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24th July 2004

The Seth Godin Interview

“As PR Machine’s producer, Robb Hecht, evangelizes the technological integration of blogs and RSS with brand advancement within the public relations practice, we were overjoyed during Global PR Blog Week 1.0 to get the opportunity to interview Seth Godin, former Yahoo! VP of Marketing, named ‘the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age’ by Business Week and author of five best-selling marketing books including Free Prize Inside, Permission Marketing, Unleashing the Ideavirus, Big Red Fez, Survival is Not Enough and Purple Cow.”

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24th July 2004

How To Sell The Same Startup Twice

“In 1999 the entrepreneurs behind a photo hosting company named Webshots sold their company to Excite@Home for $82.5 million. Not bad. Even better, though, was that a few years later, after Excite@Home went bankrupt, the founders bought Webshots back at an $80 million discount, paying just $2.4 million. That was pretty smart of them… because now, two years later, they’ve flipped the company again, this time to CNET, for $70 million…”

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24th July 2004

Support Economy Ventures

“The Support Economy Ventures Website is an axis for regional Investment Summits concerning the principles of The Support Economy by Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin. The goal to advance investment and identify entrepreneurs building and leading the deep support infrastructure. The intention of Support Economy Ventures is to shape and catalyzes a community of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, deep support professionals and others wanting to† benefit from the next chapter in capitalism.” (Thanks Fact Company Now!)

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24th July 2004

My Favorite PowerPoint Resources

“I donít know about you, but our business runs on PowerPoint. Last Friday, I led a seminar in Atlanta on publishing strategy with a group of 55 foreign publishers. Today, I made a presentation in Boston to some investors attending a ’small cap’†investor conference. I couldnít do either without PowerPoint. Or, if I could, it would be much more difficult and much less interesting… the Web is full of PowerPoint resources. I contend that in less than two hours of surfing, you can radically improve the effectiveness of your PowerPoint presentations. Here is a list of resources to get you started…”

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