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Changing your startup’s name: A tale of crowdsourcing 843 domain names

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by on March 31, 2014 at 7:55 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Sandi Lin is the CEO and co-founder of Skilljar, which provides online course software for businesses. Every entrepreneur has faced the nearly impossible task of naming their startup. Branding sounds like a fun activity until you realize: There are virtually no decent .com domains available. Negotiations are very time-consuming and potentially fruitless, especially on a lean startup budget. Having a great name is important to your success, perhaps critically so. It’s a pain to change your name later, yet it’s very possible your company will pivot. Your team is wasting precious hours/days/weeks. In the meantime, you have no brand to…

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Square now lets sellers accept Bitcoin on their own storefronts

Mar31
by on March 31, 2014 at 7:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Mobile

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Square today announced it has added support for paying with Bitcoin. As a result, buyers can now use the digital currency to purchase goods and services on Square Market, which allows sellers to create an online storefront with online payment processing. The mobile payment company promises the experience won’t feel any different for sellers and they “don’t have to change a thing, except potentially expecting new trailblazing customers and more sales.” In other words, Square wants them to be able to offer Bitcoin as a payment option without any headaches. While Square says it “focused on making the experience smooth…

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Amazon Student lands in the UK with discounted deliveries for six months and 50% off Prime thereafter

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by on March 31, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, UK

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Amazon today launched its Student-focused program in the UK, giving aspiring academics discounted delivery prices and Kindle tablets for a limited period. You’ll need to offer an ac.uk e-mail address, as well as your expected graduation date, academic level and chosen course to qualify. Once you’ve been accepted, Amazon will give you free one-day delivery for over 7 million items on its site, as well as discounted rates for Express and evening deliveries. From now until May 15, Amazon Student will entitle you to 20 percent off all Kindle Fire hardware in the UK, including the Fire HD and HDX….

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The 15-minute social media audit everyone can do

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by on March 31, 2014 at 6:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's, Social Media

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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog and has been republished with permission. The word “audit” deserves more love than it gets. When I hear the word, my mind goes straight to tax season and the manila envelope crammed with receipts and forms that I keep stashed away in the closet. Audits seem to equal anxiety, which is too bad – because not all audits are created equal. A tune-up at the garage is essentially an audit for your car, a check-up at the doctor is an audit of your health. You can learn a lot from regular reviews like these….

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Twitter increases its focus on social TV by buying analytics firms Mesagraph and SecondSync

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by on March 31, 2014 at 5:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Twitter wants its social network to be the definitive place for advertisers and broadcasters to promote their shows, and to that end it’s just gobbled up TV analytics specialists Mesagraph and SecondSync. Mesagraph runs a web-based platform called Meaningly, which gives users the ability to pull “meaningful insights” around specific topics based on what’s being tweeted about in near real-time. The Mesagraph TV API then builds on that by offering custom streams and analytics based around live TV shows. That expertise could come in handy for Twitter, but it’ll also be eyeing up the partnerships Mesagraph already has with French…

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