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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. Carroll will head up the firm's social media marketing. The firm is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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MomentFeed Names Tech Veteran Nick Hedges As CEO

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MomentFeed is venture backed by Level Equity, Signia Venture Partners, Draper Nexus and DFJ Frontier. Hedges also previously has served at Bain & Company, Accenture.com, and Ogilvy & Mather. READ MORE>>.

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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. momentfeed venture capital location analytics software retail marketing social media' in a Series A funding round. Ed Cluss of Signia Ventures joins the company''s board as part of the funding.

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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.” According to Draper, in addition to the above Rule Number One, there are many other questions that need to be answered before a CEO should recommend to the board that it is time for an IPO: Do you really need the money? False starts in this direction can be disastrous.

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Brickfish Snags Sales Exec From Google

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San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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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

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My latest interview with tech entrepreneur Andrew Draper helped me realize what an important part passion plays in the whole tech entrepreneurial process.

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