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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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00:00:52] MARK: Sure. MARK] I started comp sci. MARK] The thing is, it was 1991 and it was a terrible recession. In a way, I think I was unfortunate to get a job because I really did have these entrepreneurial skills. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. I grew up in Northern California.

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10 Examples of Companies With Fantastic Cultures

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Great benefits and a workplace that is fun and dedicated to making customers happy all fit in with the Zappos approach to company culture — when you get the company culture right, great customer service and a great brand will happen on its own. Takeaway: Zappos hires according to cultural fit first and foremost.

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10 Examples of Companies With Fantastic Cultures

Tech Coast Venture Network

Great benefits and a workplace that is fun and dedicated to making customers happy all fit in with the Zappos approach to company culture — when you get the company culture right, great customer service and a great brand will happen on its own. Takeaway: Zappos hires according to cultural fit first and foremost.

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

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. And so it goes with social networking. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. Does Facebook have a permanent dominance of the future given their 500m users?

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What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management

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During the 2004 election he was accused of having made up material facts from his service in the Vietnam War in an election against somebody who didn’t serve in a war. Understand the Gravity of the Situation for Your Customers. Attacking back makes you both look petty. He’s verbose, often off message and wooden.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Social Networking goes Real Time. The Past (1985-2002). Then came AOL.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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