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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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Social Networks Don’t Automate Personal Contacts

Startup Professionals Musings

Social networking can help, but a large list of online friends and followers is no substitute for a smaller list of personal and ongoing business relationships. As background, I attended several educational institutions both in the US and abroad. Obviously they disseminate a lot of information through these networks.

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Maintaining Contacts is Not Social Networking

Startup Professionals Musings

Gemassmer We all intuitively believe in maintaining personal and business contacts, but most of us don’t do well in this area, despite the advent of social networking. This clearly represents a good education with numerous contacts around the world. Tags: social networking entrepreneur contact info business.

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Why Your Startup is More Likely to Succeed if You’re Authentic and Passionate

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Passion is also the featured heavily in nearly every presentation I give to entrepreneurs or on college campuses or in talks with MBA students. He told me about how he grew up in the projects in NYC with a single mom and even though he had done extraordinary well in school and thus had a great education – those were still his roots.

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

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Colony’s presentation is intriguing (and worth a watch if you have a few minutes) because I love to see when informed people make arguments that are different than you ordinarily hear (and different from my own views). I have some educated guesses. Social networking is peaking. I will cover this in my post.

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6 Ways Tech Startups Are Changing in 2019

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Industry analyst Mary Meeker’s 2018 Internet Trends presentation relies on data gathered across 2017. Online Education Is Up. Entrepreneurs preparing to launch a startup in 2019 should be aware of the latest trends that will guide their successes or failures. People are using the internet to fix their daily problems.

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6 Principles For Building A Winning Business Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities where people relate to, and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. They drive the market, rather than the other way around.

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