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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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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). We have a long way to go baby! link] leehower.

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Why Twitter is A Media Company ? AGILEVC

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Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising. And Twitter CRO Adam Bain is focused primarily on growing this advertising base. Twitter’s data is valuable primarily for advertising. Twitter isn’t really a social network. Hootsuite, CoTweet, etc). Author howerl.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

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How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ยป.

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Sign in All Social Media Tech & Gadgets Business & Marketing Video Mobile Dev & Design Media Social Good Startups Classifieds Mashable Infographics Prev Next How Are People Using Twitter? LinkedIn was curious, so the business social network decided to find out. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!