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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. The great-grandson of Hermogenes Lopez had a long history as an executive and angel investor prior to taking on the leadership role at Hawkers.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. The great-grandson of Hermogenes Lopez had a long history as an executive and angel investor prior to taking on the leadership role at Hawkers.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

A few soundbites from the future: Leadership: It’s no longer about being king of the mountain, it’s about being center of the circle. Woman will lead the 21 st century, or at least a feminine social and business ethic. This has flipped with the rise of social facilitation. Generation D don’t ‘network’.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

Both Sides of the Table

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. My entire partnership took their leadership team to dinner. This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I can do that.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

It is always so cool to run marketing campaigns in large homogenous markets (like Europe, Asia, or large chunks of the US). or Google Display Network. Friends of Fans gives the size of your second level network (almost 100% useless). To rigorously prove value we could all work together to create purer controlled experiments.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. FOUR ISRAELIS CHOSEN FOR “GIRLS IN TECH 100 IN EUROPE”. PRIMUS CAPITAL ACQUIRES AOD.

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