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Three Social Networking Startups: RevCat, YourLocal, CollectorsQuest

I was a judge tonight at an event sponsored by the MIT Enterprise Forum-NY, presentations by three social networking companies. (Sponsor: Fish & Richardson P.C.) The other judges: – Steve Brotman, Managing Director, Greenhill SAVP – Jim Coleman, President & Certified Facilitator -The Alternative Board – Chelsea New York – Russ Fein, Managing Director, Corporate...

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Events, New York, Social Media

A marketplace for research

The team from AQ Research (at whose conference I’ll be speaking tomorrow in London) has written a blog post about an idea I’ve chewed on for a while: A Marketplace for Research’. There are a number of gross inefficiencies in the current research business, and inefficiencies are usually the breeding ground where new business models...

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Marketplaces, Research

Blogs as Business Tools (Investors’ Business Daily)

Gary Stern of Investors’ Business Daily wrote in a recent article, Blogs Are Put To Use As Business Machines on the significant benefits of unconventional marketing tools, especially blogs. According to the article, blogs can help greatly in generating new prospects and business leads.Of course, blog functionality is migrating steadily to all websites. The Hindu...

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Social Media

Update on Jigsaw, marketplace for business contact information

I enjoyed meeting with Jim Fowler yesterday, CEO of Jigsaw (our wiki profile). Jigsaw is a marketplace for business contact information. It’s very useful for salespeople, recruiters, researchers, jobseekers, and so on. Some noteable data points: + We know from our own experience that the problem with most traditional list services is that their data...

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Sales, Social Media

Social Commerce: Do you want to do business with your friends?

I’ve recently talked with a few people about ‘social commerce’—the idea that our online business activities will both reflect and in part be driven by our personal social network. My coauthor Scott Allen recently did a market research study on “Transactional Trust in Social Commerce”, which provides some context on this. For example, many people...

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Social Media

Research Pricing

I enjoyed participating in AQ Research’s recent conference on “The Future of Research”, last December 5. I finally had a chance to edit and post my notes on the panel on Research Pricing. Speakers: Lisa Shalett, Chairman and CEO, Sanford C Bernstein Paul Spillane, CEO, Soleil Securities Chair: Albert Alonzo, AQ Research Lisa Shalett: If...

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Research, Social Media
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