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How to Avoid a Common Product Mistake Many Teams Make

Both Sides of the Table

The owner thinks they are giving you the ability to have anything you want and you are thinking, “oy, vey, can’t you just give me a few well curated options? We built our product at Koral in 2005 with this design philosophy in mind. Think about your experience at a restaurant with too many options.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team. He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). MongoDB at Etsy - Code as Craft , May 19, 2010 Hi! Well, half of it.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

The hardware trend showed that internet connection speeds were increasing, and by 2005, the speed of the connection would be sufficient that we could reasonably stream video in real time without resorting to heroic amounts of video compression or miracles in internet protocols. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #2: What’s in a name?

Austin Startup

We were in Cabo San Lucas in April 2005 using our last few weeks of vacation at Coremetrics before I left to take the plunge to start Bazaarvoice with Brant Barton. You mean that customers can write negative things about the products we’ve curated?! ” only around three retailers had customer reviews on their websites in 2005.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. In 2005, it was a risky bet to join Union Square Ventures and plant my VC career here in NYC.

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Is It Too Late To Start A Podcast?

Duct Tape Marketing

I actually started mine in, in 2005. And that led to us kind of putting together that, you know, curating that community and, and led to a podcast movement as it is today. And like I said, the one thing led to another and we just really enjoyed being creators ourselves and getting no other creators. Dan Franks (11:38): Yeah.

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