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Mafia Sourcing – How Insider’s Game User Generated News

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I first learned the ropes around SEO (search engine optimization) and how for years this has been a cat-and-mouse game where people game the system (Google) through link exchanges, offshore SEO “agencies,&# widgets, algorithmically optimized content and the like that degrades the quality of search results. But I did want to learn.

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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect. Start by checking the profile and credentials of investor principals on LinkedIn and industry associations.

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How Gigmor Is Looking To Connect Musicians With Gigs, with David Baird

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Santa Monica-based Gigmor (www.gigmor.com) is an online marketplace for musicians, and recently expanded beyond connecting musicians with each other, to connecting musicians with venues, club organizers, and others. What is Gigmor? David Baird: We're a live music marketplace. David Baird: That's a great question. How long do you have?

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect. Start by checking the profile and credentials of investor principals on LinkedIn and industry associations.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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There are lots of things you can do with data if you can clearly organize it. We had some great offshore coders as part of the engineering team. The idea was to allow people to list and rank items, and use that to generate meaningful value as a recommendation engine. How do you generate all of your data?

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Welcome To The New Wave Of Opportunities And Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. There is no shortage of data to support the assertion that the old large corporations have lost more jobs than they’ve created at home. Entrepreneurs growing companies create more value and more jobs.

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7 Ethical Fictions Lead Many New Entrepreneurs Astray

Startup Professionals Musings

This myth ignores the complexity surrounding ethical decision making, particularly within business organizations. Don’t follow the examples of institutions in the recent financial meltdown, or certain oil companies working offshore, or the many smaller company examples we have seen in our own neighborhoods.