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How Facebook Videos Can Boost Your Social Media Campaign

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Here at Sparkhouse in southern, California, we aren’t aware of a decrease in literacy (though the replacement of emoticons for words might say otherwise), but perhaps it tickles a certain part of the brain that enjoys the easiness of visual stimulation over reading all those words on that tiny screen. Social media is popular.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. I’m ok with announcing straight away or waiting until you have product or team confidence to release the news.

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Reflections on 2016: Cody Simms, Techstars

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What was the biggest news from you or your firm this year? With the advent of social media, open publishing platforms, and instantaneous communication, the world is flatter and more interconnected than anyone can truly grasp, and the next great wave of innovations can and will come from anywhere.

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#ATTMobileReview of the HTC One at Universal Studios

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What a perfect opportunity for AT&T to invite an intimate group of techies to spend some time checking out the new HTC One at Universal Studios. Lynn Walford of Wireless and Mobile News shows it off for us here. inch full HD (1080p) screen and HTC Sense innovations. Keep your eyes on the prize!

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On-Demand Startups Are Completely Changing the Industry

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They played music, allowed us to text, and the very pioneering apps tracked our daily step count and sent us news alerts. That all changed with social media , and now everyone is glued to their phone’s screen. It was not long ago that the apps on our smartphones were, by today’s standards, basic.

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Interview with Taylor Peck and Nick Boutelier, iSideWith

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It's an election year in the United States, and the screens and airwaves are full of provocative sound bites, pundits, scandals, and the latest political gossip of the day. Nick is always tweaking the site to make it easier, more viral, and social. However, do you really know which political candidate you most agree with on the issues?

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. Tech news keeps proclaiming “phone calls are dead,” which is useful except that the data suggests the exact opposite. Calls are changing but not dying.

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