Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I met with Jeremy years ago when he had a startup that was building a fantasy sports app where you picked players in a stock-market style and their value moved up and down over time. And social networks enabled rapid growth and also the ability to more easily find and play with friends or make new ones.

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David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

We have invented 10 new games to satisfy needs in the stock market that nobody else can satisfy, as confirmed by primary market research. With a unique “like” model and the option to “battle” community and friends, swaag has the simplest, fastest and funnest way to tag photos. StockGaming.com. Welcome to the virtual mall.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2022

Negotiate, or use social networks, which are virtually free. As a founder, you're buying stock with work. Notice the empty offices that are wasting away as you drive down the street? Make them an offer. Need less expensive advertising? Ad revenue is still down as companies right-size marketing budgets. You're an investor too.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2012

Among other things, the new law will allow privately held startups with a fundraising goal of $1 million or less to sell unregistered stock to the public through approved crowdfunding sites. The JOBS Act makes selling stock easier, but that certainly doesn't mean it's a smart move for every startup. Funkenstein" Clinton !

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. They are not alone. A growing number of skeptics are openly talking of a ‘high tech bubble’.

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Up and Running

JULY 18, 2013

Use Social Media And Special Offers. Social networking is an invaluable tool for retailers nowadays. Either way, the possibilities offered by social networking are endless! Not all small retailers have the technological abilities to create an app, nor the time to maintain a multitude of social networking sites.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2011

To see how technology can kill a business, compare Blockbuster stock (high of $29 ten years ago and now worth less than 5 cents) with Netflix stock (less than $9 ten years ago and now worth over $250). When possible, make PR investments and keep an active and relevant social network (e.g.,

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 1, 2011

In the traditional stock market an index is a small sample of the market that represents the stock market as a whole. Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ).

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

He said that Flickr taught us all about social applications--and gave birth to Web 2.0 The features in Flickr seeded the consumer web gene pool for the following 7 or 8 years--tagging, favoriting, commenting, permalinks direct to content, newsfeeds, social consumption of media, sharing and embedding.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2018

On the one hand, you have to keep the right supplies in stock at the right prices for your customers. Keeping your inventory stocked at all times is essential. Take stock of inventory. Another key is making sure you take regular stock of your inventory. Have the Drive to Run a Winning Business.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2008

That being said, investors in Google have high expectations and the stock fell in after hours trading. One note that many in the blogosphere seemed to pick up on is the higher cost of traffic acquisition from partners and the fact that social networking is not delivering results as expected( read Between the Lines for more).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The Pebble Smartwatch itself comes stock with a fairly standard feature set – email, clock, heart rate monitor etc. Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. Problem was, Facebook, Yelp and Groupon were gay enough where a dedicated social network wasn’t entirely necessary.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2012

The explosion of online social networking continues worldwide, fueled by a recent slew of new niche social networks that range from the sharing of “filtered” snapshots with Instagram , or the social sharing of images with online pinboard Pinterest.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Driven by the return to normalcy in the stock market, at long-last signs of life in the residential and commercial real estate markets, and most excitingly by veritable boom-time conditions in “Web 3.0” technologies like social networking, mobile gaming, and interactive advertising, in 2011 new fortunes and legends are being made.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

In-stock status. Social cues to the rescue. In-stock status. Only 15 left in stock. Or, 1 in-stock in the REI store next to your office. I love the nudge they have built-in showing how many in my size are in stock (only one!)…. Social cues to the rescue. Life of current price. Personalization.

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

They called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didn’t replace anything. WhatsApp, recently acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in cash and stock options , challenged traditional Silicon Valley logic. Early on, skeptics questioned, “What problem does it solve?”

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

Some people blame it on Justin Timberlake (playing Sean Parker) in the movie The Social Network, who famously said that one million wasn’t cool, one billion was. I used to think a valuation was kind of like a stock price of a public company. I was wrong.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2020

We paid a small fee and liquidated the remaining stock. One of my first ventures was an online social network allowing high school and college students to connect…no, not Facebook. This taught me a valuable lesson. While filing for a trademark can be expensive with attorneys and (USPTO) fees etc. The key is to not give up.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2022

Snap’s stock plunged 40% last week after Evan Spigel announced the company will miss revenue targets, which raises questions about other ‘advertising powered’ social networks. Big tech (Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple) have implemented a temporary hiring freeze. Notable tech layoffs (source: Protocol ).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

5 Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make with Stock Options – [link]. A Portrait Of Who Uses Social Networks In The US (And How Social Media Affects Our Lives) – [link]. Website Traffic or Conversions: Which Is More Important? – [link]. Website Traffic or Conversions: Which Is More Important?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2015

Grounded in hardcore data-driven research (you can check out the MIT team’s academic articles here ), it distils social, analytical, computational and managerial sciences into a discipline which helps us understand how collective intelligence and social influence works. Marrying Big Data With Social Networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2019

Negotiate, or use social networks, which are virtually free. As a founder, you're buying stock with work. Notice the empty offices that are wasting away as you drive down the street? Make them an offer. Need less expensive advertising? Ad revenue is still down as companies right-size marketing budgets. You're an investor too.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Every startup lawyer is familiar with variations on this theme and can recite cautionary war stories, but the Winklevoss brothers’ dispute with Facebook, made famous in the movie The Social Network , has become the iconic example. Good stuff!

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 18, 2016

For me, Twitter is still the #1 social network because it is (or can be) *truly social*. Usually those reports talk about it’s falling stock price, or even its relative lack of growth in new users. Or really, the fact that it isn’t the trendiest social network any longer. 7 – Shelf-Life.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Each profile should also be consistent with the social network. For example, Mailchimp’s avatars are the same across its social accounts. Ten days after the Dream Crazy campaign that prompted the hashtag #boycottnike, Nike reached an all-time high on the stock exchange and made six billion dollars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. The timing of an IPO is driven heavily by the state of the economy in general and the stock market in particular, in concert with your profitability. Of course, you’re going to have to perform well to make that stock useful in the acquisitions process.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

So let’s take stock: What do we offer? We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. The company has a checkered past, but it was the first corporation in history to issue stock in exchange for capital. Not in my view. Serious talent.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be It's a unique approach, and one we'd love to discuss with entrepreneurs and their investment sources.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

This begs the question: how much time do users spend in Snapchat today compared to other social networks, and how will that number change over time? And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. People still have to eat, work, etc.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. Thanks to Adam Garcia, The Stock Dork ! #20- Thanks to Tiffany Payne, Replace Your Docs ! #9- 9- Discord. Photo Credit: Garrett Hayes. Photo Credit: Teo Vanyo.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This is cutting it as just 12 years after inception, which is even before Amazon and Google’s big stock-market runs in which these three companies have created $1.64 In fact, if just Google, Salesforce and Amazon has stayed private for 12 years (today’s IPO benchmark) an addition $200 billion would have been captured in the private markets!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

My esteemed colleague Ben Horowitz essentially makes four arguments : 1) look at how relatively cheap Apple, Google and Amazon stock is compared to their growth; 2) Major technology cycles tend to be around 25 years long with the bulk of the purchases occurring in the last five-to-ten years. Know when to run. Kenny Rogers – The Gambler.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A volatile stock market and economic recession have since changed much of this thinking. However, they have failed to generate profits and the stock has since sunk to less than $3 per share. Facebook’s stock fell precipitously before the close and the offer was ultimately worth only $741 billion. Low barrier to entry.

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