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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

We watch our news and entertainment anywhere we want to on any kind of device we choose. We recruit and hire using LinkedIn or other resources, replacing job fairs, campus events and paper resumes. And we carry access to our entertainment with us, bypassing the need to be entertained by others while away from home.

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Balance Your Marketing Spending Between Free and Fee

Startup Professionals Musings

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media.

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Why an Atlanta-based Black influencer collective swapped their collab house for a studio

TechCrunch LA

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes. Image Credits: Robiiiworld (Brandy Merriweather via BStarPR).

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Fifty years of the internet

TechCrunch LA

The ARPANET, as it was called back then, was designed by government, industry and academia so scientists and academics could access each other’s computing resources and trade large research files, saving time, money and travel costs. On the one hand, it has led to valuable services of great value.

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6 Suggestions For How To Begin Your Startup Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ). There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups.

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Interview with Jeremy Gocke, Fliptu

socalTECH

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

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Los Angeles-based Frame launches mental health gateway for a pandemic-stricken generation

TechCrunch LA

Years later, after Grazer graduated from Columbia and embarked on a career as a therapist, and Bird, a longtime proponent of therapy since her teens, had moved on to a job at the LA-based social media giant, Snap, the two reunited.