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2/14/12 Links

2012-02-14T14:19:00.001-05:00

Your daily links for Tuesday February 14, 2012. 99 Problems But Money Ain't One - Signal vs. Noise Four Pitfalls that Sabotage Startup Growth - Sandhill Apple Beats Out Google, Amazon For Highest Corporate Reputation Score - TechCrunch Apple Stock Hits $500 as China ‘iPad’ Trademark Case Escalates - TIME.com Your Heartbeat Could Be Your Password - Gizmodo BitTorrent Piracy Has No

2/13/12 Links

2012-02-13T13:54:00.000-05:00

Your daily links for Monday February 13, 2012. NUTS: Google Faces Challenges, Apple Flourishes Despite Criticism - Forbes Apple Pops, Wall St Firms Drop in Brand Study - Reuters Are CEOs Psychopaths? - CBS News Why Starbucks Succeeds In China - The Business Insider The Push to Kill QR Codes Continues - Marketing VOX Good Content Marketing vs. Great Content Marketing: Learn the

2/10/12 Links

2012-02-10T13:39:00.002-05:00

Your daily links for Friday February 10, 2012. Richard Branson on Decision-Making For Entrepreneurs - Entrepreneur.com The Battle Against SOPA Is Far From Over - Entrepreneur.com All or Something - Signal vs. Noise The Death of Firefox - ExtremeTech Nuclear Reactor Approved in U.S. for First Time Since 1978 - Scientific American Google's First Employee Departs - Slashdot 7-inch iPad

2/9/12 Links

2012-02-09T13:58:00.001-05:00

Your daily links for Thursday February 9, 2012. How a Laser Could Make Your Hard Drive 1,000 Times Faster - Gizmodo What You Need to Succeed and How to Find Out If You Have It - Scientific American How Apple’s iPhone Actually Hurts AT&T, Verizon and Sprint - Time Apple's $90 Billion Run - Fortune Path Does the Right Thing On User Privacy - Gizmodo Google Offers To Pay People To Have

2/8/12 Links

2012-02-08T14:00:00.003-05:00

Your daily links for Wednesday February 8, 2012. Apple Promises A Crack Down On Those Who Manipulate App Store Rankings - paidContent.org Why Facebook's Daily Active Users Is Not The Number That Matters - Fast Company 6 Secrets to a Successful Startup - Inc Magazine How To Fix iPhone Auto Correct, The Bane Of Your Existence - The Business Insider This VC Thinks Health Tracking Is About To

Facebook IPO

2012-02-07T14:00:00.000-05:00

Blog reader Peter from mbaonline.com submitted this graphic to the blog. It's well done and has some interesting tidbits about Facebook within. Here's the text that supports the graphic: "Facebook’s IPO filing not only made a statement as the largest for any technology company but a glimpse into their earnings shows their attention to detail. In 2011, FB reported a net income of $1 Billion.

2/6/12 Links

2012-02-06T14:08:00.003-05:00

Your daily links for Monday February 6, 2012. Facebook’s Mobility Challenge - NY Times Citi Gets Approval to Issue Credit Cards in China - Reuters Only 8.5% Of Internet Usage Comes Via Mobiles, Double Last Year's Figure - paidContent.org Hey Samsung, Here's A Reminder From Steve Jobs On Why People Hate Styluses - The Business Insider These Are The 10 Most Educated Countries In The World (

2/3/12 Links

2012-02-03T13:26:00.001-05:00

Your daily links for Friday February 3, 2012. Forget Networking. How to Be a Connector - Entrepreneur The Management Team - A VC Watch This: This Optical Illusion Will Give You a Headache For the Next Two Hours - Gizmodo Sorry, Most of Your Tweets Are Worthless - PCMag.com Advice to New Facebook Millionaires: Take a Breath - Reuters How Marc Andreessen Makes Silicon Valley Magic -

