Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. 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 ). And so it goes with social networking.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

A class we produce here at General Assembly called “Intro to the LA Startup Community” , has turned into a series, each time presented by a different prominent person in the startup ecosystem providing a unique perspective on the tech scene in LA. About General Assembly: Back in October 2012, General Assembly arrived in Los Angeles.

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Rustic Canyon Startup Los Angeles Class 74

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

They have a much better presentation than what mine was, which was too broad. Grip was sort of a better social Better Business Bureau, which let people post their complaints and get resolution in public, non-anonymously. That was between 2010 and 2012. It was too head of its time. So, that didn't scale well.

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Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

They have a much better presentation than what mine was, which was too broad. Grip was sort of a better social Better Business Bureau, which let people post their complaints and get resolution in public, non-anonymously. That was between 2010 and 2012. It was too head of its time. So, that didn't scale well.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster.

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