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If you’re into Jazz music you’ve maybe come across the wicked tunes of Atlanta-based saxophonist Darryl Reeves by now. Not only did he release his brilliant album “Mercury” last summer, but he also just recently followed up with a free mixtape titled “The Dillaquarium Mixtape” – a tribute to…
Download this now.
In startups, employees expect a level of transparency that doesn’t exist at large companies. At Apple, only the people who need to know are in the know about new products and sensitive internal company information. Contrasting this with a startup, team members are taking both a financial and…
Analyzing share of time spent on social networking sites in December 2012, comScore reveals that while Facebook dominated at 83% share, Tumblr occupied the second spot (5.7%), more than Pinterest (1.9%), Twitter (1.7%), and LinkedIn (1.4%) combined, and almost as much as the aggregate of all other social networks (6.1%).
18-29-year-olds more than twice as likely as the average internet user to use Tumblr (13% vs. 6%).
(via Chart/table from: Tumblr Beat Pinterest, Twitter, and LinkedIn for SocNet Time Spent in December)
Tumblr is #2, thoughts?
As an artist, band, DJ or producer using SoundCloud, people can listen to your music or sounds by playing your streams. This is what makes SoundCloud great; right now it may be considered the premier service for STREAMING music.
Why we are emphasizing streaming here? Because that’s what…
smart move Dropify.
Fred Wilson
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Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) of Union Square Ventures recently sat down with us to talk about his contribution to “Creative Entrepreneurship” and his MBA Mondays series. Fred shared his thoughts about why he started writing MBA Mondays and the topic of education around entrepreneurship and venture capital.
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Watch the video above, and download “Creative Entrepreneurship” for free to read his contribution and the contribution of 24 other venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.
I sat down with Fred Wilson recently to talk about his contribution to “Creative Entrepreneurship”, and we talked a lot about MBA Mondays, teaching through blogging, and NY tech.
Come to Europe Fred! Would love to see you around!
Today Cobook for iPhone gets several great improvements including the much requested support for multiple address book accounts, quick contact actions and phone number formatting.
Multiple Address Book Accounts
You can now use Cobook to manage all your iPhone contacts from iCloud, Exchange,…
Meet Jifo, the infogr.am animal - it has travelled from a distant planet to us. It’s aim is to detect and eliminate ugly data, in fact, it eats old, rusted charts for lunch.
“it eats old, rusted charts for lunch.”
Let’s share the numbers upfront: 1,300 downloads of the Drop resulted in 450 new fans. That’s a great feat considering people were able to skip the Like button to directly receive the download.
Quick Facts
- Drop Type: PDF (recipe)
- Fan Base: 25k Facebook, 8k Twitter
- Time Frame: 1 week
- Total Downloads: 1,300
- Viral Reach: 45,000
- New Fans: 450
