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Insights and Opinions: Social at Scale

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What does the landscape of social media marketing look like, in the wake of Salesforce.com's acquisition of Buddy Media? In the past month alone, some of the worlds largest enterprise technology companies have acquired social media marketing start-ups accumulating a total spending of close to $2.2 billion dollars. Continued.).

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Insights: Attracting Tech Talent to SoCal: It's Not as Hard as You Think

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We''re seeing more and more public offerings; exciting activity in the music, media and entertainment space; an expanding pool of tech talent; and, more recently, several high caliber acquisitions and financing rounds, all of which will really help the whole ecosystem grow. Here''s how to get them in the door: Start with a comparable salary.

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Past Is Prologue As New Industries Emerge: It Ain’t Gonna Be Different

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free weekly Infochachkie articles! During the early 1980’s, the popular press discovered baseball card collecting and began to publish articles touting sports memorabilia as a great “investment”. All other collectors were out of luck. What was behind the mystery of the missing Lajoie card? Capital Cards. But Our Hobby Is Different….

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The First socalTECH 50: Where Are They Now?

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First off, on our original article, we identified a number of people in the industry we specifically said did not qualify for the list -- because they had successfully exited companies in the past and who are proven entrepreneurs. award acquisition merger exit enterepeneur socaltech50' So then, how did our actual list do?

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Insights and Opinions: Waiting for Google

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In the past week we've seen Google announce a multi-billion dollar acquisition of Motorola Mobility; if you had their cash you'd be elephant hunting, too. Read the rest of Frank's article, Waiting for Google. Like large VC funds, they have too much money to be looking at sub-100 million dollar deals, let alone sub-20.

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Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares

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He had pitched me in the past and I told him that for a variety of reasons his company was too early stage for me but that I would happily keep track of their progress. A good friend of mine was features on the front cover of the LA Times business section with a glowing article. When I read an article about you I’m influenced.

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Building a Successful Startup Team

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free weekly Infochachkie articles! Click Here to see Full Article. _. In this video John Greathouse does a small Q&A about building what traits/roles are needed to create a strong start-up team. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. Q&A: Want to learn more on this subject? from the Wharton School.

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