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DECEMBER 5, 2010

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Instead, I wanted to focus on what I knew best — product and editorial strategy.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Facebook didn’t buy the business because the company had no revenues. The vast profits that product produced allowed HP in 2002 to buy Compaq, the leading brand of personal computer at the time. For example, a couple of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley created a company to develop an iPhone social-media app.

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