mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. Unfortunately, none are very focused on Florida (California and New York are the top two destination). Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

Angel Investor 84

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. Unfortunately, none are very focused on Florida (California and New York are the top two destination). Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Dropbox made a great file-sharing product, for instance, but it was their viral marketing campaign that allowed them to cheaply acquire millions of customers. But unless Airbnb agreed to a merger, it had only two options. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Of course not.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.” Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h.

Social Media 40

Social Media Rhode Island Media South Dakota 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&# mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And in that when you do that, within weeks you need to get very, very deep, become an expert in a new discipline without any previous background in it. I explained it to Washington State, because that was ground zero of the United States at the time until it was New York. And so, I first started focusing on the Bay Area.

South Korea 114

South Korea Silicon Valley Sweden Italy 114