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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class.

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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

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When it goes public, a company must adopt a raft of policies and measures designed to comply with insider trading rules and tightly control disclosure of financial and other material non-public information that, if disclosed, could significantly alter the total mix of information available to those making investment decisions.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

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This is all thanks to websites designed to bring sellers and buyers together in new ways. As a percentage of total US employment, proprietors have steadily increased every year since 2000. Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over a 1 million employees. Got a cool product idea?

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

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Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. The course is designed to help you create and define a strategic brand identity, so you can build a successful brand. He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

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In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Survey design. What the big studies have shown. Image source ).

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