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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Important Branding Lessons From The Top 5 Retailers In The US

YoungUpstarts

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Walmart has long been a top name in US retail.

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. This includes e-commerce websites that ship internationally, content news sites accessible in the European Union, social networks like Facebook and Instagram, and more. Banking and credit card information.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

This was not so illogical as most companies didn’t even run TCP/IP—they ran proprietary networking protocols such as AppleTalk, Netbios, and SNA. As late as November 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead in which he predicted that the Information Super Highway would rule the future. I am naming your car ‘La Bamba.’”

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Millennials In Asia Are Ambitious And Entrepreneurial: VISA Study

YoungUpstarts

Much has been written about the characteristics – and quirks – of the Millennial Generation, those born between 1982 and 1995. Well, unsurprisingly, online social networking is huge with this lot.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Part of Snaptu’s 17 engineers that comprise the company will be integrated into the giant social-networking firm’s California headquarters as application developers while others will be kept in Israel in what will become its Israeli R&D center. Unemployment fell to 6.1% Unemployment had dropped as low as 5.9%

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