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Brickfish Bolsters Social Media Efforts

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San Diego-based Brickfish, an online advertising network focused on social media, announced this monring that it has hired Becky Carroll as the firm's Director of Social Media. The firm said that Carroll joins the company from Petra Consulting Group, where she was President and Founder.

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MomentFeed Names Tech Veteran Nick Hedges As CEO

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Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops software that helps national brands keep information on their stores up to date across mapping and mobile services, has named Nick Hedges as CEO of the company, MomentFeed said this morning. Hedges also previously has served at Bain & Company, Accenture.com, and Ogilvy & Mather.

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MomentFeed Raises $5.5M

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The funding was led by Signia Venture Partners, along with Draper Nexus, DFJ Frontier, Double M Partners, and Daher Capital. Ed Cluss of Signia Ventures joins the company''s board as part of the funding. momentfeed venture capital location analytics software retail marketing social media' in a Series A funding round.

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2011 May be the Year of the IPO for Social Media

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Draper III, in his new book titled “ The Startup Game.” He says that you should never consider a public offering unless you are confident that the company will deliver increasing profits and revenue after the offering, so that the public buyer can anticipate a gain. Then there is the formidable process of taking the company public.

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Brickfish Wins Nike Account

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San Diego-based Brickfish , a provider of social media marketing and advertising services, said Tuesday that Nike is using the firm as part of a user-generated photo contest. Brickfish runs social media campaigns and social media advertising for companies, and is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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Falling Out of Love with Your Startup

Tech Zulu Event

If you are an avid reader of material about becoming a successful you or about the keys to building a successful company, then you have surely read something about the importance of passion.

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500 Startups Presents Bitcoinference

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The transaction is considered the largest public acquisition in Bitcoin history with both companies exhibiting impressive growth numbers since their respective beginnings. What is it Like to Raise Money for Bitcoin Companies? Adam Draper – Of Boost VC, an SF Incubator/Accelerator. ”(Actual words: Bull S**t).

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