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How to Find the Right Online Communities

David Teten

The user experience in the big, ungated social networks is getting steadily worse: spam, bots, fake news. Particularly in a time of social distancing, when people can’t meet one another in person. Second, I suggest using some of the search engines for finding online communities: Community-Finder. Discord Servers.

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A Guide to Reputation Management: Build an Audience of Superfans

ConversionXL

If we’re a B2B company selling into brick-and-mortar retail environments, and we’re looking to find an audience of retail executives, we’ll start with a simple Google search. Retail Dive is highly relevant and also has a promising presence on networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook. Developing a social media following.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

But we’re also very active in New York, as five of the most recent startups we’ve funded are based in Manhattan (which is 40% of this recent flurry of investments). Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B).

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How I Knew That I Could Bootstrap My Company

YoungUpstarts

Myspace was the largest social networking website in the world. I was working as a software developer in New York City and came upon a recurring problem, having to spend tedious hours coding online forms. Just like I had done, people were searching for a product to help make building forms easier.

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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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Why Your LinkedIn Profile Can Make The Difference in Your Job Search

YoungUpstarts

Not only is the market overflowing with highly qualified individuals, but to complicate matters, the job search and application functions of yesteryear are no longer valid. LinkedIn is the most trusted social network out there, so you should have a name that is cognizant of its professional atmosphere.

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The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

Coworking spaces are a really cool option for a lot of workers that, for whatever reason, don’t really fit in to a traditional office space like startups, telecommuters, small businesses, and especially creatives in search of collaboration. Notable investors in this coworking space include Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman.