Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2007. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. Here they were in what I thought was one of the most sought after jobs and they almost all told me not to do it. I was baffled.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were. Nigel and Vaugn Caldon , co-founders of BallStar social network for basketball players. Kerry Frank co-founded Comply365 in 2007 with her husband. Nigel Caldon. Kerry Frank , founder of Comply365 digital flight bags for commercial aircraft pilots. Vaughn Caldon.

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Entrepreneur North America Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The firm offers email subscribers a deal-of-the-day coupon at a local business, then encourages them to share it with their social networks. In 2007, they started Mediabank, a business-to-business media-buying technology firm whose platform powers over 40 percent of North American media spend across all media types.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

One of my favorite projects from 2007 was a solar power wetsuit. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three. ► 2010.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Its Ok to Exit a Little Early -StubHub was experiencing great growth and hitting its metrics when Ebay acquired the company in early 2007 It is quite possible that Jeff could have gotten a higher price for the company by waiting, but felt there were a number of benefits to exiting when they did. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 28

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

I lived in a little apartment in New York. Because you think Google 2006, 2007, if you searched for a really niche keyword, like how to write a press release or something, there were some results but there weren’t that many. I think they’re going to start rolling out features to make that a social network.

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SEO Kansas City Kansas Missouri 60

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2007. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. Here they were in what I thought was one of the most sought after jobs and they almost all told me not to do it. I was baffled.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Back to the panel. ► January. (1). ► 2010. (7).

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Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Face.com was founded in 2007 by Gil Hirsch (CEO), Yaniv Taigman (CTO), Moti Sneiberg and Eden Shochat (Eden is also one of Face.com’s investors and today serves as a partner in Gensis). Face.com has offices in Tel Aviv and New York and currently has a headcount of 8.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. However, I am teaching the ELAB and a new experimental course (The Silicon Valley Experience) for the MBA program.

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Silicon Valley San Jose Hockey Stick Venture Capital 35

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007. Maybe, but the thought never even entered our minds. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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VC Cafe

JULY 24, 2017

The list of top blogs in 2005 by Time Magazine is a good snapshot: the hardcore tech blogs were LifeHacker and BoingBoing (both are a bit ‘tired’ but still great) and people flocked to blogs like Overheard in New York and PostSecret. Social networks offer unprecedented reach. Stats were addictive. Remember MyBlogLog ?

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Social Bookmarking Social Network RSS Viral 74

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Total amount raised fell from $7.5 billion to $5.5

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

In his day job, he’s the founder and CEO of Likeable Local, a social media software company serving thousands of small businesses, as well as the chairman and co-founder of Likeable Media, an award-winning social media and word-of-mouth marketing agency.

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San Francisco Charlotte Mexico Social Media 60

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

New York never went through a phase as a suburban startup hub… basically just an urban boom as Silicon Alley 1.0 Google started and is still headquartered in Mountain View, but they opened an office in SF at the end of 2007. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’m not in the e-commerce space, but when I see things like Zappos tagging users as they browse products and then retarget them with ads when their on the new york time, I think “Damn, that’s cool”. talk I gave on social marketing for startups (top right) [link]. The future is going to be hyper personalized and targeted.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. billion in April 2007. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. billion in April 2007. I created {s}hareCLOUD — Private social networks for businesses– with Google in mind.

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San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. But while the network has been able to connect investors with startups, there hasn’t been a way to facilitate the actual transaction online. → Learn More.

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Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70