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This is our second post on startup lessons from the movie The Social Network, about the founding of Facebook. The movie did well over its opening weekend, reportedly bringing in $23 million, at the high end of studio estimates. But is it true to life? Laura Sydell, a correspondent for NPR, saw the movie with [...]

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Taxes and your business type

by sara on April 15, 2010

Well, Tax Day is upon us, and hopefully you’ve gotten your forms filled, your returns filed, and you’ve got a nice refund on the way. With all things fiscal in the air, it’s a good time to think about your company’s legal structure, and how that’s affecting your business tax status. There are both legal [...]

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It seems that there is no human endeavor that will not be subverted by those with evil intent. The social-mediasphere is no exception. This recent Yahoo! News article, Injunction by Twitter: A Blogger Makes History Trying to Unmask His Impostor reports how the English High Court is using Twitter to serve an injunction against a [...]

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The marketing potential of social media has been recognized since its inception. And, for just as long, there have been those people who are willing to manipulate that potential. One of those ways has been the posting of fake reviews. This involves filling blogs and sites full of ostensibly genuine, satisfied-customer-written reviews, extolling the excellence [...]

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