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Mafia Sourcing – How Insider’s Game User Generated News

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I had previously believed that the world of user-generated news sites were run on a open, crowd-sourced model. You submitted news to a website like Digg and if it was interesting content with a great headline and newsworthy text it would get driven up to the masses. but I wanted to be sure I wasn’t writing just for my mom.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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I reached out to Michael after their surprising day at the top of Hacker News during early September. The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. According to Michael, the Hacker News exposure was completely unplanned.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

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Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. Should I Bundle it With More Juicy News? When you file, you must be prepared.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. and has recently come back down to 122% (said David Brooks on The PBS News Hour).

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (2/10) – Street Smarts

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This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. Thinking out loud – I’m sure that’s important for entrepreneurs as well. If you haven’t spent time over there you should.

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How to use PR Firms at Startups

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One of the most frequent questions entrepreneurs ask about when they raise a little bit of money or are getting close to launching their first product is whether they should hire a PR firm. I notice, for example, that some CEO’s on Twitter never do anything but parrot their companies news. In a startup this is a mistake.

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Julie Schoenfeld On Perfect Market's New Funding

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What that did, is it helped us to expand the service to help publishers do the following: identify what content to write, how to distribute that content to various mediums, and how to monetize that content. We make sure that content is available, and linked to current news stores. Right now, news organizations write off the news cycle.

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