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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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In 2007, I left my career to become a stay-at-home mom. Now a full-service agency, lotus823 combines traditional public relations, progressive content marketing, search engine optimization, and social media as well as Amazon marketing and website design for fully integrated strategies. 30- Social network for ideas.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month. This lasted from about 2001-2004.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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It was 2007. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. I was baffled. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, They were envious. Let me explain.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

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Attempts at “moving up the stack&# – In 1997 I led a project to help senior management at British Telecom define its Internet strategy. The created a hegemony that delayed innovation until January 2007 when the iPhone was introduced. It will involve 3d (see Nintendo’s moves , for example).

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2007. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. I was baffled. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, They were envious. Let me explain.