Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2019

You too can become an influencer through social media, videos and blogs, and people will follow you on what to buy, what causes to support, and who to vote for. Mark Zuckerberg became a major influencer of social networking by first allowing only students from Harvard on his platform, and highlighting the uniqueness of Facebook.

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MARCH 8, 2011

As highlighted in the movie The Social Network , the Winklevoss brothers are embroiled in a protracted lawsuit with Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook. They claim that Mr. Zuckerberg “stole” their idea of creating a social network for the Harvard student community. The Winklevoss Twins Strike Again.

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APRIL 26, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg announced native Instant Articles as a feature update about a year ago and Facebook has been slowly rolling out and improving the product ever since. However, as of today, Instant Articles become available to anybody with a Facebook page and a blog. pic.twitter.com/TB1GTGt9ss. Nick Denton (@nicknotned) March 1, 2016.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The reality, however, of the coexistence between immigrants and their American peers is proving to be a one-sided pursuit, with qualified immigrants struggling to stay in the country to join the companies that they have co-founded. According to the official press release on Senator Moran’s blog. Take the U.S. and Mark Warner (D-Va.)

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many companies to embrace working from home. The company is the first technology company to publicly commit to keeping its remote working policies in place into next year, in an attempt to give employees more clarity on how long they would be working from home.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

We set our sites on our IPO price and then worked back to our current valuation and showed potential employees what we thought they could earn (with all legal caveats) if the company was successful. I’ve said versions of it on this blog before so I hope it’s not too repetitive. I think you will. And I believe it.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

“The vision I’ve always had for Startup Week San Diego is to be the voice of the entrepreneur, and to be building the community and identity to be able to get the resources and help they need to build companies faster,” Neudecker said. Seed founders Allison Long Pettine, Eric Gasser, Kelly Abbott, and Doug Hecht also plan to attend.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

What is the ideal age to start a company? It’s a question that often circulates in the business press and on tech blogs. The headlines from Silicon Valley have conditioned us to think that you need to raise millions of dollars in venture funding to get a company off the ground.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Yes, there is the mythical company you all heard about that walked into Sequoia and had a term sheet 24 hours later. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. Look at what Mark Zuckerberg achieved when he reoriented Facebook around the status update to combat Twitter. I’m sure that happens.

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JULY 13, 2013

Some of my friends who were forced to go into startup companies ended up working for these biotech firms that became huge, and they made a lot of money by not being able to get a job. They mostly went to work for companies doing programming languages. I started the company for all the wrong reasons. I had this path to choose.

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2018

Whether or not social media is healthy for or bodies—or minds—it now influences every aspect of our life, in particular the economy, with companies from Facebook to Snap now worth billions. It’s important to take some time to review a selection of the most. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. haven't raised any money for my companies that required a term sheet (just friends & family money in my first company), and yet I still think it is important for a number of reasons.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? The Present Era.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 1, 2012

The following guest post is from Courtney Englert, Customer Success Intern at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. I have the opportunity to be a part of history.

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MARCH 1, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. As any long-time reader of this humble blog knows, I am an ardent Beatles fan. This is especially true if they are part of a Serial Team and they held a junior role at the prior company.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

As John Greathouse noted in his blog entry, Putting “Trade” Back Into Tradeshows , several years ago, I pulled off a guerilla marketing coup at a large tradeshow by hiring actors to portray monks. The final point was essential, since our contract stated, “ you may not promote your company anywhere outside of your booth on the property.”

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Even as all eyes were on the American Society of Hematology (ASH) conference in downtown San Diego this week, other biotech companies were staying busy. Viracta said Tuesday that it has also entered into a licensing agreement with Salubris (NASDAQ: NK ), a Shenzhen-based company with more. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

The company unveiled another series of measures it’s taking to prevent malefactors, who hide behind false names, from spreading fake and incendiary political stories through the network’s news feed to influence voters. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already announced Friday. presidential election in 2016.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. Virtual Stock Exchange.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

—Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician, said the Zuckerberg-Chan Initiative, a holding company for their Facebook fortune, would invest $3 billion to “cure, prevent, or manage all diseases” by the end of the century. — Ben Fidler contributed to this report.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The company has since purged hundreds of accounts linked to foreign entities. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) has been under pressure to cleanse its pages of fake news since the discovery that Russian-backed agents using false identities tried to sway voters by spreading false and divisive messages during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Members of Congress have been pressuring social media companies to ferret out any Russian-linked entities that may have been using their services to spread fake news or otherwise influence voter opinion, and share their findings with the government. elections heat up.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Lawmakers urged the companies to scour their networks to root out foreign advertisers, trolls and bots; to eliminate messages meant to sow discord among Americans; and banish content the social media companies themselves describe as “vile” and “malicious.”

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2018

In a continuing effort to regain the trust of its disillusioned users, Facebook on Wednesday announced new privacy controls where settings can be made from a central menu, rather than by tunneling through as many as 20 screens.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Critical lawmakers have blasted the big tech companies for failing to detect the Russian influence campaign earlier, for allegedly accepting payments for election ads in rubles, and for allowing a troll farm in St. Petersburg to flood their communications platforms with fake and divisive messages.

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MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

An organization representing venture capital firms filed a federal suit in Washington, DC, on Tuesday accusing Trump Administration officials of unlawfully delaying a program that would have allowed international entrepreneurs to work at companies they founded within the United States.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

We’ve got loads of role models, which includes Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Jack Dorsey, Sean Parker, and Linus Tovald. This includes contents like Videos, Photos, Blog Posts and Forum Threads. An image of the company’s artwork is displayed as the backdrop of our Login/Sign up page.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Orange County alone is home to more than 300 medical device companies with world-renowned leadership in ophthalmic and cardiovascular devices – a far cry from the “silicone” valley that Ms. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. blog comments powered by Disqus. Brown was expecting.

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