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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist).

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. Creative – we’re a place of writers, directors, producers, musicians, costume designers, make-up artists, graphic artists, 3D modelers. They designed the next gen UI for the film The Minority Report. My views are pretty well known. LA should be LA.”

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company. Irony, hey?).

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

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In 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world. Technorati and AdAge rank his site as one of the world’s Top 10 business blogs. iJustine) is an internet personality, actress, life-caster, vlogger, designer and most of all a popular YouTube content creator.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

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BuzzVoice makes your favorite news & blogs TALK - So you can listen to the stories you wish you had time to read - while you get things done! AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv In Minutes.

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