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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization. I think Twitter made a minor gaffe by announcing their Blackberry app and their acquisition of Atebits (Tweetie) before the Chirp conference. I believe this is important because it means that Ad.ly We will be direct and forthright.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. o CPM model gave him control over the information in the acquisition cycle so he focused on that. - Here’s a summary of our interview.

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How To Write An Effective Answer On Quora: Communications 101

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I write a bit more about how entrepreneurs can protect their ideas here: Spilling The Beans. As described in Buzz Kill , many college-educated professionals tend to write at a level that is uncomfortable for most people (including college graduates) to read. I was shocked that my pedestrian answer was so well received.

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Lynda.com Buys Compilr

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Carpinteria-based online video education site Lynda.com said today that it has acquired Compilr , a developer of a software coding and development environment which lets people learn how to write, compile, and test code from their web browser. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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The Silent Benefits of PR

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Of course you need a new angle to get a journalist interested because they don’t simply want to write what everybody else has covered. Customer Acquisition - I left customer acquisition for last intentionally. But neither do they want to be out on a limb as the first person predicting you will change the world. I promise.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market).

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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