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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 portfolios. Do so at your peril.

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Demand Media's Rosenblatt On IPO, Exits

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Richard Rosenblatt , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Demand Media said today at the Twiistup conference in Los Angeles, that he sees an IPO as a possible opportunity for the firm. Rosenblatt had suggested earlier this year at the Web 2.0 conference the firm was looking at exit optioins.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Enjoyed this post? Putting customers first. It's a great talk.

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Kabam Launches The Godfather: Five Families Exclusive to Google+

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The company has indicated that their decision to launch TGFF exclusively on the G+ platform was for a number of reasons including: Their continuing success with other games on the platform, the readiness of the G+ team, and the compelling marketing and promotional package Google offered to Kabam.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. is Sean Rad.

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Interview with Jerome Chang, BlankSpaces

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You can't take a conference call or a client call at a cafe, and it's all very noisy and distracting. We have Sometrics, which is kind of a search technology for Web 2.0, The economy has been hitting the commercial real estate market recently, how does that affect your business? They came here, and it worked.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Hire Entrepreneurs!

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Last week I attended the ad:Tech conference in my hometown, Chicago. They range from technology companies to marketing companies to apparel companies to real estate investments and non-profits.