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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? Leveraging network effects. Another way to build your network is to increase the value of the platform by opening it up for others to build on. What’s the hottest trend in business right now?

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. Global Demand. A global market enables the company to sell vastly more copies of its software without increasing its production costs.

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

Aziz: RIM has over 300,000 registered developers globally. Within Asia, Southeast Asia has one of the largest number of BlackBerry developers who are actively creating content and applications for the region as well as the rest of the world. Can you elaborate? How is RIM actively involved in the developer ecosystem in Asia?

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6 Motivations That Lead To Key Market Transformations

Startup Professionals Musings

As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e-commerce. Real innovation in the business world is still rare.

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[White Paper] How To Build An Online Network of Influencers

YoungUpstarts

Humans are social by nature. We’ve been interacting with each other using a set of shared values and expectations since the dawn of civilization, and boiled down to its essence, an online social network is just another medium to advance this instinctual need in people to connect and engage with others of their ilk.

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

As we know, this space is a very competitive one; Fetch Plus differentiates itself from the rest by targeting companies with holdings, focusing on developing tools necessary for these companies’ holdings to efficiently and effectively build and scale their social media footprint through different networks for engaging fans.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). The rest, as they say, is history. It was a $4.7M Author howerl. link] bussgang.