Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. Create a national network of colleges and universities that use the Hacking for Defense Course to provide hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

FitzGerald is the co-founder and CEO of Submittable , a cloud-based submission platform used by thousands of publishers for accepting and curating digital content. But we did eventually raise capital outside Silicon Valley. He lives in Missoula, MT with his wife and two young sons. This is not a great feeling.). in revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 23, 2012

Sprinkled among the travelers were some stand-out personalities that had ample opportunity to shine in the close quarters, including Silicon Valley super angel Dave McClure; Scott Kveton of Urban Airship; Rick Turoczy, curator of the Portland Incubator Experiment and lolcat king Ben Huh, CEO of I Can Haz Cheezburger.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Superbly curated, and Guy Raz is just a pleasure to listen to. The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network on Apple Podcasts. itunes.apple.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

And so they came to this idea if we had a playlist for kids that was really intuitive for them, that we could curate all these different resources so that kids could actually choose how they learn best. Our final webcast of the season was organized in response to intense interest from our community around Lean Startup in education.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. Arun Ravi from San Francisco, California, discussed inCircled , a proposed new social network that would be significantly more selective about only involving 'inner circle' friends.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 23, 2012

Sprinkled among the travelers were some stand-out personalities that had ample opportunity to shine in the close quarters, including Silicon Valley super angel Dave McClure; Scott Kveton of Urban Airship; Rick Turoczy, curator of the Portland Incubator Experiment and lolcat king Ben Huh, CEO of I Can Haz Cheezburger.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 23, 2012

Sprinkled among the travelers were some stand-out personalities that had ample opportunity to shine in the close quarters, including Silicon Valley super angel Dave McClure; Scott Kveton of Urban Airship; Rick Turoczy, curator of the Portland Incubator Experiment and lolcat king Ben Huh, CEO of I Can Haz Cheezburger.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Superbly curated, and Guy Raz is just a pleasure to listen to. The James Altucher Show by Stansberry Radio Network on Apple Podcasts. itunes.apple.com.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Entrepreneurs whom I meet aren’t lazy, but when faced with balancing the needs of a business and spending the time networking with investors, it’s a hard tradeoff. This means that the attendees will be highly curated. She has advised on dozens of startups across Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, China, and Southeast Asia.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. Media companies are amongst the stodgiest "old boy network" environments out there. 25 comments.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

Happy Grasshopper is an e-mail marketing service that assists real estate agents in reaching out to their networks and generating referrals. Next week, we are going to partner with the Indian Angel Network for the strategy roundtable. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

There are lots of celebrities leveraging Twitter to sell their own products or establish e-commerce curation businesses. Twitter isn’t really a social network. But Twitter isn’t really a social network. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Hootsuite, CoTweet, etc).

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Versus something like LinkedIn, which is focused on getting people to invite their colleagues and people that they’re meeting through professional networking. Then what ends up happening is you get this density, you get all these network effects, you get increased engagement, etc. I’ll give a quick example: Lunchclub.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Dan: My question is related to all this talk that I hear in the Silicon Valley about Internet scale. Trying to figure out how the Silicon Valley… again, my last venture was not built here. I started looking at YouTube networks about two and a half years ago. I was in a 10-year company.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 25, 2011

More recently Q&A sites have morphed into a variant of social network where users build profiles and interact with other members and topics by following them and cross posting to Facebook and Twitter. I am most interested in the generalized Q&A communities, not the expert networks. Search and Q&A are Different.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

“Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the problems in public service were even more challenging and rewarding. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.”

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Spend 20% of your time building a network of advisors that can help you. Warning: Typos, run-on sentences, and crappy formatting.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

“Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the problems in public service were even more challenging and rewarding. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.”

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davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One stupid thing you could do would be to move to Silicon Valley. I think we all are frustrated with the constant barrage of networking events and the people who want to “be seen&# at them. So, instead of going to generic networking events, think about ways you can “engineer the context&# of the event.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

I’ve written before about why I believe most Hollywood online video startups don’t get the future (and why most Silicon Valley startups don’t get online video ). They have a curator. And he has curated many stories. They also know how to a/b test images. As a result of 1, 2 & 3 I clicked.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The East London area of Shoreditch, near old street is now known as “ Silicon Roundabout ” the UK’s rival to California’s Silicon Valley, which started as a government effort to rejuvenate East London, the traditionally poorer part of the city, before the Olympics. Share/Bookmark.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The East London area of Shoreditch, near old street is now known as “ Silicon Roundabout ” the UK’s rival to California’s Silicon Valley, which started as a government effort to rejuvenate East London, the traditionally poorer part of the city, before the Olympics. Share/Bookmark.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 10, 2017

The SXSW Conference is a melting pot opportunity for global professionals at each level to network, interact and learn about what’s next in the world of culture, technology and entertainment. Top brands such as Samsung, Spotify and Bud Light have decided to do highly curated private events for rising cost, cluttered marketing and budget cuts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Ross and I will be speaking at South by Southwest again this year and hope that you’ll join us there for our talk titled “ Third Coast: How to Be a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley.&# Presented by John Gruber of Daring Fireball and Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and The Deck Network. A must attend event!

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Just give you an example, Reid, I know you know this, we geek out on this, GAN: generative adversarial network. This is a multiple of a name for a really exciting neural network technology that can generate images, speeches, texts. Of course it can be used for creative usages for generating training data. So there are several buckets.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Just give you an example, Reid, I know you know this, we geek out on this, GAN: generative adversarial network. This is a multiple of a name for a really exciting neural network technology that can generate images, speeches, texts. Of course it can be used for creative usages for generating training data. So there are several buckets.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. A bit like Silicon Valley. While Topshop have opened in Nordstrom. It was anti-social in nature.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network.

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