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Interview: Isaac Garcia of Central Desktop

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Central Desktop was founded in 2005 to provide an easy-to-use, SaaS collaboration solution to the SMB market. You can watch the video below or watch it on YouTube by clicking here : What follows is a summary which paraphrases the interviewee’s responses. For exact quotes, watch the video.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Or, as always, summary notes available below. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 But, in fact, I would rather have an executive summary than a pitch deck. Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. was starting.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. ″, “somebot/2.0″,

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Executive Summary. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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tl;dr summary. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. If you want a comprehensive summary of the industry in this era it’s worth a read: VC Ice Age Part 1 – What Happens When a Market Comes to a Standstill? Summary version? Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Back then there were “email forwards.”

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