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6 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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41 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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54 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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79 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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82 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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103 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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105 days ago by Kate

Image via CrunchBase This is a little delayed (I was reading an old TIME at the gym this morning), but I feel compelled to respond to Lev Grossman’s article from the 16 March issue, titled “ Quitting Twitter.” The subtitle of the piece is “ It’s the social network du jour. But what do we really get ...

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123 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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145 days ago by LK

This piece was brought to my attention by Mike Nolan, entrepreneur and web crawler Emeritus, and though I don’t agree with many of the particulars in it, the overview bears consideration. As I’m increasingly of the belief that this nation is being paralyzed by an all or nothing ideological mentality ...

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146 days ago

by Matt Blumberg, CEO, Robert Barclay, Senior Product Manager and J.D. Falk, Director of Product Strategy, Receiver Services Late last week, well-known investor and blogger Fred Wilson posted an article about updates to the Zemanta content recommendation tool. "Now," Fred wrote, "if you have the Zem ...

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