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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

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No summary of what we did, no easy way for me to recommend my trainer to my friends, and no way for me to easily book the next appointment. After the session, Andy posts a summary to Jenna’s profile with the details of their workout and a few words of advice. Why did you venture into fitness?

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. Summary: Cheap, mobile, social, global, always-on, one-click-purchase =.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. We worked night and weekends, fleshed out the concept, and in July and August of 2008 we launched the product, took on some angel funding, and started the process.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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Executive Summary. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. Tell a friend!

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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That was written in September 2008. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. In September 2008 this was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the rippling effect was massive. In Summary. Even Sequoia.

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

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By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. tl;dr summary. Summary version? And Social. The market had tanked.

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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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