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Interview with Mike Macadaan, Urbandig

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One of Urbandig's co-founders, Mike Macadaan -- the former VP of User Experience at MySpace, and creator of the technology conference Twiistup--sat down to talk to us about the company. There are lots of knowledgeable people that we find to write these guides--people who grew up there, and who are experts in the area.

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Entrepreneurs Must Measure ROI On Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and the fading MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Communication and writing skills are required. Heavy texting experience is not a qualification for communicating via social media.

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Interview with Josh Brooks, Postcard On The Run

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We spoke with Josh Brooks , the founder and CEO of the company, about what the firm is doing, his background at MySpace, and what's next for the company. I ran program and marketing for MySpace for a little over three years. After MySpace, I did the old Burbank to San Jose commute. I did content for that company.

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Startups Must Balance Social Media Costs vs Value

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and the fading MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Communication and writing skills are required. Heavy texting experience is not a qualification for communicating via social media.

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Social Media Isn’t Free to Entrepreneurs or Anyone

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Communication and writing skills are required. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

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The Power of Getting the Band Back Together

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You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. ” It’s like you hear about “mafia’s” of PayPal, Facebook, MySpace, Salesforce, etc. Here’s just one example post featuring the wisdom I learned from Stuart about negotiations. Mafias matter.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Digital Equipment Corporation had a computer called the Rainbow Computer, and I was writing 80x86 assembler for the hardware adaptation layer of Windows for the Rainbow. Those are two examples, we have about a dozen.

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