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Moviepilot Goes Native, Bets On LA, US Market

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Moviepilot , the online film review and publishing site led by Tobias Bauckhage, has sold off its German website, moviepilot.de , to French publisher Webedia. Moviepilot''s web site focuses on film recommendations, film discovery, and the company also helps studios with social media campaigns. READ MORE>>.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

In a world where it’s easier to judge the immediate value of a business, I know that metrics like “time on site&# matter. I’m starting to spend my time evaluating companies that can help brands simultaneously build within the fortress but also maintain social value in the open web. That’s what AOL was.

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Why Would a Business Avoid any Internet Presence?

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I am amazed to see US Census Bureau data from 2012 that at least 50%, maybe up to 75%, of small businesses still have no presence at all. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. It’s not too late to start. Marty Zwilling.

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An Entrepreneur Platform To Put You Above the Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. The days when you could launch your business with a new web site, and the phone would begin to ring, are long gone. Make your customers your platform.

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Big Data is Getting Bigger as a Startup Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data.

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Interview with Satish Varma, Clorder

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We are an online ordering platform, that helps restaurants enhance their web presence and the profitability of their brand. We thought we found a gap in the market where we could fit in, so we looked at a bunch of the services which were existing in the market, and we designed our own product offering, back in 2012. What is Clorder?