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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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00:00:52] MARK: Sure. MARK] I started comp sci. MARK] The thing is, it was 1991 and it was a terrible recession. In a way, I think I was unfortunate to get a job because I really did have these entrepreneurial skills. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. I grew up in Northern California.

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What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management

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Understand the Gravity of the Situation for Your Customers. The obvious starting points to think to yourself are: Has something happened that fundamentally affects my customers or partners? We learned that from the original “gate.&# If you were hacked and customer passwords were stolen, get the story to your customers ASAP.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Social Networking goes Real Time. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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

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And so it goes with social networking. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Plaxo & LinkedIn.