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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. Our business is helping those guys make more money, through our better ad product. We are primarily focused on publishers. Chris Tragos: That's a good question.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. So, he built an auction.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

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Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding

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Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. Here people make online pledges with their credit cards during a campaign, to pre-buy the product for later delivery, if it is ever built. There is no concept of ROI other than product. Pre-order crowd funding. Rewards-based crowd funding. Software crowd sourcing.

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7 Rules for Savvy Customer Service Required Today

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Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. Always end self-help postings with “Did this answer your question?” Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business.

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Will the Real Crowd Funding Model Please Stand Up?

Startup Professionals Musings

Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. Here people make online pledges with their credit cards during a campaign, to pre-buy the product for later delivery, if it is ever built. There is no concept of ROI other than product. Pre-order crowd funding. Rewards-based crowd funding. Software crowd sourcing.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I programed macros to help my mom with her Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets for work. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system.

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