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In Defense of Uber: An Unbiased Opinion

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I was at an alumni dinner at UCSD (I am on the alumni board) and a group of people were talking about how their kids use UberX to get rides home from parties at night. This article had much resonance with me. The author followed an Uber driver around and used it as evidence of why Uber drivers hate the service.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. Online marketing uses techniques for driving promotion and place. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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They did it by creating a blog, discussion board and hub for eCommerce advice and information. So my biggest recommendation of “what&# to blog is a series of articles that will be helpful to your community. Take one topic and break it up into 10 bite-sized articles. I use WordPress. Blog on that topic.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be. Reader beware.).

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From Solo Entrepreneur to Franchisor: 20 Years of Business Growth With EO

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This unfortunate mix of personal and professional concerns made me feel alone in my struggles. My EO Forum served as a sounding board to examine my challenges—both personal and professional. I used to suffer from imposter syndrome , feeling like I was less than my fellow entrepreneurs. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Infermedica Raises $10 million Series A for R&D and International Expansion

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The investment will be used for platform R&D to further enhance patient triage and symptom checking features as well as clinical decision support analysis – including intake collection, differential diagnostics and lab test interpretation – and to expand operations in Germany and the US, where Infermedica currently has one office.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.