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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009.

Stealth 285
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[Review] Enterprise Social Technology

YoungUpstarts

As someone who is always interested at how social technologies can be harnessed for business and enterprise use, I can’t recommend Scott Klososky’s new book “ Enterprise Social Technology: Helping Organizations Harness the Power of Social Media, Social Networking, Social Relevance &# quite enough.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

While I had managed to persuade two great VC’s to teach the class with me ( Jon Feiber and Ann Miura-ko ), what if I was wasting their time? JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites. But we could be wrong.

Lean 307
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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

You Manage What you Measure. One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Or they go in the opposite direction and spend too much time capturing & measuring data that isn’t used to make management decisions. On measurement. In 6 months?

Metrics 346
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Best Online HR Management Tools Every Company Needs

YoungUpstarts

Although it is not possible for technology to take over completely the human resource management , the right software speeds and eases up HR management. Therefore HR software can be grouped on the aspect of HR functions they manage. Human capital management HR software. Human capital management HR software.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

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Everconnect.me Unifies Your Social Networking Profiles And Contacts

YoungUpstarts

Feeling overburdened by trying to handle multiple social networking services at the same time? Confused and frustrated by the need to manage all your social contact lists? service to help manage such information overload. service to help manage such information overload. We empathize.