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

Both Sides of the Table

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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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

socalTECH

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. That was between 2010 and 2012.

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music's To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

socalTECH

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. That was between 2010 and 2012.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

socalTECH

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. How long has company been around? Michael Kleist: We started in 2010.

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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

Startup Professionals Musings

Allowing your social media efforts to stagnate. Gone are the days when companies could put up a website that sat on the screen like an electronic business card. Social media is about maintaining a dynamic conversation between you and your customers. Many companies believe that getting involved in social media is easy.

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Feel Lost On LinkedIn? ExploreB2B Wants To help You Network With People Of Your Profession

Tech Zulu Event

We launched the first publicly available (German) Beta Version of exploreB2B at the end of 2010. The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. The result was a social platform especially built to serve the needs of Business-to-Business interaction and networking. Who are its founders?

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

Tech Zulu Event

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. How safe are money transfers or online purchases on social networks?