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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. It started in 2007 here in Austin and was founded by my friend Matt Cohen. And in the mid-1980s, that guardian angel was Aldus PageMaker.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001. Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month. Has 12,000 publishers, 700mm monthly page views and 53mm daily unique visitors.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7

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Groupon Co-Founders to Teach at U of Chicago’s Booth School

Campus Entrepreneurship

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), The firm offers email subscribers a deal-of-the-day coupon at a local business, then encourages them to share it with their social networks. If enough people sign up for it, the offer is good.

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8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career

Software By Rob

has been in recession since December of 2007. Back in 2001 I worked with a consultant who was a developer when times were really good, and a trainer when times were really bad. social network & web portal companies… I have not experienced a slowdown at all. They finally said it – the “R&# word.

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3 KPIs to Track For Your Social Media Success

Duct Tape Marketing

And you could be regularly posting to Facebook and Twitter, but if you’re not measuring how those social networks are working for you, and you’re not testing different approaches to maximize your results, you could be wasting valuable time. Frequency of posts also lead to better engagement, but it depends on the social network.