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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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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need? How tight is that integration?

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California.

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5 Strategies For Building Winning People Connections

Startup Professionals Musings

We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal. For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC.

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Pinterest Marketing & Technology Firm, HelloSociety Generates $30M In Additional Sales Revenue For Its Clients

Tech Zulu Event

According to Kyla Brennan, founder & CEO of HelloSociety, “Pinterest is undeniably one of the most exciting social networks to emerge recently.”. With 28 Million Users by December 2012 Pinterest commands a huge social network that’s the population of New York City, three and a half times over.

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J.R. Johnson On Critical Mass and Communities

socalTECH

Johnson: Essentially, we built Lunch to be the source of the highest quality user generated content out there, all built on top of our similarity network. It really provides the most relevant reviews, because when you're looking for reviews, you want them from someone very similar to you.

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myShopanion Takes Comparison Shopping Social

Tech Zulu Event

Comparison shopping is great when you are out and about looking for the best deals on a product or even looking for reviews. However, I catch myself wondering about the reviews on occasion. For all I know this could be an intern working for the product maker going around putting up great reviews for a crappy product.