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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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5 Forgotten Offline Marketing Tactics

Duct Tape Marketing

Guerrilla marketing is a generic term for the use of unconventional marketing strategies, and because online marketing channels are so narrowly structured, offline is the best arena to flex your small business’s guerrilla marketing muscle. So, starting now, ignore what you know about marketing channels, and let your inner child out to play.

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Transcript of Honest Startup Advice From Somebody Who’s Been Through It

Duct Tape Marketing

So I tell people to pick a marketing channel that they personally like. If you have a great answer to that question and the first one, the third thing is you need to pick channels where your audience actually pays attention. If you hate SEO, you hate content marketing, fine. Go for ads or PR or something else.

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Can A Startup Do Offshore Development? Part 3

prosperati.com

The Seattle team would work with me to build the spec and the mockups. We decided to move out of social networking. This process of evolution involves both official and unofficial channels of collaboration. Official channels are scheduled group meetings, presentations and brainstorming sessions.

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

Ashish Soni, a professor at the University of Southern California School of Engineering, and the executive director of its Digital Innovation lab, says that in the past many of his graduates would have gone directly to Seattle or San Francisco, but now theyre staying put, getting hired by local start-ups. Most Popular. Nokia cuts U.S.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And if you look elsewhere at places like Seattle you see the same pattern; Microsoft may have been built in Redmond, but Amazon and many of the more recent startups like Zillow, Redfin, Zulily, etc are all in Seattle’s downtown core. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago?

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Channel your Inner VC to Understand Startup Valuations

www.currentlyobsessed.com

Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital.