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As An Entrepreneur, Are You Ready To Meet The Press?

Startup Professionals Musings

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. People judge you and your company in the first few seconds.

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Every Startup Needs To Be Ready To Meet The Press

Startup Professionals Musings

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. People judge you and your company in the first few seconds.

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8 Tips For Startups Preparing For The Media Spotlight

Startup Professionals Musings

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. People judge you and your company in the first few seconds.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. I know this category has gotten a lot of press. Why are they doing it on textPlus?

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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

I agree with my friend Lon Safko, and his classic book “ The Social Media Bible ,” which asserts your team can be successful at social without the cost of an expensive expert or agency, by following these five basic steps: Start with the dominant players. Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 billion users).

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Interview with Gary Bishop, Network Automation

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What makes us unique, is we've got an automation platform which allows you to deploy in any of those ways. We can deliver a very functional, automation platform for less than $2000. We also have many customers who find us through search engine activity and social network activity. How do you compete against them?

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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

Both Sides of the Table

So resume + directionally-correct social graph = goldmine for recruiting, networking and marketing. It doesn’t strike me as a “social network&# in the way we’ve come to define them. But its focus on solving a real-world problem makes it uniquely valuable to most other social graphs.

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