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

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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.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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Getting on the front cover of the most prominent VC magazine in Europe (was called Tornado Insider). It was 2007. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. But there is nothing that would ever replace the rush of being on the top of the startup emotional curve.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Although a new company, it is already gaining momentum—being featured in European CEO, Playboy, and Da Man Magazine.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Getting on the front cover of the most prominent VC magazine in Europe (was called Tornado Insider). It was 2007. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. But there is nothing that would ever replace the rush of being on the top of the startup emotional curve.

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

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When I first got into the industry it was 2007. Check out the graph below from the Economist magazine. Computing will be an order of magnitude more mobile 10 years from now, changing the way applications are delivered and the way we interact with our real social networks. And Social. Yesterday was a Monday.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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If you ask me, I think it’s one of the companies that has led and will continue to lead the transformation of media from a lethargic print-based (newspapers, magazines) and linear based (TV) format into the most successful digital media brand of the next decade. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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