socalTECH
DECEMBER 28, 2010
For us, it was a big departure from social networking and a new commitment to social entertainment. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? No doubt, it was Facebook and Twitter, which were incredible businesses for 2010.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
.&# This is a direct result of innovation around the iPhone / mobile computing, Facebook / Social Networks and Twitter (as distinct from Social Networks). It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 21, 2011
So resume + directionally-correct social graph = goldmine for recruiting, networking and marketing. It doesn’t strike me as a “social network&# in the way we’ve come to define them. But its focus on solving a real-world problem makes it uniquely valuable to most other social graphs.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
I ran Altavista from 2001 to 2002 in Europe, and came back to the states, doing a lot of consulting between the Dot Com crash and the beginning of social networking. That was the case I think until 2010, when I think something very beautiful happened. I think it all crystallized in 2010 on the Santa Monica promenade.
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 11, 2012
We built a Proof of Concept in 2010, went into closed beta in 2011 and opened up to the public in Dec 2012. Rob and Lance made multiple business trips to the USA and UK in order to understand the offerings and strategy of existing payment providers, social networks, banks and financial service providers.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 24, 2011
I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. billion jump in funding over the same quarter of 2010 with a similar number of deals, so it clearly shows a trend to larger deal sizes for fewer startups. Overall, investors put $7.5 billion to work across 738 financing deals with U.S.
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