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

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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 ). The Past (1985-2002). The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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But a certain amount gets lost in the headlines – especially when not everybody actually heard the video and knows the nuance of the message. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Fair enough. and profits!

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Weve got slides , video , audio and twitter commentary. Read the rest. Expo SF (May.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

May 14, 2009 4:53 AM James Spittal said. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Let me know. It is valuable.

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How Do You Know If Your Copy Is Any Good? (My 4 Step Process For Copy Testing)

ConversionXL

” Peer Review asks 4-6 people to rate copy on a scale of 1-4. Start by asking the group to rate the headline on the 1-4 scale, allowing raters to use decimal points (3.5) Once the change has been made, the new copy undergoes the original 1-4 rating. means you definitely would read on with a high level of interest.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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Michael’s view (full details in the video) is that right now there often aren’t multiple buyers for consumer Internet companies and prices often aren’t what people hope for going into the process. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. 1 party = low price. TechCrunch.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet. project.