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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. A lot of the traffic comes from search. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. echoes Labay’s sentiment: Search habits change. can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” Managers can defy old mind-sets and creatively search for superior solutions.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Since 2002, Insomnia Cookies has grown into a large corporation, with its headquarters located in New York City and 20 branches in college communities across the country. Stanford University computer science grad students Larry Page and Sergy Brin created a search engine called “BackRub” not as a business venture, but as a Ph.D.

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How to Come up with Hundreds of Business Ideas

Up and Running

These don’t have to be big solutions like Google search or Amazon—they could be much smaller. I’ll leave you with one last example: consider GoPro , t he camera company that got started in 2002. Perhaps you’ll even start picking up on how advertisers do the same! The second easiest is to solve problems others have. Very clever.

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Resources for Global Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

One of the fastest is to use Google to search for it. It’s even better if you can make your search specific by including the name of the bank you’re looking for information on. Search results: How do you know if you’re looking at an ad? After you type in your question, you probably get thousands of pages of search results.

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