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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me. What We Saw in 2011…. The list of applications to engage, empower and organize citizens continues to grow, and will be one of the most defining legacies of 2011.

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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Some observations from Bipul Sinha about the internet and media industry in 2011. Year of Social Utilities. With over half a billion users and open graph integration, Facebook is the Internet with social graph at its core. 4. Since the advent of the Internet, media has been abuzz about web-connected living room.

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Why Your Business Isn’t Immune To Online Threats

YoungUpstarts

For now, the strategy should be simple: To properly safeguard your systems, implement quality defense controls through email and web filtering, and routinely educate your workforce. The report also tracked maliciously registered domains and reported 22,831 — by far the most since the first half of 2011 (14,650). eCommerce — 26.2%.

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. You can catch Carmen Benitez and Fetch Plus at the upcoming Echelon 2011. Young Upstarts is a media partner of e27 and Echelon 2011.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above is taken in Takotna, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. More phenomenal photos from 2011 are in the Other section below.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

October 28, 2011. One of the themes that we’ve been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software. I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

May 26, 2011. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.