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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

Since the recent recession, and at least partially sparked by it, I’m seeing a real resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. Google started as a place where you came to be taken via links to other people’s websites. I’m hoping that HTML5 + mobile will lead them down a more open path.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Social Enterprise: Hub LA. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award.

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At The Pool Pivots to Mobile Only & Ditches Common Interests to Proximity

Tech Zulu Event

Smart matching offline connections startup, At The Pool , has today launched a mobile app that is set to reinvent the way people connect and interact. Social networking isn’t social. Founded in 2011 by twenty-five year old Alex Capecelatro , At The Pool serves over 3.5 million people in over 100 countries.

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Entrepreneurs And Startups Drive Future Work Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. People who get paid by results have every incentive to think up smarter ways of getting work done. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). But let me start with some data. Calls are changing but not dying.

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Need A Job? Come To Idealab Job Fair!

Tech Zulu Event

That’s right folks Idealab is hosting a job fair at their offices for 10 of their startups companies. They are looking for coders, roboticist, marketing managers, and community managers, to fill the areas of their Green Tech, Social Media, Big Data, and Enterprise companies. When: Wednesday, October 12, 2011.

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