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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

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Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world.

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

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I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY Neville Clubwala, a Taskrabbit worker in New York City, delivers cupcakes from Butter Lane bakery and champagne, to a recipient who received a promotion. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Thats real money."

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Top 20 U.S. Tech Conferences Every Startup And SMB Should Check Out

YoungUpstarts

By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing. TechCrunch Disrupt NYC. TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. There are many VCs who have been made partner since 2000 and haven’t previously had an exit of their own. I was baffled. It was 2007.