Even these big guys were seeds at one point in time. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A good friend of mine has long argued that startups can succeed through vision and hard work.
Story is the thing every startup has that they rarely know they have. Most startups think marketing is something "out there" when marketing is always "in here". Marty
A 13 percent drop in the social network's shares over its first five days of trading cinches its status, the news service reports. Read this blog post by Donna Tam on Internet & Media.
There's a lot of talk these days about what you can do with "big data." Here's one of the more eye-catching uses: A startup called Recorded Future pulls data from around the Web to give customers a better handle on — that's right... 
ScentTrail Marketing, my personal marketing blog, is the first Profit Not Blog. Please help Profit Not Bloggers save the world one blog at a time. Spread the word about the Profit Not Blog mission and our search. We need to find the 2nd, 3rd and 100th Profit Not Blogs. Thanks, Marty 
Our very first day of Disrupt NYC is over and the conference started off with a bang. 
The start-up scene is on fire, flooded with apps that are attracting backing from venture capitalists. Marty 
Facebook shares opened 11% higher but struggled to stay above their $38 offering price. The stock closed at $38.23. Underwriters stepped in to support shares, while traders complained of Nasdaq trading problems. Via Rami Kantari 
Startup Sauna, a Helsinki based seed accelerator, announced today that it will be hosting its biannual Demo Day in San Francisco on Thursday, May 24, 2012. Demo Day will showcase Startup Saunas top 10 most ... **** Cool and only the norse Gods would create a "Startup Sauna" in San Fran. Marty 
Met the Bronto team this week and continue to admire the intuitive, powerful, elegant and sophisticatedly simple platform a group of artists in my backyard (Durham) created. If the most powerful gift is helping others become artists Bronto's team are giants of generosity. 
Robin Good: Now that SlideShare has significanty restricted its free offerings, limiting the size of presentations that can be uploaded for free, many presenters like me have started looking again for valid alternatives. "Projeqt is simple, intuitive and highly social, playing nice with other platforms by allowing you to mesh together text, image, video and feeds within the same Projeqt." Key features include: -> Stacks - build deeper inside a presentation by creating stacks in place of individual slides -> Cross-platform - works on any modern browser, mobile device or tablet. -> Upload PPT, PDF or batches of image files -> Embed everywhere -> Link together and connect as many presentations as you like. -> Multiple display options Features: https://projeqt.com/#features Examples: https://projeqt.com/#examples More info: https://projeqt.com/ Via Robin Good 
The are almost too many tech events in the calendar these days to mark any particular one out as being worthy of note. ... 
Buddy Media arms marketers with more social toolsGigaOMThe update includes a unified social data API, the ability to track conversions and campaigns across entire social media efforts, and a new mobile content development platform that makes... Via Renato Bertuol |
Every day brings some new bit of information — or hype — about social business. If you actively follow the social space, it's easy to get caught in the never-ending stream. If you don't, you may find all the talk about social overwhelming.
Via Rami Kantari 
Sharing has always been at the heart of Automattic, the developers of WordPress. And now those developers are looking to give back to the community – in the true spirit of open source.
Via Stefano Bossi 
We’re not in Silicon Valley anymore.
***** This seems right since the idea that any company is or can take create of you will increasingly seem strange and goofy (if even available). Seth Godin's Linchpin covers this trend the best I've read. Marty 
Giuseppe Mauriello: Learnist is a new site (still in beta) that aims to be like Pinterest but for sharing learning resources. On Learnist you can create pinboards of materials organized around a topic. You can pin images, videos, and text to your boards by using the Leanist bookmarklet, by manually entering the URL of a resource, or by uploading materials to your boards.
From article by Mashable:
"Grockit's latest product re-configures online content such as YouTube videos, Wikipedia entries and ebooks into ordered lesson plans.
Unlike Pinterest, however, creators suggest a path in which to consume each content component. Users can check off each component as they go or “re-add” it to one of their own learnings.
Grockit founder Farbood Nivi argues that expert curation helps avoid the misinformation, hacked-together how-to articles and other useless content one must weed through in a typical Google search. It also provides a clear learning path and eventually, he hopes, will include some form of assessment..."
Read full article: http://j.mp/MGkVD2
Request an invite and try it here: http://learni.st
Via Giuseppe Mauriello 
Ever thought bout building an e-commerce store or affiliate site? Make sure you put thought into these five crucial aspects of running that business.
***** Been there, done that and helped employers make millions and my one Martin Rule is everything online costs 3x what you think it will and takes at least 2x the amount of time. Easy is only what it looks like in the restaurant. In the kitchen people are killing themselves to make your Internet experience memorable and to create the advocacy needed to survive. Marty 
And the number of platforms offering or facilitating online courses, video and otherwise, (often free) is growing fast, including Khan Academy, 2tor, Udacity, Pathwright, StraighterLine, TED Ed, Course Hero, etc. 
Recent Stories: Game of Thrones brings the pain…and not in a good way (review) · Smash, grab, and steal from your friends in Fable Heroes (review) · Bloodforge brings a good, gory romp to Xbox Live Arcade (review) ... **** Love this quote: “We decided that launching our first game was more important than telling the world that we existed,” CEO Patrick Curry 
Create awesome videos from your photos, video clips and music. Simply upload your photos and videos, add music and Slidemotion will do the rest... all you need to do is share them.
**** Cool and helpful. Marty Via Baiba Svenca, Kent Wallén, Jim Lerman 
Social media marketing startup Tiger Pistol raises angel fundingVentureBeatThe social media marketing company will cater to business in Asia and the South Pacific. Tiger Pistol helps businesses beef up their Facebook pages with apps and tab pages.
Photos get animated with Gifture, Cinemagram appsLos Angeles TimesThe free iPhone app lets you turn a series of photos into a singular animated image, or a GIF.
***** Cool as I always found creating an animated GIF to be a true PAIN. Marty 
Many bloggers know that external links are the best way to improve SEO, Google Page Rank and traffic to your blog, but how do you get other sites to link up to you? You can learn some of the best practices for how to get external links, but applications like Tynt also help by prompting visitors to share links to your content without you having to lift a finger. Via Cendrine 
We would like to put your startup story on the top page of IdeasWatch and help you put a lot of eyes on your project, whatever stage you are in http://su.pr/2tV7pA Via OsakaSaul |
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