www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Since public and private sectors are working together to bring more people to the mobile Internet, there is tremendous opportunity for growth in Brazil. in recent years: accelerate smartphone penetration, increasing consumption of online video and social networking, and boosting mobile ad spending, e-commerce, and more.

Brazil 149

Brazil Portugal Silicon Valley Mobile 149

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

It’s the poor quality version of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Attracting angel investment and getting ‘Valley’ respect is. Harness the internet to validate your business idea. Do the same thing on other social networks with advertising platforms, like LinkedIn and Facebook.

Startup 80

Startup Silicon Valley Cofounder Non-Compete 80

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. And many of them view the local government as an irrelevant factor in their business.

Massachusetts 33

Massachusetts Silicon Valley Washington Boston 33

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The PR agency helps the company understand and influence key bloggers, social networks, industry analysts, luminaries, and references. During the Internet bubble, one more function of the marketing department was to “buy” customer loyalty with enormous advertising and promotion spending to create a brand.) Order Here.

Customer Development 225

Customer Development Developer Silicon Valley Customer 225

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising. JS (for web/internet and mobile devices). I been trying it for a while.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Hiring Technical Review 40

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. startupcto

Silicon Valley 46

Silicon Valley Semantic Social Network Cofounder 46

Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

That option involved trying to get a job at a young Silicon Valley company that had just gone public and would, in a few short years, crash and burn, lay off everyone, and quickly fade into oblivion. It was the central node of the consumer Internet industry. In 1995, though, I wasn’t truly network-literate yet.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

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. Facebook estimates they already have 60% of addressable US internet users. That’s the capex (e.g.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer. Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. Older shows might allow a single season.

Video 292

Video Technical Review Advertising Distribution 292

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. The panel was a typical Silicon Valley shmoozefest hosted at a law firm with about 75+ attendees. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2014

Even The Onion has joined the game by launching a parody site – Clickhole – that on the one hand, pokes fun at click-bait, but ultimately, runs monetizes through advertising, just like every other click-bait site. This map reveals exactly where Silicon Valley gets its talent | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/1kLpblq.

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

advertising. networking. The goal is to better understand precisely how they look for jobs, so that you can engineer your approach to advertising opportunities to make your jobs visible to them. Social networking applications (SNAs). Networking. Not logged in. [ log in or register ]. Recruiting Intelligence.

Hiring 57

Hiring Metrics Search Widget 57

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It has many stylistic errors — and a few substantive ones, too — that I would now change having learned more, but I realized that it still provides useful insights for entrepreneurs and startup participants outside of the Greylock network, particularly across three areas of interest: how entrepreneurs should approach the pitch process.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

One of the reasons that Silicon Valley has been so successful at building blitzscaling companies is its “fail fast” mantra, which encourages entrepreneurs to determine whether or not their startup can achieve product-market fit as early in the company’s lifecycle as possible. WHAT LEADS TO PIVOTS? Everyone said, “Oh, that’s crazy.

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. How did Internet Explorer get to be so bad (relative to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox)?

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Silicon Valley’s Disruption Deficit Disorder – [link]. What Startups Can Learn From Watching “The Social Network” – [link]. What is holding back social media investment? Social media critics keep getting it wrong – [link]. 40 Creative Advertisement for Inspiration – [link].

Social Media 90

Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? Create a strong brand, solid social community, sell advertising. I think advertising and intent have to be aligned. The way I do it.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS.

Startup 79

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Here was our experience at IMVU, which I have seen replicated at many other consumer internet startups. In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. In most situations, this fear is misplaced. Thats how to "launch".

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks. To be blunt, find a way to move to Silicon Valley.

Cofounder 66

Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 66

Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

While the hypergrowth of blitzscaling is often synonymous with the latest high-tech startup from Silicon Valley, blitzscaling isn’t limited by geography, industry, or even company size. Customer Loyalty : While customer loyalty lacks the feedback loop of network effects, it can still confer a strong and lasting advantage.

Startup 28

Startup North Dakota Acquisition Europe 28

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. These companies advertise. And Social. I have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. YAHOO BUYS ISRAELI WEB ADVERTISING FIRM DAPPER.

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Firesheep In Wolves’ Clothing: Extension Lets You Hack Into Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily NSFW: Changing the world via Twitter? Calm Down, Hippies: What San Francisco needs to Learn from the Valley Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps?

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply Quora , on March 12, 2011 at 12:54 am said: What are the free software tools and online services one should leverage for an internet start-up just getting started from an idea?… This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms. Thanks for your work. I have lots to go through!

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

I didn’t even get to the use of technology to facilitate hate speech and disinformation—which Silicon Valley libertarians will argue is a “free speech” issue without grasping even the basics of the yelling fire in a crowded theater analogy. More advertisers will feel comfortable spending money on it.

Venture Capital 158

Venture Capital Cap Table Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 158

www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Rundle noted the benefits of designing for the newer class of Internet browsers. As mobile browsers begin to utilise more advanced rendering engines and mobile usage increases as a way to view the real Internet (Im looking at you, iPhone), Flash is becoming resource-intensive and restrictive." An animated section of Vimeo.com.

Web 42

Web Design Startup Flash 42

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Social/Sharing. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. Ad networks. advertising. contextual advertising. Internet trends. Internet TV. Google Groups.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. “There are so many companies in Silicon Valley that have raised $30 million and done absolutely nothing with it.” November 29, 2012.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But I do know that it will form a huge basis of the future of the Internet, how we consume media, how we communicate with friends, how we play games and how we shop. Video will be inextricably linked to the future of the Internet and consumption between PCs, mobile devices and TVs will merge.

Distribution 386

Distribution Audience Video Internet 386