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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. Vimagino.com.

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Which startups should jump into the ‘Shark Tank’?

The Next Web

Growing up in Canada, then Massachusetts, their dad taught the sisters how to engrave plastic, recycle metal and create art using global stamps and coins. This story continues at The Next Web. As child refugees from Lebanon, Donna and Rosy Khalife knew how to get creative. In less than two years, Surprise Ride has grown from.

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Startup Stories: Zagster’s mission to make bike sharing simple

The Next Web

Startup Stories is a series of short documentaries about TechStars companies, hosted exclusively by The Next Web. This time, we’re taking a look at bike sharing startup Zagster.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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Next week, we will delve once again into e-commerce businesses and explore how niche e-commerce is transitioning into Web 3.0. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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To greet renters and hand over the keys, Hertz sometimes hires a stand-in through TaskRabbit, a Web-based company that matches time-deprived people in need of temporary assistants with freelance errand runners who have passed criminal background checks and are looking for extra income. Zimride users also sign up via Facebook. "We

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Book: One Base at a Time

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My oldest daughter was studying psychology and interning at the newly formed Home Base Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and I thought the article might give me some insight into what she was learning. Mellor rabbit hole on the web. A tragedy of his story is that it took him many years before realizing he had PTSD.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

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This week, I published an article called The Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends where I have discussed this at length. I am pretty convinced that the Web will get increasingly more verticalized where appropriate and localized, and niche businesses will do very, very well. This is my core assumption on Web 3.0. Photo by yirsh.

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