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

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RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. was starting.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Since 2006 I have been lamenting what I see as “the Facebook problem&# – they are trying to lump me into one big social network.

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Shutup And Sell: Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Discuss Religion, Politics Or Sex(ual Orientation)

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A startup leader's primary responsibility is to maximize the return to its stakeholders, which include the company's global and local neighbors, employees, suppliers, customers and investors. A month from now it is unlikely that a supportive customer will drive across town to demonstrate their solidarity with the company.

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The Entrepreneur Thesis

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In 2006, Steven Dietz, a partner at my firm, GRP Partners, had given me $500,000 in a seed in convertible debt when I started my second company, Koral. I know that people prefer to use Twitter as their RSS feed these days but wanted to remind anybody else that you can still get the traditional feed. Closing text.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. With access to billions of mobile impressions and cutting-edge location technology we make sure that your message reaches customers ready to buy what you sell.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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Use possible input ($errSrc, $errMsg, …) from the caller to customize the error page. /requestHandler.php (Warning: untested and simplified code snippets below) /* Initialization */ $serverName = strtolower($_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]); $canonicalServerName = "sebastians-pamphlets.com"; $scheme = "[link] $rootUri = $scheme.$canonicalServerName;

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