Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. Russia has evolved in a different direction, with tight information controls and state-run media. Consider the above paragraph versus how this year started. 1/ Social Network Interference. My goodness, where to begin.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Of course you did – it’s all the mainstream media could seem to write about last week after the now infamous twitter tweet about it. We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. When a company has this cleared by the SEC, it is ready to go public. Financing ipo JOBS Act s-1 sec twitter'

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a business lawyer working with startups in technology and digital media every day, I’m fortunate to have a front-row seat as entrepreneurs create value out of thin air. Now all eyes are on the SEC as it adopts regulations to implement the new law with the hope that it won’t get tied up in red tape.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Intellectual Property Accredited Investor 187

Austin Startup

JULY 13, 2010

Together the companies will provide LiveOffice users with the ability to pre-review and route social networking activity through their existing compliance workflow within LiveOffice AdvisorMail, while automating social media policy throughout the entire organization.

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Partner Chad SEC Software Review 54

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2019

Did the former head of the SEC just join your board of directors? These stories get posted and shared to generate the social media love a lonely entrepreneur craves. But flattering media attention too easily shifts focus away from the metrics that matter. You must be the man (or woman)! You’re clearly killing it!

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Valuation Cofounder Metrics SEC 162

YFS Magazine

JUNE 29, 2015

Here’s our weekly link roundup of small business buzz, musings and muchness. A curation of the best small business talk around the web.

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Curation Social Media SEC Media 60

Argona

JULY 28, 2022

1 Short Form Video Is Key With the rise of TikTok, Reels, and just social media in general, people’s attention spans are going down. Making 5-10 minute YouTube videos less appealing in comparison to a 60 sec clip, given how much of a difference the time investment is. #2

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Video SEC Audio Retention 52

BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

NYC has deep enterprise tech : the NYC you imagine that is full of ad tech and media is not the NYC that we see. Dev Sec Ops is the hot topic in security: With the velocity of software development and the reuse of software components, building in security at developer level becomes a must have.

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Cloud Cofounder Portfolio Advisory Board 60

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money. Join a local investment group.

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Networking Accredited Investor Elevator Pitch Entrepreneur 227

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The data in Bizshark ‘s database is compiled from a multitude of sources – including SEC filings, government records, public directory listings, business sites, as well as major news and social media sites – through its proprietary technologies.

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Search Sales Database SEC 191

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Thanks to the SEC, you don't know who's actually fundraising, what kind of performance they have, and you'll never get reached by their marketing. VCs opened up through the use of social media, and people like Jason Calacanis, regardless of what you think of his personality, actively campaigned against the toll takers on the road to capital.

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LP Venture Capital Technical Review Nebraska 97

Transformify

MARCH 22, 2023

The pricing and movements of cryptocurrencies are influenced by many different variables, but social media has grown to be a significant player in these marketplaces. We will look at how social media affects cryptocurrency pricing and market movements in this post.

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Social Media Securities and Exchange Commission Media Software Review 52

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 11, 2022

Maximize Social Media. Social media is king when it comes to improving your digital presence. However, before you join the bandwagon and create an account on every social media platform, you might want to do some research. You can choose to be present on all social media platforms or in only two accounts with solid engagement.

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Social Media SEO SEC Audience 59

Andrew Payne

APRIL 26, 2011

In that spirit, SEC filings are a great source of entrepreneurial case studies, and recently I’ve been reading about Demand Media. Demand Media has a mix of businesses, including a domain name registrar. Can Demand Media make a $20 article fee back in some reasonable period of time?

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Demand Media SEC Algorithm 49

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. The underlying requirement based on those assumptions was an available bandwidth of about 1.6mb/sec, which we would hit in 2005.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

A few years ago this was sort of a novelty… not that many startups were going public and not that many bloggers or mainstream journalists took the time or had familiarity with combing these SEC filings. Twitter Is A Media Business. Despite it’s long-standing protestations, Twitter is indeed a media company.

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IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The SEC is supposed to issue new regulations, but it hasn’t yet. They can’t advertise in the media or announce themselves in large gatherings. The SEC rules about accredited investors and broadcasting investment offerings still apply. Restrictions that started with the great depression are still in place.

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Accredited Investor SEC Equity Finance 73

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

only notified them of potential IP infringement two weeks ago on February 27, 2012 (as described in the lawsuit) and Facebook heard about it through the media rather than in private. Are they, were they, and the SEC were when a few brave souls were warning about Madoff to deaf ears? ’s suit is actually pretty rational.

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IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2014

In the last two years, regulations set by the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) have undergone several changes. General advertising is severely limited, and primary disclosure has to occur on an established “funding portal,” meaning one of the crowdfunding websites we’ve all seen on our social media feeds.

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Accredited Investor Securities and Exchange Commission SEC Equity 88

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

You’d probably go for one of the titans of technology who dominate the business media: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, to name a few. These entrepreneurs, and others like them, have enjoyed such remarkable success that they have obtained celebrity, even legendary status.

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Startup Acquisition Portfolio Venture Capital 182

View from Seed

MARCH 12, 2015

These and other sites amalgamate data from SEC filings, press articles, and self-reported info, and they can help entrepreneurs understand not just what companies a VC invested in but at which round/stage. For example, there is frequently information about a VC firm on sites like CrunchBase and AngelList.

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Term Sheet Cofounder SEC Portfolio 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes.

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Entrepreneur success stories, like Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, are now mainstream media. While the JOBS was signed in April 2012, it did not allow for equity-based Crowdfunding until the SEC approved certain regulations. That’s exciting! Another reason is that we more and more live in an entrepreneurial culture. Here’s why.

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Accredited Investor SEC Equity Viral 89

ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2016

For example, Alex is responsible for paid channel and Shanelle is responsible for social media, but they rarely speak or share insights. Social Media Custom Reports. Social Media Performance Analysis Report. ” In reality, measuring the value of social media is quite straightforward. