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Which Circle Do You Want To Be In…The Blue One (NHL) or the Red One (TED)?

Eric Greenspan

Both are highly desired places to stand, speak or skate. But the best way to get to either is to focus on what will get you there, not on getting there. TED happened because the need to share great ideas and stories about achievement, wonder, and change, happened. It reminds of the Mark Zuckerberg Facebook story.

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

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And so it goes with social networking. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.