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8 Tips For Startups Preparing For The Media Spotlight

Startup Professionals Musings

On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

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How Dare They Block My Facebook at Work?

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on a survey just last year by Robert Half Technology , over half of today’s companies block social networks completely, while another 19 percent only permit it "for business purposes." Social networks have become a great vector for Trojans like Zeus and URLZone.

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

Startup Professionals Musings

On the social media side, the stakes are just as great. Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. And so it goes with social networking.

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Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits

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It was built originally on the Twitter platform to talk about stocks, and all users had to do was add a dollar sign to ticker symbols to give it context. Early on, we realized that because Twitter was having issues keeping the site live and up, we needed to solve that for our users in order to build our business. It's fun, I guess.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

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And to give credit where it’s due (in addition to the content that Fred producers) a lot of the discussion works well because of the Disqus commenting platform. Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. It’s an awesome implementation.

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