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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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Boulder CTO December Lunch with Tim Wolters

devver.wordpress.com

Tim is a serial entrepreneur currently working on using artificial intelligence and semantic analysis to extract knowledge from unstructured text found in social media. Collective Intellect’s customers use this analysis to inform and measure the effectiveness of their PR and marketing strategy.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense). So make sure you have a solid PR strategy. Understanding PR & Crisis Management. How to Work with PR Firms. Make sure good PR is underpinning your fund raising efforts.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

If our aim was to raise financing and employ these people directly, we’d have burnt through $5-7 million before launch.

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A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

Extra credit if you can explain the significance of both of these spots and why the HP PR machine won the rewrite of Valley history. Driving down the valley see Studio G in Redwood City, Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, the Plug & Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, Semantic Seed in San Jose. Get invited to an event at Blackbox.vc

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EnumSet and EnumMap

TechEmpower

Enum{Set,Map} don't have identical semantics to Hash{Set,Map} , so please don't make blind, blanket replacements in your existing code. They have a bit of a PR problem. The difference is that Enum{Set,Map} are specialized for enum types, not primitive types, and you can use them without depending on any third-party libraries.

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Twitter Link Roundup #279 – Wow! Great Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

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Semantic UI 2.0: The anatomy of a credit card form – buff.ly/1I7tBOS. How to Create WordPress Themes from HTML crowdspring.co/1e0QFTm. Copy & Paste & The Web | CSS-Tricks crowdspring.co/1e0QEPm. Design beautiful websites quicker crowdspring.co/1Ji5LMS. 1CHhBTX.