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Ryan Holmes

Canadian Businessman

Born: Dec 30, 1974

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I don't know how many times I've turned to Twitter and Facebook to commiserate and celebrate, bounce ideas off of friends, colleagues and other entrepreneurs, and just connect with the wider world outside my office. Ryan Holmes

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Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence. Ryan Holmes

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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

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. Ryan Holmes

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

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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. Ryan Holmes

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It helps to look at branding as a challenge that entrepreneurs spend years perfecting. Ryan Holmes

Challenge Spend Entrepreneurs Perfecting Look Years Helps

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. Ryan Holmes

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

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A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter. Ryan Holmes

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For anyone who devours the web on a daily basis, the biggest problem is too much of a good thing. There's so much extraordinary content - from articles to images, videos and Tweets - that it's almost impossible to keep track of it. Ryan Holmes

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For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized. Ryan Holmes

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

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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. Ryan Holmes

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One thing I would like to see in Vancouver and Canada is something similar to the PayPal mafia. They were all early employees of PayPal. They all had monster exits with PayPal, and they were able to take their winnings and form a syndicate that co-invests. Ryan Holmes

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