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Yahoo, Tumblr tie-up in the works?
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Interesting move by Yahoo and anytime someone throws around the B word you have to listen. Is Tumblr worth a billion? Maybe to Yahoo since they could sure use some relevance and COOL. Tumbr could sure use some ways to make money so maybe everyone wins. Delete the scoop?
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Making the most efficient and effective use of strategies, tools, and technology for content marketing.
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Understanding The Lean Content Movement * Better Metrics tools (tie top of funnel TRAFFIC to bottom CONVERSION). 
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April 27, 3:52 AM
Martin, great tools!. I also use http://www.swayy.co/
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About 400 firms have stopped investing or gone out of business since 2000, by one count, but VCs are optimistic about the next 18 months
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Is VC As A Concept Dead Man Walking
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Excerpted from review article by TechCrunch: However, the new interface does allow for improved search and video discovery, so that users have a better chance to see if the clip they want to make has already been clippity-clipped by someone else. Time saving, my friends, time saving.
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
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ReelSurfer Knows Video Marketing Is A Pain 
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April 14, 10:46 AM
I have to try and see this one, but it looks promising... 
Charlie Dare's curator insight,
April 14, 11:42 PM
A nice idea as I was searching for a clip of Nick Drake but his reclusive past life seemingly that of a shooting star ..then gone. 
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April 20, 2:05 PM
Real Surfer es una excelente herramienta que te permite descubrir, seleccionar, cortar y compartir vídeos desde cualquier lugar de alojamiento de vídeos como Youtube y otros. Delete the scoop?
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The world doesn’t need another Social Network or a better project management tool — I will wait for you here while you come to this conclusi… (Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas - The Redux via @zachgersh http://t.co/ZA5odsZmuO)...
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Startups Disrupt To Win
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Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Great advice in here even as I suspect it sounds easier than it actually IS :). 
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March 11, 12:33 PM
Thanks to Marty Zwilling on StartupProfessionals for distilling some of the key traits that have made Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google such uniquely successful companies. From the article intro: "According to many technology pundits, including Phil Simon, in his book “The Age of the Platform,” these four exemplify the rise of platforms with applications as a business model, rather than a single product or service. Whether you believe his conclusion or not, you can learn a lot from the lessons he offers on how to build a competitive business model today." The article provides ten key principles utilized by this "gang of four" to reach their broad business success. Here my favorite four: 1) Act small. “Bigness” and all of its attendant problems – bureaucracy, politics, infighting, and the like – put any business model at risk. Bureaucracy and excessive democracy kill speed. Shake organizations up often to avoid stiff and inflexible management structures. 3) Move quickly and decisively when spotting a niche. Don’t confuse patience with inertia. Waiting too long means that an opportunity may disappear permanently – or someone else may beat you to the punch. Temper expectations, but make the bet. 4) Use existing tools. It’s time consuming, expensive, and simply unnecessary for every company to create its own tools and base functions (planks) from scratch. By using outposts, businesses increase serendipity, exposure, and cross-pollination. Valuable. To the point. 7/10 Full article: http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2013/03/10-entrepreneurial-lessons-from-gang-of.html Delete the scoop?
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Entrepreneurship has turned into its own cult, complete with a canonical "Bible," a roster of prophets, and a defined creed.
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Meets all the criteria of a religion, walks like a religion, talks like a religion, my gosh I think Startups ARE a religious cult now pass me some MVP and let's grab some VC and go :). Delete the scoop?
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The chart-topping and award-winning songwriter also loves technology. His investment in Charlottesville, Va.-based SpotTrot is letting musicians, entertainers, sports teams and athletes sell goods over mobile devices for the first time.
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If you don't know about the cool Mobile App my friends Patrick and Blake at SpotTrot have created you should and you will. Love how Blake and Patrick narrowed their focus, understood their very cool customers’ needs and began fixing stuff so bands can make money from STUFF. Since few bands make money from "record" sales anymore STUFF pays the bills and SpotTrot helps. * Listen more than you talk. * Innovate and then innovate again.
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The founder of iDoneThis shares his top tips for amping up your startup's content-marketing strategy.
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Startups often forget about content marketing. All attention is on the widget. Problem is if no one knows about your widget it is a tree falling the forest with no one there to hear it. Here are 5 content marketing secrets that are focused on making money now from content marketing. Delete the scoop?
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At these startups, you could get rich—and have fun along the way.
