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7 Lessons On How Startups Use Social Media To Succeed

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are a business owner today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Freeletics raises $45M for its AI-powered mobile fitness coach

TechCrunch LA

The $45 million Series A was co-led by FitLab, Causeway Media Partners and JAZZ Venture Partners, with participation from Courtside Ventures, Elysian Park Ventures and ward.ventures. As you might expect from the name, Freeletics operates its mobile fitness coaching app on a freemium model, with tiered pricing beginning at $11.99

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RRKidz Gets Funding, Plans Children's Mobile Book Service

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Los Angeles-based RRKidz , a new online startup focused on offering children's books via subscription, and headlined by Reading Rainbow and former Star Trek star LeVar Burton, said it has scored a round of funding today. RRkids CEO is Asra Rasheed, formerly of Gottaplay and Thumb Media Group. Size of the funding was not announced.

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10 Keys To Results With Social-Local-Mobile Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and a while back added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. Mobile and global are driving all of these in innovative new ways to grow your business.

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Your Little Black Book | Mobile App

Tech Zulu Event

I mean it’s tough to carry a black leather book in todays “fashionable” tight jeans. Meet today’s “little black book,” an updated, digital book that keeps track of one’s most private affairs. I basically built the Little Black Book for myself.”

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Fighting Back Against Mobile Phones in the Bedroom

Both Sides of the Table

Technology is of course a dual-edge sword but the media discussions of how it affects human interactions all too often focuses on the downsides. Numerous articles point out the “ sitting is the new smoking ” and if so then “mobile phones are the new crack.” more than books face me. book face-to-faces.

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7 Lessons For Mobile App Developers To Beat The Odds

Startup Professionals Musings

I also recommend the app development strategies outlined in the classic book, “ Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World ,” by Robert Tercek, who has lived on the digital edge for many years. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service. Be aggressive and alert.

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