2/2/12 Links

2012-02-02T13:51:00.004-05:00

Your daily links for Thursday February 2, 2012. Scientists Can Now Actually Read Your Mind [Science] - Gizmodo Self-Guided Bullet Could Strike Laser-Designated Targets From A Mile Away - TechCrunch A Sales Lesson from Punxsutawney - Good Ground blog Mark Zuckerberg Hacks S-1 Filing With Letter To Shareholders On Eve Of Facebook IPO - Fast Company Now Facebook Must Prove To Wall Street

2/1/12 Links

2012-02-01T14:03:00.004-05:00

Your daily links for Wednesday February 1, 2012. Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years? - Ben Horowitz/ben's blog Social Network Ads: LinkedIn Falls Behind Twitter; Facebook Biggest Of All - paidContent.org Facebook to file $5 billion IPO Wednesday - Reuters The Facebook IPO Players Club: Sean Parker - Fast Company The Bookstore's Last Stand: Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon

1/31/12 Links

2012-01-31T13:14:00.000-05:00

Your daily links for Tuesday January 31, 2012. 3 Things Every CEO Must Do in 2012 - Inc Magazine If This Doesn't Convince You To Work For Twitter, Then Nothing Will [video 3:11] - The Business Insider Has Your Business Failed (and You Just Won't Admit It)? - Inc Magazine Facebook IPO: Is Another VC Boom on the Horizon? - Wall Street Journal Is Facebook worth $100 billion? - CNN Money The

1/30/12 Links

2012-01-30T17:48:00.002-05:00

Your daily links for Monday January 30, 2012. Four Reasons Why Facebook's IPO is Irrelevant - Forbes How Should Facebook Use $10 Billion in IPO Cash? - Forbes Meet the Start-up Doctor - Inc Magazine 5 Famous People Who Succeeded Long After They Should've Quit - Digg Five Ways Twitter Is Changing Media Law - paidContent.org

1/27/12 Links

2012-01-27T15:10:00.003-05:00

Your daily links for Friday January 27, 2012. Entrepreneurial Spirit Awaits Its Moment in the Middle East - NY Times Why is Investment Income Taxed Less Than Wages? - Associated Press Twitter Commits Social Suicide - Forbes Twitter Faces Censorship Backlash - paidContent.org North Korea Outlaws Cell Phones - Forbes Straight From Davos: There's A Reason It's Called 'Venture' Capital - The

1/26/12 Links

2012-01-26T13:54:00.000-05:00

Your daily links for Thursday January 26, 2012. Watching Apple Win the World - 37signals $100 Billion Question: What Should Apple Do With Its Cash? - Time Ten Tips for Pitching Your Company - This is Going to be Big Google: How the Government Used a Con Artist to Catch Google's Criminal Activities - Gizmodo Feds say senior Google Execs Knew About Illicit Pharma Ads - ars technica

1/24/12 Links

2012-01-24T14:04:00.002-05:00

Your daily links for Tuesday January 24, 2012. Google Tweaks Search Results to Punish Ad-Heavy Websites - Wired Google: Do Yourself a Favor and Just Come Clean Already - Pando Daily Why We Should Teach Our Kids to Code - Slashdot Science: Clever 1-Minute Video Shows How Airplane Wings Really Work [video, 1:14] - Gizmodo Will This Be Apple's First $40 Billion Quarter? - TechCrunch 11 Vital

1/20/12 Links

2012-01-20T13:55:00.000-05:00

Your daily links for Friday January 20, 2012. Venture Capitalists Spend More Cash - Reuters 4 of 7 Named in Megaupload Indictment Denied Bail in New Zealand - NY Times Iran: Iranian Programmer Sentenced to Death for Developing Porn Site Software - Gizmodo Apple's Big Plan To Revolutionize The Textbook Stinks - The Business Insider Jon Stewart Tells Us Everything We Need To Know About SOPA [

1/18/12 Links

2012-01-18T16:24:00.000-05:00

Your daily links for Wednesday January 18, 2012. 8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now - Both Sides of the Table Online Advertising Is Most-Pitched Media Product, But How Best To Sell It? - paidContent.org A Lost And Found For The Internet - Fast Company Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang Resigns from Company - CBS News Wikipedia Editors Question Site's Blackout - AP Google

