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The 12 Strangest Celebrity Businesses

YoungUpstarts

Shue and a partner created CafeMom, a social networking site for moms to share worries, tips, and stories. ” The recording artist now considers himself the “Air Jordan of VitaminWater,” whatever that means. Fiddy started appearing in ads for the brand and even helped create his own flavor: Formula 50.

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6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

Our session looks at the rise of socially enabled platforms that blend commerce with community, where reputations trump credit ratings, and where hyper-distributed service businesses outgrow traditional monolithic suppliers. In 2004, Roo founded we:nited magazine – a youth politics magazine and website. Black from an early age.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Author : Jordan Cooper. A couple of friendly amendments: * Two commenters on a May 2004 blog post, Whither Trepia? In a May 2008 blog post, The Challenges of Location-Based Social Networking , I include a few excerpts from his post-mortem, in which he essentially predicts FourSquare: Most importantly, there was a “location problem”.