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Face.com Gets $4.3 Million from Russian Yandex and Rhodium

VC Cafe

Tag photos with your facebook or twitter friends- The Tagger app uses the face.com tagging widget to add a face tagging interface on top of any image in the page. The tagging widget uses faces.detect to automatically place tags on people's faces, and allows users to add names. The total amount is $4.3M

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news.

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Are DMs the new Cold Calls?

Duct Tape Marketing

If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive at oracle.com/ducttape Wix work in sync with your team all on one canvas, reuse templates, widgets and sections across sites. And we're like, well, we know how to hire on board and train sales teams. Alright, time's up, but the list keeps going. What do you guys do?

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Outsmart Competitors With Agency-First Web Design

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch (00:16): What you just heard was a testimonial from a recent graduate of the Duct Tape Marketing certification intensive program for fractional CMOs marketing agencies and consultants just like them. I wonder how many intros have that in with his high school friend, Amir Glot, who is now the CTO in 2008.

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. One person making a mistake may be a deranged lone wolf, but systematic mistakes are the result of systemic problems.

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

www.quora.com

As a result, there is a much bigger supply of these people than there are of founders who can get a company to the point of hiring some early employees. 109k/year plus the option to build more widgets in the future. Mark Slee • Mar 9, 2010 View All 3 Comments Edit Link Text Show answer summary preview when available.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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