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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. If you asked me to build Facebook.com for you, I would quote you $500,000 and nine months of development and design time,” says Schippers.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. So … November 2010 and Facebook has 500 million users. We have been using social networks for 25+ years.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. link] Graham.

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Neuromarketing Ethics: How Far Is Too Far?

ConversionXL

Decades later, in 2002, Dutch marketing professor Ale Smidts coined the term “neuromarketing.” Back in 2010, Ariely and Berns cautioned that the profit motive may incentivize companies to misuse neuromarketing—encouraging them to try to cross from persuasion to manipulation. Are we treating people like people with hopes and desires?

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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

YoungUpstarts

This is all thanks to websites designed to bring sellers and buyers together in new ways. Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over a 1 million employees. Unlike other general-purpose payment APIs, WePay is designed for platforms. Got a cool product idea? Enter the Bottom-Up Economic Revolution.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

May 7, 2010. If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. May 8, 2010 12:54 AM. May 8, 2010 1:00 AM. May 8, 2010 7:55 AM. May 8, 2010 9:55 AM. Anil Dash. A Blog About Making Culture. About Anil Dash.

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