Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Nolo : Nolo is a fantastic, trusted resource for their free and informative legal information; their website is chock full of accurate and helpful information on everything from bankruptcy to divorce to patents. Pablo : If you need an easy way to create images for social media, check out Pablo. Outsourcing work.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. LPs, coinvestors, and press use these tools, so I work for free for these data vendors to make sure that their data about our activities is correct.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Twitter isn’t really a social network. But Twitter isn’t really a social network. Hootsuite, CoTweet, etc). It’s probably not a huge market though. The popular press frequently lumps Facebook and Twitter together, and in my mind both are essentially media companies.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Sadly, none of her ideas were realized and she ended up selling the town in 1993 and filing for bankruptcy. Shue and a partner created CafeMom, a social networking site for moms to share worries, tips, and stories. Raquel Welch’s line of wigs.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Social media success does not guarantee, business success. Dippin' Dots crossed five million Facebook Fans a couple of days before they filed for bankruptcy in Nov 2011. They were recently rescued from bankruptcy, no not by their Facebook fans. :)). Yet year over year they've continued to lose market share to Coke.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

It was interesting for me to read Fred Wilson’s email bankruptcy blog post this morning. Social networks exacerbate the problem. Are all VC’s just a-hole’s? If you’re interested in that topic have a read of my previous post. I think I’m permanently bankrupt on email with no solution.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Stewart is quite possibly the “grandmaster” of the pivot, having turned two different failed video game companies into, respectively, Flickr (the first image-based social network, which presaged the success of Facebook, Instagram, and Snap) and Slack, the incredibly successful workplace messaging and collaboration service.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

Many others may end up filing for bankruptcy or doing an assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Even the ones that do get to cash flow breakeven, will not likely be in a position where they could pay back the debt. ► January. (1).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. What do you tell somebody in that situation?

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2018

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Image courtesy of Apple. Case Study 4: Apple.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The list below gives some ideas a freelancer could start with: Microsites or freelance marketplaces ; social networks and groups of interest; thematic forums; advertising in local newspapers; online business directories. Developing a strategy and testing which freelance platforms and marketing campaigns bring good results is key.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. What do you tell somebody in that situation?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. Do they invest in funds that are $200-300 million versus $50 million or $500 million.” Determine how to get access to them.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

In three and a half years SuperMac’s market share went from 11% to 68%, as we went from bankruptcy to $150 million in sales. The results spoke for themselves: Not one black-market board ever appeared, and the press was satisfied with our “customer value and product family” explanation.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

One Big Thing could be ecommerce sales orders, the number of leads received, downloads of your product, sign up for trials, people volunteering to protest, donations to your church, new accounts opened for your new social network… anything. Oh, and don’t forget to segment it like crazy. See why this is important? Email marketing works.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. In September 2008 this was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the rippling effect was massive. They had no such motive and no such power. Even Sequoia.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy. Computing will be an order of magnitude more mobile 10 years from now, changing the way applications are delivered and the way we interact with our real social networks. And Social. It was September 2008. The market had tanked. I’m long on payment technologies.

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