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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

He figured out quickly that there was a demand for printed tutorials. He said they found some sh*ty online print on demand service who could take credit cards and went from there. A notable site is FaceSmash which sold for $30k the week the movie Social Network came out. You can get more sign-ups using viral techniques.

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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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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. It was just the command shell that demanded backward slashes. If you asked me why, I would throw the ball back in your court and demand you ask my former employer why. It was a choice.

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