1/17/12 Links

2012-01-17T15:48:00.003-05:00

Your daily links for Tuesday January 17, 2012. Obama Says So Long SOPA, Killing Controversial Internet Piracy Legislation - Forbes Ahead of May IPO, Facebook's Ad Business Shines--With One Caveat - Forbes Employees' Most Outrageous 'Late' Excuses - LiveScience SendGrid Sends 2.6 Billion Monthly Emails And It Just Raised $21 Million - San Francisco Chronicle Do You Buy This? Free Apps With

1/14/12 Links

2012-01-14T09:42:00.003-05:00

Your daily links for Saturday January 14, 2012. Underwater Noise Disturbs Whales 120 Miles Away - Wired Technology Waves and Valuations: Are We in a Social Networking Bubble? - Roger and Mike's Hypernet Blog Since 2007 Bill Gates Has Given Away 48 Percent of His Net-Worth for Charity [Infographic] - The Inquisitr Combating Online Piracy while Protecting an Open and Innovative Internet -

1/13/12 Links

2012-01-13T16:42:00.001-05:00

Your daily links for Friday January 13, 2012. Apple Suspends iPhone 4S Sales in Mainland China Stores - NY Times Google CEO Larry Page Just Made His First Big Mistake - Forbes Google Is Diving Back Into China With Search That Can't Be Censored - The Business Insider Rupert Murdoch On The MySpace Deal: "We Screwed Up In Every Way Possible" - The Business Insider Documenting Life in a

1/12/12 Links

2012-01-12T13:35:00.003-05:00

Your daily links for Thursday January 12, 2012. 33 Entrepreneurs Who Make This World A Better Place - Idea Mensch InboundScore Ranks Incoming Website Sales Leads Intelligently (exclusive) - VentureBeat A Q&A With Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber - Washingtonian Q4 Venture Deals, Dollars Stayed Strong, Making 2011 Best in a Decade - Xconomy How to Raise Money for Your Startup -- Now -

1/11/12 Links

2012-01-11T13:04:00.000-05:00

Your daily links for Wednesday January 11, 2012. With Romney Under Attack, Private Equity Fights Back - NY Times The Private Equity Industry Is Striking Back With Its Argument For Why It Makes America Great - The Business Insider Majority Doesn't Care Whether Boss Is Male or Female - Forbes Google+ Is Way Bigger Than We Thought: It's Totally Going To Change How The Web Works - The Business

1/10/12 Links

2012-01-10T13:27:00.006-05:00

Your daily links for Tuesday January 10, 2012. Google Goes After Your Local Small Business - Fast Company Six in Ten Hedge Funds Lost Money in 2011 - CNBC TVs You Can Talk To, Without Sounding Crazy - Newsday Can Tom Hanks Really Deliver The ‘Comic-Con Crowd’ For Yahoo? paidContent.org Apple CEO’s Stock Options Lift 2011 Compensation to $378 Million - Businessweek Check Out The Insane

1/9/12 Links

2012-01-09T12:17:00.000-05:00

Your daily links for Monday January 9, 2012. Analysts: Gadget sales to top $1 trillion in 2012 - UT San Diego Goldman Sachs Partners Could See Pay Cuts - Reuters The People vs. Best Buy, Round Two - Forbes Leadership Lessons From the Man Behind the World's Biggest Restaurant Company - Inc Magazine To Achieve Big Goals, Become A Pattern Thinker (Or, How The Cool Ranch Dorito Was Born) - Fast

1/6/12 Links

2012-01-06T15:01:00.001-05:00

Your daily links for Friday January 6, 2012. Millennial Media Files for I.P.O - peHUB Ipad: Google Translate Goes Grande On the iPad - Gizmodo This Is The Billion Dollar Opportunity That Could Save Zynga - The Business Insider Mashable's Digital Predictions for 2012 - Mashable Father of the Internet: The Internet Isn’t a Human Right - Wired.com iPad 3 to Pack Retina Display, FaceTime HD