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Click.to – Clicking Your Way Around Your Desktop And The Internet

YoungUpstarts

Earlier we featured Markerly , an online highlighting tool that lets us select and socially bookmarking a particular chunk of text , and immediately sharing it across your social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook. is currently self-financed. Selecting a chunk of text, and opting Twitter icon from the Click.to

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

I use this social bookmarking tool to keep a record of useful websites. I can only do so much unpaid work for the social media companies. I have a tiny audience compared with the B2C influencers, but my audience are overwhelming businesspeople in tech and finance. This is hosted by NFX.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us Mr. Fralic earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St. through the Yahoo! acquisition. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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

David Teten

I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. I have also configured IFTTT to share on Twitter anything new I post on Diigo. .

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What Drives You to Bring in More Traffic?

Up and Running

Bookmarks, PPC and More. Businesses are also advised to use social bookmarks with their most valuable web content, which should open doors to having countless visitors driven to the site. Getting those first link-backs can be a tad challenging, but be creative and put the time in to witness the likely benefits.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

We were doing Social bookmarking around health and wellness products. They never worked with the startup who had needed to raise multiple rounds of financing. For example, on our first company, our idea was not to do the social bookmarking. Our business model was Pinterest. Pinterest didn’t exist at the time.

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

The comments here and on a few social bookmarking sites mentioned that you could quit your day job if you wanted to, and that you could live on $2500/month just fine in many cities in the world (although in my hypothetical situation I was speaking about a developer based in the hypothetical U.S.). .] #44 44 Steve P on 01.14.09