2005 Community Social Network Viral 
YoungUpstarts
JULY 4, 2019
The year was 2015 and my company, Shareability, had already been behind some of the biggest viral hits of the past few years. The resulting video, “Ronaldo in Disguise,” became an immediate viral sensation. Going Viral. There was a time when “viral” simply referred to, well, viruses. The shoot was on.
Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Reddit, a popular website for news and discussion, was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Photo Credit: Jen Wan. Photo Credit: Raven Cobb.
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Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . Congrats! .
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
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. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!
Austin Startup
APRIL 26, 2020
In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). Blockbuster introduced their “End of Late Fees” program on January 1, 2005. The name of the last part?
mashable.com
JULY 10, 2012
Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. social networking. viral video. viral videos. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Open Source Lists.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. For example, if I were pitching LinkedIn’s Series B today with what I now know about successful pitches, the investment thesis would be: Massively valuable properties will be built off networks. There will be different networks for different domains.
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