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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

T ool: Curalate URL: Curalate.com What it does: Monitors and measures traffic from “visual-based platforms”—namely (for now, at least) Pinterest. First Name. Company Name. * Distribution. Mergers and Acquisitions. The breakdown: “Pinterest doesn’t have an open API yet, so data has been pretty limited. Job Function.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

His name is Tomas Pueyo. So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. So it's the first time in my life that I pushed this to all my networks as hard as I could, and I was also very aggressive on the viral mechanics that I plugged into it. He was not a famous author.