www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

First up today was John Boyd with MeetingWave , a social media platform that caters to university alumni associations and addresses the challenge of helping them create walled-garden professional and social networking groups under their own brand, as opposed to groups within Facebook or LinkedIn. Photo by duchesssa. Discuss.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. Recently, Disney was seen scoping out space in Kendall Square to set up a research lab.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

On April 16, I was in Mumbai doing a live 1M/1M event with TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network (IAN). We also had Pritam Roy present Gomolo.in , a social network and online hangout for movie lovers. It would also help him figure out the audience engagement model of how to make the social network compelling.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

Experiment to see what works for you, but remember that Facebook is a social network and not everyone is sold on this social commerce concept, yet. With evolving technology, notably increased use of smartphones , and social media platforms, online shopping is changing and becoming more social.

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The Next Web

JULY 27, 2013

Are traditional investors really that great when you can leverage your social networks for cash? The manufactured lock-picks snapped too easily, his backers started to turn on him, and soon he was being contacted by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office. What actually happened, however, was a much sadder story.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. Arun Ravi from San Francisco, California, discussed inCircled , a proposed new social network that would be significantly more selective about only involving 'inner circle' friends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Stephane Corlosquet – Massachusetts General Hospital. The web has gone social and is rapidly going semantic. The trend for social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc) is to expose their graph interfaces so new applications can automatically inspect and bring new value to undiscovered social patterns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

Massachusetts and NY states also have high numbers. Get introduced via one of the social networks, or a professional organization, before you approach a VC with a business proposal. Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active. Make a personal connection, directly or indirectly.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

Also, Irit Dabby from Tel-Aviv, Israel, discussed GoodyTag , a neat concept about tagging photos of products differently than you would tag or 'like' a regular link or photo on social media. For instance, she showed Coca Cola as one of the target brands advertising on the GoodyTag network. Boots photo by Northampton Museum. Discuss.

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 1, 2011

2930 (the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act”), a crowdfunding bill that will allow startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Yes, on November 2nd, Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts introduced S.1791 What Should Startups Do?

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 13, 2012

House of Representatives overwhelming passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act , a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook.

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Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 1, 2012

House of Representatives voted 407-17 to pass the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook. May Startups Raise Funds via Crowdfunding?

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network. The Burlington, Massachusetts-based startup provides Drupal-based content management systems.

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