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Yammer Gets Top Prize At Tech Conference

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Yammer, a Twitter-like spinout out of high profile Los Angeles genealogy firm Geni.com, has scored the top prize at the TechCrunch50 awards in San Francisco. Yammer offers instant messaging focused on internal corporate communications, and is the result of work by engineers at Geni. Geni is the online, Web 2.0-style

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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Out is the “cocktail only&# Twiistup and in is the new format of a conference that should take its rightful place on the national technology calendar. Twiistup 6 featured 12 showoff companies as the opening act of a 2-day conference. ExpenseBay Wins Showoff. Twiistup 6 has come to an end.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. He helped develop an airline tracking system for Homeland Security and is an organizer of the Agile Open SoCal conference. million Raised. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

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A great opportunity for more visible networking. A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. Anything that's been particularly successful?

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To the Moon!

Eric Greenspan

Our Tech News radio show on both CBS and ABC radio networks are going great. Tweetdeck and Yammer are always running in the background. The next day was the 140 Conference at the Kodak Theater. It’s a fun company, but customer acquisition is the biggest challenge we face. Today I spent learning as I usually do.

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Why You Shouldn’t Launch Your Startup at a Major Tech Event

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That means a slew of companies will be preparing to launch their new products or announcing their companies at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. So this post is about how to best craft a strategy to launch at SXSW but you could substitute most major conferences like CES if you want. It’s February now. Exec Summary.

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6 Tips for Building Relationships with Journalists

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If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage. So I’ve always advised people that if they do launch at a big show, the most important public relations work they do is after the conference. Many other great companies are not. - Don’t be afraid to be transparent.

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