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239 Articles match "2008","Event"
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Friday, March 12, 2010
When you click on the link of each event it takes you to a page that has a wiki with info on what the event is, where it’s located, the time it starts and photos. Johnson former founder and CEO of VirtualTourist.com, which was acquired by Expedia in July 2008), Lunch’s proprietary Similarity Network engine calculates commonalities in taste and opinions among the site’s members.
...Tags: Today Lunch.com announced its biggest product expansion to date, Communities; a platform that gives people the ability to create their own personal review websites on the Lunch.com site.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash.
This isn’t a story about Black Swan events. It History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash.
This isn’t a story about Black Swan events. It A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” I I think the perfect saying to have as a reminder is “time is the enemy of all deals,” or as my wife is all too tired of hearing me say, “Don’t pop the champagne until the ink is dry on the contract and the money is in the bank.”
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you have any feedback on events. There's a promising new weekly morning networking event unlike any I've seen. plan to be there. Notably, and at the other end of the spectrum appears to be the big daddy of networking events, The MeatEaters Ball . 3 Updates and 16 New in SoCal Networking Event Organizations . Weekly updates! Ellen kicks-off the weekly NetWalkers & Co.
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
Luckily, I've found a GREAT way to make my time spent at events much better. I call it: Prenetworking I spend about 30 minutes prior to the event going through the list of attendees and reaching out ahead of the event to suggest that we meet while we are there. try to do this roughly about 2-3 days ahead of the event. I've never been able to walk into a large group of people and feel like I can "work the room." Sure, I've read various articles on this stuff, but honestly, I still struggle with meeting interesting people.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
A while ago I posted about Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking where I recommended that people should look at who's attending the event prior to going to the event in order to make their networking more effective. Since I posted on this and since I've been using this approach for quite a while, it has become pretty obvious that part of the reason that old school organizations / event producers are not getting the value of providing this kind of list. I've received a lot of positive feedback on the post. And I think it hurts them in attendance.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. It was a really good event with lots of interesting folks in attendance. I would guess that there was about 100 people - on a Saturday in Pasadena. That shows some interest in the topic. The presenters had some interesting things to say on a wide variety of topics.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
It is designed for sharing leads, contacts, industry information and career events." gid=1775486 Self-description: "80% of jobs (or more) are found through networking, so as a group of professionals from many different industries, we started our own local networking group in 2008. L7 events are for singles, couples and groups of friends. This is will be a continually updating post. I'll be creating additional lists for educational, chamber of commerce, etc. Organizational representatives: please contact me directly for updates, etc. Attendees: If you have review comments
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Generally, I prefer a single table or log that can be queried later that stores events. The right granularity of events is at the “business” event level, like “someone updated their profile” or “someone downloaded a video” rather than at the URL level. You might, for example, hold events in the rough key/value form:
Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen
Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
So he went to events that let him connect with bloggers face-to-face.
Blogging celebrities like Robert Scoble have mobs of people around them at events. ( I’m sick of the usual interviews with Tim Ferriss , which waste time arguing over whether it’s possible to work four hours a week. What I want to know is how Tim got so many people to talk about him and his book, The Four Hour Work Week , and how he made his book into a New York Times Best Seller.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Here are some techniques for getting in for free, based on what I heard in my interviews and events.
She wrote about it in Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good , the book she talked about at this Mixergy event .
Copy a badge - I promised not to reveal his name, but a guest I met at a Mixergy event told me that he gets into top conferences by photocopying his friends’ badges.
When Timothy Ferriss came on Mixergy , he said meeting bloggers in person at conferences helped make his book a New York Times Best Seller. When Craig heard that, he
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
You might have noticed that Microsoft has been a big supporter of my events for startups? Keith and Chemda don’t have the budget to pay evangelists, but if they see that someone is creating an event around their show, they sometimes surprise them free Keith and the Girl merchandise to help them.
From what I can see, there’s no real profit in these events, so I asked them why they do it. Can you imagine having a community of fans that’s so passionate about what you’re doing that they tattoo your image on their bodies? I
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
In any event, kudos to Dmitri. So, those who know me might be asking why I was at Drupal Camp , or, more importantly, what exactly is Drupal camp. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS)Â and also a content management framework. In a discussion about the hot CMS’, three are at the top of the pile, Drupal, WordPress and Joomla .
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Even though most of their conversations happen online, Ed, Kevin and other Hacker News members have met in person at a Y Combinator event. Sanjay Sabnani, who runs some of the biggest online forums , told me that he often brings his online members together for in person events at his house.
I didn’t get what I was looking for from this interview, but I think what I learned is even better.
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