Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

What Quora has done is wrap social networking around Q&A with the more clever next-gen UX I’ve seen. These people use these networks for a variety of reasons but it relates to: - enjoyment from being a creator rather than just a reader. creation of social status within the organization for having contributed.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs ! The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Seems an obvious fit.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

Sherry Gunther: MyMiniPeeps.com is a unique, online community for kids ages 6-13, which is both a social networking community as well as a game site. In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. They're looking for deeper social networking, and more of a gaming element on sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Entrepreneurs cite family roots, a sense of neighborhood responsibility, existing professional networks, and more.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2009

Los Angeles-based EQAL (www.eqal.com) launched into the online world in 2006 with the creation of the YouTube sensation "lonelygirl15," the fictional video blog of a teenage girl. Miles Beckett: Our company EQAL is a social entertainment company, which means two things. CBS has three prongs--the studio, network, and interactive.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Lahman is also one of the co-founders of JAMDAT Mobile, the immensely successful developer of mobile games, which had an IPO in 2004, and eventually became part of Electronic Arts in 2006. Those are almost like little social networks built around a topic. What's the story behind GOGII?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. What Twitter looked like soon after launch in 2006. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. When you’re the fourth place network, things aren’t going great.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

The reason passwords don't work, is because if you want a stronger password, when a system forces you to use a certain number of characters, or put numbers or special characters into a password, people can use keystroke logging to force themselves into your network or your PC. Forty-seven percent of people still don't use online banking.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

It was the third week of December 2006, and I was involved with a biodiesel company. It's a full-blown, B2B social network. Matthew Graczyk: I started the company in December of 2006, but I knew I wanted a strong finance and operations person, and a strong etch person. It's a problem for ad networks.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

There are tons of social platforms and he does his best to be on as many as possible because there are people who are only do one social network, maybe only twitter, only tumblr, only chive, only facebook or only buzzfeed. He reads all the comments and replies and tries to touch as many people as he can.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. My blog was wiped out. Tempus Fugit.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Quilici is also a member of the board of directors of NeoEdge Networks and a member of Tech Coast Angels. Richard Rosenblatt. Founder and senior writer for GigaOm. Lisa Stone.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. the world’s largest celeb endorsement network). Sizhao “Zao” Yang is currently the COO/co-founder a t BetterWorks , Inc.,

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

I first attended SxSW in 2006, and was blown away. Social Networks and Citizen Commerce: Reinventing Ecommerce. Ben Huh, Cheezburger Network. Walter Knapp, Lijit Networks (www.lijit.com). Entrepreneurism / Monetization freemium, monetization, networks. . Bootstrapping business, Clients, Profitability. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). billion for the site in 2006. The largest video social network, Bebo , purchased for $850 million, was just sold by AOL in a “fire sale,” after it lost half its membership of 10 million users last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn. . $5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech.

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JANUARY 20, 2013

And all of our tech toys, cheap travel, social networks and real-time communications will never replace true human relationships. And this story was written pre Internet, pre smartphone, pre social networks. The single best book ever written on this topic is Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Not I long for it.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things). Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. graph consists of a set of nodes connected by edges.

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