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The Perfect Pithy And Productive Investor Pitch

InfoChachkie

In The Art of One-line Pitching: A Study of AngelList , Chris Eleftheriadis reviewed 1,700AngelList postings and identified the nine most common categories of positioning pitches (Chris'' list is edited here for brevity): 1. Ebay+Soundcloud = us" and "FLIMBY=Yammer+Delicious+Gotomeeting.". Yammer for Education) & explanatory (e.g.,

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

socalTECH

One of my friends, the CIO of a large healthcare system, did a study with Verizon of their facility, and found that there were 3 million SMS messages sent in a month. We''ve very much taken a play out of the Yammer playbook. Yammer used this to create lead generation from the top down. That''s important in how we market.

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8 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Lead With New Work Models

Startup Professionals Musings

In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social platforms such as Slack and Yammer. Another study predicts this number could grow to 24 million by 2018. Explore benefits of employing “mature” workers.

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Entrepreneurs And Startups Drive Future Work Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social media platforms such as Yammer. Another study predicts this number could grow to 24 million by 2018. Explore benefits of employing “mature” workers. In the US, nearly 18 million workers identified themselves as independent in 2013, up 10% from 2011.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. My company and I are a perfect case study for the Tech Council affiliation. Sometimes I make a blog entry.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

Studying for the SAT, LSAT, GMAT, TOEFL, MCAT and other standardized tests in the US is a massive market that has been dominated for years by Kaplan and Princeton Review. Knewton, Grockit and others are creating new ways for students to study for these tests in a more cost effective way. In business you spend your life in email.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

Both Sides of the Table

Phenomenal tech talent including the co-founder of Farmville- Zao Yang – AND ALSO the lead product designer – George Ishii – for Yammer & Geni. Again, from my favorite OpEd columnist David Brooks in a wonderful piece about happiness : “Over the past few decades, teams of researchers have been studying happiness.

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