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7 Technology Entrepreneur Examples You Should Emulate

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some recognizable entrepreneurial examples I like, just from the technology space: Driven by an epic ambition. Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook as a virtual social network built on a lifetime of friendships, while offering advertisers a powerful and targeted marketing tool. Persuasive and empowering.

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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks

Both Sides of the Table

They “don’t care what people ate for lunch.&# They’re fine on their existing social networks, which these days mostly means they’re happy with Facebook. Traditional social networks are more restricted to people whom I already know and information and updates are less discoverable.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? What are some examples of similar brands? For example, you might want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Who are the customers? What’s their specific need/pain? Free trials?

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Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups

SoCal CTO

As an example, they walk you through getting your profile more complete. There's been a fair bit of discussion that Branchout is a bit too aggressive in its push for social interaction. You are up and going in just a few clicks. and as part of completing your profile, it helps you spread the message around Branchout.

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Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups

SoCal CTO

As an example, they walk you through getting your profile more complete. There's been a fair bit of discussion that Branchout is a bit too aggressive in its push for social interaction. You are up and going in just a few clicks. and as part of completing your profile, it helps you spread the message around Branchout.

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Social Networking Entreprenuerial Opportunities

SoCal CTO

Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. My main points were: Social Everywhere - I work with a lot of different shapes and sizes of companies and it's interesting how each one has opportunities to leverage its users to form different kinds of communities, create connections, encourage contribution, etc.

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Which Social Networks are for Entrepreneurs?

Startup Professionals Musings

Social networking is indeed the new business networking. For example, my personal interest is entrepreneurs, and MySpace is for tweens. Every social network, including MySpace, claims to be a mecca for business people to network and sell products. Observe the social graces, and have fun!