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Miami: A hot spot for venture capitalists

David Teten

(from my guest column in the Miami Herald ). A few weeks ago, I had my first-ever opportunity to visit the Miami startup ecosystem. I was visiting as part of Terrapinn Private Equity World, a leading private equity conference for the Latin American technology community.

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Founder Interview: Salo Sterental, Co-Founder of SoStereo, Marketing with Music

The Startup Magazine

After college, I moved on to a post at BMG while Salo went to Miami to work with songwriters from Sony and Warner. We wanted to break down the walls of access to music, and technology was a perfect solution. The Zumba instructors loved it! And that was really the beginning of the SoStereo mission. ads, film/tv, branded content, etc.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

TaskRabbit is available in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. Gigs vary in categories like advertising, video and animation, graphics and design, programming and tech, music and audio, gifts, fun and bizarre, online marketing or writing and translation. An online marketplace offering 3.5

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Focus on Existing Assets to Generate Better Marketing Results

Duct Tape Marketing

A serial entrepreneur, Gudema’s previous venture was the internet marketing company Magic Hour Communications, which he grew to one of the top companies in the national Web SaaS market before selling the agency in 2009. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. We were high tech at the very start of the boom. Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic. Always developing.

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9 Things to Know About Influencing Purchasing Decisions

ConversionXL

Peer reviews matter. A 2010 study by The Nielsen Company confirmed what we already knew – people read reviews and decide by them. Start gathering reviews on your site. If you sell commodity products, you might want to look into pulling reviews from an external site to have more of them.

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Understanding Research Engine Optimization And Its Impact on SEO with Shama Hyder

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And we can get into that buts, I'm thinking about search engines now as a subset of greater discovery on the internet. John (02:17): Well, and what's interesting, I mean I think we've had this since the advent of say Google reviews or even social media.