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Report: Demand Media Targets Critical Blog

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online content publishing empire run by Richard Rosenblatt, is targeting a blog which has been posting internal documents and criticism of the company. According to a report from Forbes, the firm has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Demand Studio Sucks , alleging copyright infringement.

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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

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6 or 7 years ago when TechCrunch was at its peak market share (they are still strong but many more tech blogs have also popped up) there was a term for getting covered there called “the TechCrunch bounce.” that they probably read the main tech blogs. The start of this series was, Should Your Startup Announce Funding ?

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Startup Metrics

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Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Don’t overcomplicate things with reporting tools. Then use what you’ve learned in this blog post to decide if the numbers validate your business model, or if you need to rethink your approach. Please write us at blog@techempower.com !

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Framework Benchmarks Round 20

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@sebastienros reports that Stephen Toub posted an excellent blog containing detail on all the performance improvements in.NET 5. sagenschneider reports that OfficeFloor's new use of asynchronous programming in its inversion of coupling control has enabled using reactive libraries such as R2DBC.

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BUZZMEDIA Buys Four Punk Rock Blogs

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Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the growing online music publisher, reported this morning that it has acquired four punk rock sites, which it will use to create a new punk music group called AbsoluteVoices. BUZZMEDIA said it acquired Under The Gun Review, Alter The Press!, Financial terms of the buys were not announced.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

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The press who trusted me enough to report on our successes. Despite the fact that only the Lotto winners get reported. ” Truthfully, that’s one of the things that kept me going. I didn’t want to disappoint. I didn’t want to disappoint my parents. My employees. I didn’t want to disappoint my customers.

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