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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

Social media just is: It’s becoming a bit like general chit chat between any group of friends. This year I signed up to a number of email newsletters which provided a haven of curation in my areas of interest. It might also be that my email address is mine, where social media has the who owns this data issue hanging over it.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

Today I’d like to talk about one of my new favourite media formats: Podcasts. The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Recode Media with Peter Kafka by Recode on Apple Podcasts. The second level?—?they’re

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

Today I’d like to talk about one of my new favourite media formats: Podcasts. The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Recode Media with Peter Kafka by Recode on Apple Podcasts. The second level?—?they’re

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. Total Raised: $366mm.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Eve Tokens, The Creative Curator. #3 In the last couple of years as digital marketing has got more complex with social media and content playing an ever larger role I needed a team to help me cover all the bases. We asked ourselves – How can social media and commerce exist in harmony? It is incredible rewarding.

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7 Tips for Building a Strong, Vibrant Network

This is going to be BIG.

By the way, I didn't add social media as a tip because, if you're reading this blog, you probably already use it. I'd say just about everyone in my LinkedIn network , all 2000 of them, are people who I've at least had the equivilant of a 1:1 lunch with. and if you don't understand the value of Twitter, blogging, etc. 1) Be Discerning.