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Central Desktop Launches Its Own Take On Twitter

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The new microblogging feature puts Central Desktop in competition with another local startup, Yammer, which has created its own enterprise and business focused take on Twitter. Tags: twitter microblogging desktop central saas software yammer. READ MORE>>.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). The tone of the panel was set by David’s announcement that he was relocating to Silicon Valley (and dragging Geni & Yammer with him).

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep!

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8 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Lead With New Work Models

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Both are required to stay competitive. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social platforms such as Slack and Yammer. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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Entrepreneurs And Startups Drive Future Work Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

Both are required to stay competitive. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social media platforms such as Yammer. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

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Geni.com beget Yammer. What if keyword buyers had more choice than just buying expensive and competitive terms through Google?&#. It was originally called Twttr and didn’t initially get rave reviews from TechCrunch or GigaOm. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. I could go on and on.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Yammer, Salesforce Chatter. If you watch the show you’ll hear a great story about how this team got their start by hijacking data from stars on the red carpet at the Oscars. If you want the easy version you can read that story here ! Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Founded in 2007.