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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. 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.

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Opportunities for startups in the creator economy

VC Cafe

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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