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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. A FB ad targeted at one person (my wife) - Gabriel Weinberg , May 14, 2010 The other day I gave a presentation with Steve Welch on the use of social media in politics. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. It is to out friend.

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Seed Investments in Insurrection

This is going to be BIG.

Better yet, how confident are you that the investors behind the big social media and content platforms will insist on better polices going forward? How many years did VCs continue to pour money into these companies before there was ever a “what if” board conversation? Was there ever that kind of conversation at the board level?