2000 Cost Internet Social Network 
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.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300.
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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. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. These costs are largely fixed.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Carpe Diem. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 5, 2007
However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
APRIL 12, 2010
That may be OK for Twitter — today — but what about the 100 other social-networking-slash-link-sharing networks that didn't survive? In retrospect we say that Google transformed how people find information, and further, how advertising works on the Internet. Ask them about selling intangible benefits.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 15, 2010
So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. it seems that Twitter should have the same Google-like cost advantage. I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Google had huge destination traffic. Enter TweetUp. uh, hello!
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