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Social Networking and Business Value

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Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). David Schwartz, Vice President, Corporate Development of Yammer David Schwartz is the Vice President, Corporate Development, at Yammer Inc., in Computer Science.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Because I am true to the hiring practices I preach, I wanted a strong exec who would “ punch above their weightclass ” by taking a job they hadn’t yet done but would hugely aspire to and thus work harder to out perform. RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company.

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How Kaleo Is Tackling Enterprise Knowledge Sharing

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He's now hard at work at a new company, Kaleo, which is tackling the enterprise, knowledge sharing market�and already has an impressive list of Fortune 500 customers. This was her pain point, back in our early days in 2011, and at that time, social was starting to become big. There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

Both Sides of the Table

So yes, I want to hire somebody with really high IQ and EQ but not somebody who is more knowledgeable at your specific skill set than you are. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? They fund people with no customers.

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