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On January 7, 2010, Ultra Light Startups is hosting an expert panel on PR, Branding, and Buzz. After six months of covering and blogging about the various events put on by Ultra Light Startups, I’m now pleased to actively participate and moderate the first Entrepreneur’s Forum of the upcoming new year.
Our panel of experts will [...]

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Michael Lazerow, entrepreneur and founder of Buddy Media, recently spoke about the power of social media sites at the Web 2.0 Conference in New York City. He addressed the implications of Facebook, Google and other social technologies where he says millions of people are having conversations everyday. Lazerow says businesses now have a simple decision, [...]

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Ultra Light Startups presented a Legal Roundtable discussion Tuesday night designed to help entrepreneurs navigate the tricky business of dealing with immigration.
The panel was made up of three attorneys, Andrew Lerner, Jonathan Freedman and Stephen Chin. Freedman and Chin advise entrepreneurs on the legal ins and outs of getting a new company off the ground, [...]

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New Jersey’s Wine Wildman and Social Media Magnate, Gary Vaynerchuk hosts a Video Wine Series on the Internet that snags more than 80,000 viewers per day. His new book “Crush It! – Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion” is gathering momentum across the country.
He hosted a book signing in [...]

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Ultra Light Startups brought together a group of gaming experts Thursday night to discuss how lead generation and virtual economies can help your startup move up to the next level. Nearly 120 Ultra-Lighters were on hand to get a brief glimpse into the world of gaming-economy revenue models.
The panel of business experts included:
Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder [...]

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BBC News was in town Thursday night to feature Ultra Light Startups and its founder Graham Lawlor.
Graham took center stage as Philippa Thomas with the BBC wanted to discover just what it means to be a bootstrapping Ultra Light Startup.
The night capped off with a panel of company founders talking about the importance of customer [...]

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Smule is a California based company, founded in 2008 that makes iPhone applications.  Its biggest hit is called Ocarina, a virtual musical wind instrument (video).  As of December 2008 the application has been downloaded 400,000 times and Smule is set to become a $1 million revenue company in its first year.  This article in Newsweek [...]

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chTONGUEeek is the project of Jeff DeChambeau and Denis Hancock, two writers for the Wikinomics Blog.  In this post they describe the process of conceiving and launching the project for a total budget of $200.  As far as I can tell the content for the site is generated by the founders themselves (as opposed to [...]

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