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What happens when a celebrity tastemaker tweets about a product? What is average celebrity tweet CTR? What countries do their followers live in? Given that we’ve spent many months in “stealth mode” building Swagsy, we were eager to find out. Swagsy is a socially driven marketplace where tastemakers can share their favorite products and their fans [...]
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I think a lot of would be entrepreneurs have a glorified view of venture capital fundraising. That you come up with a great idea and somehow go into a meeting, pitch, and get a check. It may have very well happened like that at the peak of the dot com boom, but based on our [...]
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After cleaning up a couple more gold medals last week in London in the 100 & 200 meter races – both of which he also dominated in Beijing in 2008 – Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has further solidified his place as “The Fastest Man Alive”. We recently did a post about the value of a [...]
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With the political grandstanding around eliminating the taxes owed by US Olympians who win medals at the games, we got to wondering exactly how much a gold medal is really worth to its winner. The medal itself is approximately 400 grams of gold, equating to $620.82 in the current market. But the long term value [...]
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Check out this great infographic from the guys at Visual.ly. They measured Lady Gaga’s social influence to see how far it could reach if Twitter’s community were large enough.
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No one on the corner has swagger like us. Or so explained Jay-Z, Kanye, Weezy and TI on their smash hit, which took one line from female rapper M-I-A’s “Paper Planes” and turned it into the highest chart debut even the great Hova has ever had (according to Wikipedia, at least). Other than the seemingly [...]