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Uber Shuts Down

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Los Angeles-based Uber, the online social networking web site run by former Friendster CEO Scott Sassa, has shut down. Uber developed software used to upload, organize, and share content through a free web site; the site also provided photo galleries, slide shows, videos, and blogs. READ MORE>>

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

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If you get into the best deals it has never been a better time to be a VC or LP, and the best have developed strategies to capture more value Given that the best deals are pushing out their exit dates it means that many firms aren’t seeing as quick of liquidity as they might have 20 years ago. And this is about to grow even faster.”

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This Week’s Keynote Presentations

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In aggregate we have a ton of great developers but we need a better feeding system into our startups. Of course nobody really knows what the future of social networking is and anybody who claimed to know would be a shyster (yes, a little bit too close to my last name for comfort.). Hope to see you!

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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The money slide is the graphic below. The top line is available storage (S), the middle line represents processing power (following Moore’s law) or (P) and the bottom line is the Network (N). In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking.

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

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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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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

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"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. Find out who is good.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. The iPhone was released.