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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Before I try gazing into my crystal ball to see what 2011 will bring for the consumer internet industry, let me first see how I did on last years predictions: 1. Brand advertising starts to move online, boosting premium display, video and social media. Direct Response Advertising becomes ever more efficient.

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6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011

mashable.com

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. World Featured in US & World Featured: Facebook Year End 2011 Awards. 6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011. December 28, 2011 by Sarah Kessler. Trending Stories. dog products ?

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

How would customer interviews work via video? After teaching remotely for the last year, we’ve learned that customer discovery is actually more efficient using video conferencing. For the final Lessons Learned presentation many of the eight teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

We've seen explosive growth in brand pages, types of advertising and other fun ways to monetize this audience. Client posted a video of a soon to be released product on their Facebook brand page. It is a lovely emotional video (really was!). That video got a magnificent number of Likes. Gets more Likes. Newspapers!

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[ADV] Young Entrepreneurs Emerge From ideas.inc Business Challenge 2011

YoungUpstarts

Their interest in innovating assistive equipment for Singapore’s ageing population has gained the team recognition and awards prior to joining ideas.inc Business Challenge 2011, and still hopes to share the benefits of using the Intelligent Walking Frame to more clinics and hospitals.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

If you can’t see the four videos of General Mattis click here for the entire talk. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. If you can’t see the Omniscient 2-minute video click here.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 As of January 2012 consumers were watching 4 BILLION video views per day on YouTube. A decade ago the idea of even watching video online would have been laughable. THAT is disruption.