article thumbnail

What is social media doing to our youth?

Austin Startup

I joined Facebook in November 2005 and Twitter in November 2009. In both years I was a freshman in high school and college, respectively, and interestingly enough, a freshman at new-age social media. As kids in this “first” social media generation, we really didn’t know what this power meant, and our parents certainly didn’t.

article thumbnail

Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! My advice to startups pitching the media – [link]. The media’s fixation on size (Google+ vs. Facebook) is misguided. Why do we continue to obsess about size?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Manage And Schedule Appointments With TimeCenter

YoungUpstarts

Marie had been running a web development shop nicmar media since 2002, and had developed an online appointment scheduler for two of Sweden’s biggest companies in 2005. TimeCenter is developed by Sweden-based Niclas Marie and Daniel Ellenson. While the applications were very successful, it was never suited for small businesses.

Sweden 150
article thumbnail

30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Reddit, a popular website for news and discussion, was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. WhatsApp became one of the most popular apps for social media by 2014. Photo Credit: Jen Wan.

article thumbnail

There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

This would inspire him to start GoodBuzz in 2005, a free web-based peer-to-peer referral network that would allow artists, bands, associations, public organizations, event promoters and organizers to help promote each others’ events.

Togo 174
article thumbnail

Want to Work for a Startup? 10 Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

mashable.com

Social Media. Social Media. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit. is the largest independent online news site dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2014 Mashable, Inc.

article thumbnail

6 Sweet Spots That Have Sustained Many Great Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation way back in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me." Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great. Helping others achieve their goals.

Startup 362