicious was bought by Yahoo! (a And how I met Tristan Walker as I chronicled in this post.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. 2) Market . I never used the word qualified.’.

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A Step-By-Step Guide On How To Build A Profitable Niche Content Website

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Because many new entrepreneurs want to jump into the game quickly, often wanting to sell what they think is the best thing on earth. Social Bookmarking This step is optional, but if executed can quickly build a ton more back links to your website, therefore further solidifying your place in search indexes.

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