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Why I’ve Shifted More Attention to Facebook

Both Sides of the Table

I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. In the years 2008-10 it seems most of my high school and college friends discovered Facebook and wanted to say hello. And I noticed how many comments his posts generated and I thought that would be a very useful platform for me.

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What Everyone Should Take Away from Twitter’s 8% Staff Reductions

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We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. Some companies have to go first. Others will follow. But many of us have been there. It’s not fun. But it’s necessary.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. Let’s be honest – the same is true for VC’s.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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Kazuhm is recapturing the capacity in those desktops, creating a commercial grade, distributed computing platform based on that capacity. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. In our years in infrastructure, those computer resources have never been leveraged on the enterprise IT side.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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As President of Game Development and Operations at SGN, a leading cross platform game developer and distributor, Josh Yguado is responsible for development, marketing, and operations for all games. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. Yammer was launched on stage at TechCrunch 50 on September 8, 2008 and won Best in Show.

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Interview with Zac Brandenberg, Meteor Games

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They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. So, we refocused in late 2008 and early 2009, and launched Island Paradise in August of that year. Zac Brandenberg: The company was founded in late 2007 by Adam and Donna Powell. Why the interest in that area?