Remove 1999 Remove Acquisition Remove B2B Remove Metrics
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How To Suck At Social Media: An Indispensable Guide For Businesses

Occam's Razor

In this post let's look at each Social Network, see what B2B and B2C brands are doing there today, from that draw lessons as to 1. Success Metrics. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. It can be a brand metric, say Likelihood to Recommend.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools.

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

The former includes the Twitters, Facebooks, Linkedins, Tesla Motors of the World and the latter is the 95% of companies (B2B SaaS, Semiconductors, Cap Equipment, Biotech, MedTech, etc) that need to be marketed (Supply Push) by legions of brokers. It is intentional. And I agree with Mike Arrington that what is going on now is different.