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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. Thus, the key to properly timing social news exposure is to channel your inner Boy Scout and be prepared to make the most of such opportunities, irrespective of when or where they arise. Engagement.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

socalTECH

What really differentiates us from our competition is the data set we have. Our competition doesn't have that data. The other feature that sets us apparent, is our integration with social media. savvy, we have every social networking credential there is, and we've integrated those sites into the API.

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How Pinterest, Tumblr, HootSuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly and Mashable Rapidly And Repeatedly Hire Great People

InfoChachkie

Rapidly and repeatedly hiring star employees is a competitive advantage. The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012. No matter how rapidly a startup is growing, it can never afford to sacrifice employee quality as a means of achieving its hiring goals.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Because its just not that hyper-competitive, Im-hiring-all-your-staff, because-Im-Google environment. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. This is a whole new "generation 2.0"

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term. Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. Social media is ephemeral. Absofuckinglutely.

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