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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. The software was idiot proof.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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 ). asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. Then came AOL.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. Or, as always, summary notes available below. Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up.

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Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning.

Steve Blank

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. It took lots of trial and error, learning by experience and resilience through multiple failures.

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Cannabis Marketing Without Paid Ads: How to Do it Right

Up and Running

Video and voice search. You should also go all-in with your SEO and get ahead of the cannabis marketing game by incorporating videos in your posts. In fact, by 2021, internet traffic will be comprised of 82% video content. Distribute live videos and copy that build cannabis education and the lifestyle.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. Every startup wanted to believe they could get acquired like YouTube for $1.4 To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Clay Collins Founder Of Startup Leadbrite, Pioneer Of The Prelaunch, And Serial Entrepreneur Shares His Story

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Clay Collins is the founder of Leadbrite , the company behind LeadPages and LeadPlayer , two tools that are fast becoming the go-to-standards when it comes to collecting leads online with video and landing pages. Subscribe to the raw RSS feed (Podcasts Only). This interview is epic in terms of how many things Clay talks about.

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