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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. Wikipedia was a tremendous invention in the process of knowledge curation, and it was dependent, in turn, on the invention of wikis.

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Introducing FG Press

Feld Thoughts

For example, in 2006, we co-founded Techstars. Shouldn’t the publisher be in the business of helping facilitate these relationships in addition to theoretically curating and producing the content? Ultimately, we realized that the optimal model for what we were doing was Techstars , specifically the Techstars of 2006.

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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. Today, we would add places like Miami and Salt Lake City to that age old debate.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. The curated approach gives advertisers and publishers more comfort in knowing the quality of content they will be amongst. Why do you think Veoh didn’t succeed? (40:30

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The Key to Success? Taking Care of Your Community

Duct Tape Marketing

My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Brian Clark, CEO of Rainmaker Digital , founder of Copyblogger , host of Unemployable , and curator of Further. He and I discuss a whole host of things including how to build a business, how to build a brand, and how to take care of a community.

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Transcript of What Does the Future of Podcasting Look Like?

Duct Tape Marketing

And we added podcasting to it back in 2006. John Jantsch: I imagine back when you started in 2006, half of the trouble was finding somebody that knew what podcasting was. Tom Webster: Yeah, that’s really about all we could measure at 2006, was have you ever heard of it? John Jantsch: Yeah.

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Weekend Fav April Thirty

Duct Tape Marketing

Bag the Web – helps users curate Web content. Even allows for you to set a mile time pace. Verishow – live chat and support tool that also let’s you launch an on the spot web meeting with a site visitor. For any topic, you can create a “bag&# to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web.