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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Use internal collaboration platforms, then extend to online customers through your website, blogs, and social media. You need to start now to understand the trends and specifics of the information tidal wave that is building up in front of us. Crowdsource: putting your audience to work beyond customers.

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Why You Don’t Want to Give Financial Information to All of Your Investors

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I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. There’s another issue I can add to your list of things to be aware of – information rights. You betcha.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

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Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. I read all sorts of blogs that I never even knew existed. Consumption, consumption, consumption.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 20

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@sebastienros reports that Stephen Toub posted an excellent blog containing detail on all the performance improvements in.NET 5. More information can be found in OfficeFloor's blog post about round 20. Please reach out if you are a contributor and didn't yet get a chance to share your updates.

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8 Ways That Blogging Will Kickstart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Develop an efficient and effective writing style.

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Canon Communications Buys Pharmaceuticals Blog Pharmalot

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Los Angeles-based Canon Communications , a publisher and trade show operator serving the pharmaceutical industry, said Monday that it has acquired Pharmalot , a blog focused on news and information in the pharmaceutical industry. Tags: pharmaceutical lifescience blog publisher merger acquisition.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.