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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

Gust

In 2000, the SEC adopted Regulation FD in response to growing concerns regarding “ selective disclosure.” Compressing 80 years of history into a paragraph, securities regulation here is fundamentally a disclosure-based system. What’s to stop Hastings from disclosing material information via his Twitter account.

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Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book

Duct Tape Marketing

So when Lulu started in 2002, so about 20 years ago, we just celebrated our 20th anniversary. And I think you're right, you touched on the advent of technology surrounding publishing, as well as all the different things you can do now as a self-published author, as it relates to, you know, distribution channels.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. Build systems and processes that enable your team to create and distribute content seamlessly. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right?

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public.

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Playing Startup

View from Seed

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public.

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Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City

Feld Thoughts

I also plan to price it low so it has the potential for broad distribution. Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory.

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