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" A critical question to ask when bringing in a new CEO to take the reins of a company you started is: Do you want someone who will maintain company culture or reinvent it? "

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" Amongst high unemployment rates, a competitive job market and a shrinking global economy, the emerging social media industry only continues to grow. "

Ryan Holmes

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Economy

Media

" As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death. "

" Everybody getting a significant exit creates a legacy and creates something that you can pay forward and bootstrap an industry in a substantial way. "

" Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned. "

" It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not. "

" Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible. "

" Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered. "

" I'd love to build a brand, a legacy. "

" For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training. "

" I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what they're doing. "

" As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered. "

" HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space. "

" Although the tech industry is very open to change, many people still have a closed-off mentality where, in the interest of protecting their ideas, they keep them hidden in dark caves. "

" Early in my career, I was involved with engineer-led projects, where designers came in late in the game and were expected to put lipstick on an existing code base. This almost never works. "

" One of the most important principles I've learned is, every so often, just drop everything. Stop racing from one party to the next. "

" Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools. "

" Working with lots of old media clients, I've had a front-row seat on the ascension of new social players and the decline of traditional news outlets. And it's clear to me that old media has an awful lot to learn from social media, in particular in five key areas: relevance, distribution, velocity, monetization, and user experience. "

" Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit. "

Ryan Holmes

Seed

College

" We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare. "

" At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later. "

" Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave it in capable hands and move on. "

" The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one. "

" Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today. "

" Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive. "

" Social media has shaken up the world of sales, with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter offering new ways to hound leads and unprecedented insights into clients. "

" Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club. "

" South America's most populous country, Brazil, is also emerging as one of the region's most social-media savvy. "

" Hammer down product fundamentals first. Make sure you've got something that works before doubling down on promotion and marketing. Create a groundswell of organic support, and only then leverage PR and advertising to spread the word. "

" The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting future for apps that harness social potential for large companies. "

" Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are able to embrace a different approach to talent: recruit locally, identify homegrown prospects and, in a phrase, bring them along for the ride. "