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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Everything).

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10 Startup Red Flags

adamac.blogspot.com

A Large Number of Ex-Employees With social networks like LinkedIn, its easy to get a rough idea of how many people work at a given company. You start hiring a lot of people in sales and marketing to drive revenue, and while you may still be hiring people to do real work, the weight from the top starts to push down on everything else.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.