134 days ago by socialmediaBiz

Let's say you want to track how something you are working on is doing. You can look at it's web traffic on comScore, Compete, Quantcast, Alexa, etc. You can check out how it is doing on Google Trends. But if you want to do something a bit more sophisticated, you might want to try Trendrr. Trendrr is ...

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169 days ago by socialmediaBiz

Last week Seth Goldstein's company Social Media put on a social media bootcamp for marketers and he asked John Borthwick and I to start the day off with a panel discussion around social media. During that discussion, we got to talking about what's next in social media. I suggested that the "next lay ...

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182 days ago by Matt Eventoff

There are two communication “killer apps” that I witness plague startups with frightening frequency. These danger zones are lethal to a startup, especially one seeking funding. If you are pursuing venture capital funding, read this prior to presenting. You will be glad that you did. Killer App # 1 – ...

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207 days ago by Robert Beal

" A VC" by Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures is one of my favorite blogs. He covers interesting topics both inside and outside the vc space. You can tell Fred is a super bright guy who still does his homework (in addition to relying on his experience), which I appreciate. Recently, Fred spoke to ...

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210 days ago by Daniel

By A VC We did a call today with our investors and one of the questions was about how the macroeconomic environment is impacting our portfolio companies. We explained that for most of our companies, there has not been much of an impact, but we are seeing several companies bring down aggressive numbe ...

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231 days ago by socialmediaBiz

When Brad and I were raising our first fund in 2004, we'd plan to get to our pitch meeting an hour or so ahead of time and then go find a Starbucks for coffee and internet. We never even thought to try anything else. We just used the Starbucks store locator app and got bad cofee and better wifi. But ...

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251 days ago by Corey

Thomas Friedman in his recent op-ed in the New York Times, Start Up the Risk-Takers writes that Obama by giving another $20 billion bailout to General Motors and Chrysler is bailing out the losers and that GM has become a giant wealth destruction machine. He believes a better approach to creating jo ...

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