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Earbuds lets audiences stream the playlists of athletes, entertainers and each other

TechCrunch LA

Earbuds , a new startup from Austin founded by former Detroit Lions lineman Jason Fox, wants to bring the power of social media to your eardrums. Fox said at every press conference one or two questions would be about what songs teammates played before games. Social music app Playlist lets you listen to music with others in real time.

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Can you create a great customer case study?

Berkonomics

We are constantly bombarded by ads in multiple types of media, to the extent that we most often tune them out unless particularly entertaining from the first moment (eight seconds.). Using new tools in a social age. We have grown more than a bit weary of most advertising, no matter in what form. Entering the “age of recommendation.”.

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A good case study is worth many paid ads.

Berkonomics

We are constantly bombarded by ads in multiple types of media, to the extent that we most often tune them out unless particularly entertaining from the first moment. Over the years, advertising money is being moved from display ads in magazines and newspapers to social network sites where people with eyeballs have migrated.

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MySpace, WSJ Look To Send Users To Davos

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based social networking web site said late Thursday that it has kicked off a competition to send a MySpace user to the Davos World Economic Forum. Tags: economic social video journal content forum davos street myspace networking world wall. READ MORE>>.

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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

Both Sides of the Table

So resume + directionally-correct social graph = goldmine for recruiting, networking and marketing. It doesn’t strike me as a “social network&# in the way we’ve come to define them. But its focus on solving a real-world problem makes it uniquely valuable to most other social graphs.

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Intro to the LA Startup Scene

Tech Zulu Event

Next up was Avesta Rasouli from Coloft , a coworking space that is considered to be the hub of LA Tech, focused on the elements that make for a great startup community; capital, talent and social networks. Michael Carney , a tech reporter for Pandodaily , taught how to craft a compelling press release.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

Both Sides of the Table

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I know this category has gotten a lot of press. We immediately decided we wanted to work with them and started a full-court press to invest.

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