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About Jolie O'Dell

Jolie O'Dell is ReadWriteWeb's Community Manager and a daily writer. In the past, O'Dell has worked on newspapers, on magazines, for book publishers, for serial entrepreneurs, on startup teams, at advertising and marketing agencies, and for enterprise blogs and websites. O'Dell has a B.A. in Media Studies from Shenandoah University. You can contact Jolie at jolie@readwriteweb.com.

Recent Articles by Jolie O'Dell

  • Why Aren't There More Venture Services Firms? POLL RESULTS

    Last night, we asked folks if they'd rather have cash or services (like marketing, development and HR services) to help their early stage startup grow. While our readers' responses were pretty evenly split, the split between startups that seek capital first far outweigh those that seek to make equity-for-services deals. Also, the number of VC...


  • POLL: What's the Best Way to Support Startups, Services or Cash?

    After wrapping up a panel with a gamut of pro- and anti-VC types at SXSW, I'm left wondering why there aren't more services-oriented startup firms. Let me explain: Most of the time, when a startup goes after venture capital, they're still in the process of building a product and bringing it to market. They need...


  • What Do Social Media Marketers Know About Tech? SURVEY RESULTS

    First, we'd like to thank all 596 survey respondents and the many Open Thread commenters who gave such interesting and valuable feedback in our recent post "Should Social Media Experts Be Required to Know Their Tech?" Over the past couple days, we've been able to put together a decent picture and identify some knowledge gaps...


  • Kiwis to Bring $900M in Bandwidth-Building Cables to New Zealand

    For obvious reasons, we care about what goes on in various parts of the world, particularly New Zealand and other areas that are underserved in terms of Internet access. So, we were quite excited to learn this evening of a new proposal that would give New Zealanders - including a couple RWW staff members -...


  • Open Thread: Why Go to Tech Conferences, Anyway?

    When it comes to tech conferences, the first thing most people think about is the parties. They might think about networking opportunities or learning experiences, but all too often, these are brushed off as mutual admiration societies and redundant, unoriginal chatter. I've heard every critique imaginable about some of the best-known tech conferences tweetmeme_url =...


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