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Rare event in Palo Alto today: fireside chat with Lifograph and Microsoft

The Startup Magazine

Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. AGENDA: 5:45pm – 6:30pm – Networking reception. 7:45pm – 8:15pm – General networking. The Wiki of People is a free people search engine with 500K profiles and 1.2M Dubbed “Ms.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

For businesses, these are now prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Wikis are used to create collaborative websites on a given subject, maintain corporate intranets, and build simple data bases. Facebook alone has 800 million active members. Do you have a business presence there?

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Social networks. They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Wikis are used to create collaborative websites on a given subject, maintain corporate intranets, and build simple data bases. You are now reading one of 50 million out there already.

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28 Entrepreneur Share Their Goals for 2021

Hearpreneur

But we think there’s a deep vein of opportunities to help our existing customers and many more people manage and expand their professional network. 13- Perfect my presentation skills and networking. This new remote working environment requires lots of public speaking, presentations, and general networking.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners. There are already more than 2000 hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on the Hackerspace Wiki. New products emerge, as diverse as networked-art installations, Internet-of-Things innovations, and many other hybrid software-hardware solutions.

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Internet Growth Means Big Changes For How Businesses Connect

YoungUpstarts

These addresses appear as string of numbers (for example: “192.149.0.4”) in computer and network configuration files. Internet experts are encouraging all other businesses, no matter how big or small, to upgraded their networks to support IPv6. billion of them. IPv6 is the biggest upgrade in the 40-year history of the Internet.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

She began the CIA’s Lessons Learned program and led the Agency’s first effort to address the challenges posed by social networks, digital ubiquity, and the emerging culture of collaboration. In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy.

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