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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

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As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA. His latest startup, Factual, is aimed at the data mashup and open data market.

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Will Facebook's IPO Unbottle Southern California's Pipeline?

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Facebook filed for its IPO Wednesday afternoon, saying that it is looking to raise up to $5 billion, in what is expected to be the biggest IPO since Google. The firm reported net income of $1 billion on revenues of $3.7 Will the filing of an IPO by Menlo Park-based Facebook unclock the pipeline of would-be Southern Calfornia IPOs?

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Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc

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com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. So we look at the front end, where social was new at the time, and what we were seeing was that social was becoming a wonderful search engine for jobs, through Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, where people were using those services to uncover opportunities.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. After all, when I’m in Facebook they know one hell of a lot more about me than Google does.

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Lean on Your Networks When Making Early Hires

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So with no real barometer for reliable talent and a fast-evaporating social network, where should early founders snag that elusive star talent. Tap Into Your Employees’ Networks. It may be the case that the engineer friend of yours at SpaceX won’t be able to join simply because she’s supporting her parents back home.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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One, is it makes it easy for businesses to embed that video on their own website, on blogs, and Facebook, and they can also link to that video on their Google Places page. To the extent that a business is not familiar with embedding, we also help them with that process, with claiming their Google Places page, and link that video.