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Flinja Launches At DEMO

socalTECH

The firm showed off its service at the DEMO conference today, saying that its service is now available at both USC and UCLA, and will soon launch at Stanford. Flinja was co-founded by Victor Young, Rebecca Bahr, and Calvin Shen, and was part of the Summer 2012 class from Howard Marks' StartEngine effort.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. No matter how you end up on the front page of a major news site, getting there is just the first step.

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Use video whenever possible.

Berkonomics

But an increasing amount is now coming from web sites and YouTube videos created by companies looking for an edge in their marketing efforts. Dave’s Top Ten Trends workshop promo video Check this example by clicking on the link to the left – from my www.berkus.com site. Finally, content does not last forever.

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Insurance is always too expensive until needed.

Berkonomics

Email readers continue here.] Each night’s backup would be carefully marked and the rotated between offsite and on-site locations in a series of steps so that backups of a day, two days, a week and a month were all available both on site and off site. As was each subsequent backup, on-site and offsite.

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How to Talk to a Journalist When You Only Have 30 Seconds

Tech Zulu Event

In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. I first reviewed the “Alleys and Pavilions” company list provided by the TechCrunch site. Speaking of emailing, use the subject line to your advantage. 3 Be on time.

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The Power Of Mouth To Mouth Marketing

InfoChachkie

230 flyers resulted in 87 site visits (38% conversion rate). Twitter hashtag activity resulted in 4 demos. Big competitors like SAP and Microsoft immediately started spending large amounts on the company''s site. In Hubba''s case, the company was well rewarded for its boldness. Share and Enjoy.

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How ContractSafe Wants To Help You Get Your Legal Docs In Order, With Ken Button

socalTECH

At least once a week, and email would go around to the whole team, on who has the latest version of XYZ contract, or do we have an NDA with so and so. We were doing a demo last week, and the quote was�does this really do what you say it does? Why is this needed by companies? So how'd you end up starting the company?

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