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Making Social Media Work For SMEs

YoungUpstarts

Small businesses rarely have the time or resources to invest in outsourced customer service support, and some are finding it more efficient to serve customers via social media platforms: one LinkedIn study from 2014 revealed that 81 percent of North American SMEs use social media [5]. Build a following.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively.

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The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

If you enjoy the coffeehouse vibe, but hate the coffeehouse distractions, Coffee & Power in San Francisco is a great place to be a co-worker. Located in both San Francisco and San Jose (and soon to be Las Vegas), Citizen Space bills itself as simply, “a nicer place to work.” Coffee & Power. Citizen Space.

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Your Guide to the Complete Lean Startup Conference Program

Startup Lessons Learned

At your request, we’ve brought in speakers from all kinds of organizations --including young companies, Fortune 500s, mission-driven orgs, and government, and they create websites, apps, games, hardware, consumer goods, social services, media products and more. If you’ve scanned the list of speakers before, take a second look.

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A Place To Call Your Own: Building Your Brand’s Vertical Social Network

YoungUpstarts

Social networks have gained genuine power as a marketing tool for businesses looking to increase their reach, traffic and leads. But there’s no guarantee that the places where most social networking happens now will be the same places hosting it in the future. Use social media technology to your brand’s advantage.

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Color's Epic Collapse: Why Everybody Is Loving It

ReadWriteStart

That is the real-life story of Color , a once-hot San Francisco startup that raised $41 million in funding before even releasing a product. The concept seemed interesting and shades of Color’s original idea have cropped up in other San Francisco startups, including Highlight. You don't have to imagine it.

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5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics

mashable.com

5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics. Ann blogs on search and social media tools. Social media analytics and tracking can be very time-consuming and expensive. You’ll find quite a few smart social media monitoring tools, but what if you can’t afford them?