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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. Unemployment continues to rise – Unemployment as of September 2009 is 9.7% It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary.
Tech Zulu Event
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
In 2009, when the platform was just under three years old, Nielsen put out a report stating that Twitter had grown 1,382% year-over-year. When the Mars Phoenix found water on Mars in June 2008, they announced it on Twitter. My agency, VaynerMedia , used it heavily as a community management tool in 2009 and 2010.
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SoCal Delicious
MAY 6, 2012
He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009.
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2010
aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." 17, 2009 and before Jan. Third, startups are social.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. The people left standing had a compelling vision to build companies and we backed many in 2009.
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