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Social Media Trend Spotting Turns $20,000 into over $2 million

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A little bit about the author Chris Camillo…When the stock market was at it’s worst and our economy was failing us from 2007-2010 his private self-managed portfolio outperformed the big fancy dogs of Wall Street. Cheers to discovering a real return on using social media. He teaches how to take the risk out of being risky.

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Demand Media: $56.3M for Pluck, $5.0M For The Daily Plate

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The price of two of Demand Media's acquisitions, Pluck , and The Daily Plate , have both been made public with the firm's IPO filing Friday evening. for Pluck, a developer of social media tools, and paid $5.0M Tags: demand media pluck daily plate merger acquisition exit. According to the S-1, Demand paid $56.3M

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Interview with Rob Reed, MomentFeed

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Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, That's really what Social Media 2.0

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism.

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Interview with Jon Waterman, Founder and CEO of Ad.net

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The company was founded in 2001, as Findology Interactive Media. I sold that business in late 2007, right before the debt crisis, and sold it to a public company in Australia. Our core competency was in the search space.

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8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? Good stuff.

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Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital

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His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.