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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) How did the site come about? This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook.

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

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networking in Web 1.0. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. In any case, Vusion didn’t quit work out. In the end, it was too late.&#. “It is funny to think what could have happened.&#.

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Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I was watching an episode of Seinfeld and was struck by how dramatically different location-aware mobile phones have made our day-to-day existence. Back in 2004, I was working for the General Motors pension fund, which had been making limited partnership investments in venture capital since the early 1980’s.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. Many merchants are finding that fan pages eliminate the need for web sites, and that clicking like is very much a replacement for filling out a form to get on a mailing list. Customers get a discount and retailers get cash flow.

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s. In 2004, Googling terms like “high tech marketing” and “startup” I discovered “ The Four Steps to The Epiphany ” at Cafépress.com. Finding a repeatable process for startups. More “pay it forward” culture in action.

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3 Website Trends That Customers (and Business Owners) Will Love

Duct Tape Marketing

When it comes to the web – and specifically, websites – there are plenty of trends. Responsive design is simply a way that your site is coded so that the site checks how big of a screen the user has (such as a large monitor, medium-sized tablet, or smaller mobile) and then adjusts how the site looks based on that.