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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. Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? .

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The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer.

Software By Rob

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time). I increased by rate nearly 30% in 3 months due to the amount of work coming my way. 3 Rob on 09.29.09

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. You come there, there’s nothing but a search bar. The search engines have done a wonderful job of really serving that up.

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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. The higher your score, the bigger the discount you’ll receive on your insurance policy come the three month review period. I’ll leave you with one last example: consider GoPro , t he camera company that got started in 2002.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. It was a disaster.

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How to Find 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. The higher your score, the bigger the discount you’ll receive on your insurance policy come the 3 month review period. They’re a camera company that got started in 2002. The second easiest is to solve problems others have. Very clever.