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

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The Past (1985-2002). There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. might have been a lot less differentiated. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. We discussed: 1.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

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If you’re an eCommerce site, your category page or your product page is much more likely entrance into your site than them just typing in your domain name. Someone actually answering a phone, answering questions because that’s really going to help differentiate you. They actually come in from interior pages.

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