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I'm proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.
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Alumni
Proud
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Relationships are the key element to Press & PR
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Elements
Keys
Presses
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The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
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Entrepreneur
Play Hard
Successful
Entrepreneurs
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Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that's when you lose
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Jobs
Causes
Starting
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If you can't build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.
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Failing
Ifs
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Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.
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Firsts
Journalist
People
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The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up
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Press Release
Release
Writing
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There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.
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Data
Internet
Transmitted
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Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.
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Attention
Giving
Important
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Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.
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Compassion
Difficult Situations
Issues
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Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.
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Educational
Use
World
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Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.
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Confused
Data
Pain
Users
Video
Automatic
Interrupt
Update
Video Game
Windows
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Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.
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Expecting
Fostering
Honest
Partners
Return
Self Sacrifice
Willingness
Brutally
Communities
Enduring
Entrepreneurs
Help Others
Relationships
Requires
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Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.
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Company
Happy Life
Mistake
Philosophy
Staying
Successful
Life Learning World
Mistakes
Beliefs
Embracing
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Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.
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Famous
Beautiful
Data
Google
Based
Choose
Converts
Locations
Page
Tiniest
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The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.
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Space
Technology
Affair
Flying
Moon
Outer Space
Colonies
Costly
Outer
Plain
Regular
Requires
Safely
To The Moon
Transporting
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With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.
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Space
Travel
Earth
Large Scale
Population
Satellites
Space Travel
Stars
Hit
Billion
Booming
Inch
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Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.
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Space
Travel
Connecting
Consistent
Exploration
International
Moon
Orbit
Possibility
Safe
Space Travel
Stations
Space Travel Moon
Beyond
Commercial
Dramatically
Flights
Further
Low
Opens
To The Moon
Transit
Via
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What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.
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Battle
Data
Google
Profitable
Apple
Clearly
Wildly
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More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
Ben Parr / Journalist
Information
May
One Friend
Real
Real Life
Viral
Chain
Facebook
More And More
Posted
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Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.
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Disagree
Done
Feel Better
People
Privacy
Protect
Users
Argue
Facebook
Shared
Whom
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Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.
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Computers
Design
Faith
Complementary
Data
Devices
Dichotomy
Google
Made
Maps
Phones
Tools
Two
Youtube
Apple
Useful
Companies
Other
Placed
Provide
Search
Ship
Web
While
Worships
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Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.
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Space
Ability
Given
Google
Offers
Real
Relevant
Talking
Topics
Trends
Time Moment World
Time Space Moment
Twitter
Any Given Moment
Space Time World
Giant
Space Time Moment
Helped
Metric
Moment
Real Time
Search
Truly
Worked
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