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Interview with Shaan Sethi, Jaanuu

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We caught up with co-founder and CEO Shaan Sethi to hear more about the startup, as well as Shaan's journey from investment banking to running an apparel startup. In the early 2000's, I'd worked as a consumer, retail investment banker. There were lots of things we did around investment and acquisitions. What is Jaanuu?

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

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Social Networking in Web 2.0. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? cheap accessible digital hardware].

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

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0, So what changed that ushered in the new era that was officially dubbed Web 2.0? Social Networking in Web 2.0: And importantly Web 2.0

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. My angel investing strategy vs Joshua Schachter - Gabriel Weinberg , May 18, 2010 Joshua Schacter has a great AMA thread on HN about angel investing. they released a new 2.0 Your Process Doesn’t Work. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said.

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Interview with Raph Koster, Metaplace

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We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about the site and the new investment round. There are lots of slick entertainment platforms, but there are none that feel like Web 2.0, The virtual worlds haven't really kept pace on how end user content has driven the growth of the web. He just cold called you?

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

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We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0 Jason Kiesel: I got my start doing consulting work for the past twelve years in the web space. You did find some angel funding, didn't you?

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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She was a morning business anchor for KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco and made frequent appearances as an expert on Internet investments and trends on CNBC, Fox Business News, and CBS. . Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 Leila Chirayath Janah. . Dave McClure. . Paul Grahm.