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Several very cool companies I've never heard of in this ist from Business Insider. What about you? Do you know cool startups to bet a career on? Delete the scoop?
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Sign up for WriterAccess and satisfy your content needs. Our content marketplace connects clients with freelance writers via the cloud. Call us at 617-227-8800!
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Cool writer marketplace created by my friend Byron White. Byron is a brilliant entrepreneur who literal wrote the book on how to write BOTH for search engine spiders and to engage an audience. 
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January 25, 4:18 PM
Note to self: this oould be a good place to find writers with a penchant for video who would value a new, non-linear way to present stories in video. Delete the scoop?
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Clothing Startup Everlane Opens A Pop-Up Store In New York, Now Has 400000 ...TechCrunchClothing startup Everlane has opened a pop-up store in New York for the holidays.
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Everlane is rockig retailing at its core. By treating its customers as "members", using technology to suppot WOW customer service and controlingth means of production Everlane is creating a fun experience and loyal customers. Delete the scoop?
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A wave of young professionals are abandoning the pinstriped suits, outsize paychecks and cutthroat attitude of Wall Street for the geekier, more collegial world of tech startups.
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Here's why they call Israel the "Startup Nation."
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I've met and worked with several startups from Israel and they ROCK. Delete the scoop?
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Set new trends by knowing the old ones
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Open With A Question A friend, Brian Chiou @Brian_Chiou, just shared his http://www.imissthisshit.com/ website where visitors share stuff we miss like these green army men, GI Joe and Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. Delete the scoop?
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Trackur is using Pinterest, an online pinboard to collect and share what inspires you. (Reputation advice, infographics, contests, and more? There's a Pinterest board for that!
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Last year, Tim Sae Koo, Nikhil Aitharaju, Eunice Noh and Ryo Chiba launched HypeMarks to give people a less hectic way to consume social media. Via Stan Smith
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Feeds are in all of our futures. Feeds can fulfill Google QDF (Quality Deserves Freshness) needs and increase engagement. Tint looks like a promising tool. Delete the scoop?
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Why are small to medium sized businesses continuing to put money in ValPak and yellow pages? Habit, time and buying those traditional and no dying means of advertising a local business are EASY. Digital marketing is anything BUT easy and that should be a clarion call to Startups.
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BizHive To The Rescue This article should make startups sit up and take notice. This article won't be a surprise to Dave Walker and the team at BizHive.com, a startup dedicated to "normalizing" online marketing so things like email marketing, social media and digital coupons are easy for SMBs to buy. Delete the scoop?
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Shaquille O'Neal just created this quick 15 second Tout video. (RT @SHAQ: I'll be at #SXSW Interactive looking for the next big thing in tech.
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Cool, Shaq says he is looking for the next big TECH thing and wants to be pitched at SXSW. Yeah, I would DO that since A.) You get to talk to SHAQ. B.) He might invest. C.) How Cool woud either of those be? Delete the scoop?
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At the Launch festival in San Francisco Monday, a few start-ups got an earful from the VC judges. Here's why their pitches didn't fly. (What You Can Learn From 3 Controversial Start-up Pitches: At the Launch festival in San Francisco Monday, a fe...
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Love this recounted of the American Idol-like harsh judging of 3 ptiches at San Francisco's Launch Festival on Monday. Delete the scoop?
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Switchcam has been working on a whole new set of tools that will help solve this problem, enabling event organizers to recruit contributors and to manage and..
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Yours, Mine and OURS - New Video Sharing App Delete the scoop?
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New multimedia storytelling tool looks like Pinterest for storytelling. Delete the scoop?
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Goldman Sachs's victory in a legal dispute over its role as the adviser in the sale of Dragon Systems offers some valuable insight for deal makers, like understanding the duties of the banker.
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Fascinating recounting of a collapsed deal and the hard won lessons it would be nice to learn from and not repeat (good luck with that btw :). When I read a story like this it is one more reminder that high school, the land of egos and exclusions, never really ends. Delete the scoop?
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Detailed information about Piccsy for investors.
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Great Startup Investor infographic. Great way to take investor through a cool product and how it is scaling ahead of plan. Delete the scoop?
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Working on a piece for startups about how to create content marketing. Content marketing is the new advertising, the new market maker so to NOT blog and curate content across social nets is to give up on having online authority.
How will people BELIEVE, JOIN and GIVE MONEY to things without authority? Answer: They don't. Follow the tips here, my favorite is delaying gratification, and your startup or SMB strategy will be better.