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Unique Way To Name Your Company: Run A Poll

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One of the companies out of San Diego's EvoNexus incubator sent out an email Friday via EvoNexus, saying that it's looking for a new name to offer up a service to provide customer care over social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The company--Face It Corp.,

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Web 1.0 Entrepreneurs: we are roadkill unless we learn to run as fast as today’s founders.

Steve Reich

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. They did it entirely through social networking. One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed. If you can’t keep up, you are dead.

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Shared housing startups are taking off

TechCrunch LA

Mostly, the aim seems to be providing something affordable for working professionals willing to accept a smaller private living space in exchange for a choice location, easy move-in and a ready-made social network. At Starcity, residents pay $2,000 to $2,300 a month, all expenses included, depending on length of stay.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. This private coaches network was the topic of a business plan we wrote for an entrepreneurial contest. What''s the idea behind FieldLevel? It''s exclusive only to verified coaches.

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Insteegram: Tech Meets Fashion | Interview with Founder Ed Park

Tech Zulu Event

You simply sign in with your Instagram account, choose your favorite photo, and get your custom made t-shirt shipped directly to you. They believe that having your personal photo on your custom made t-shirt connects you to people instantly on a much deeper level. Park was able to connect to customers on a personal level.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Interview with Aaron Hirschorn, DogVacay.com

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the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. It's really about providing a customized approach, and the best experience for both the dog and dog owners. What makes us different from a Craiglist with a checkout button, is we also offer protection to customers. We spoke to Aaron about the company.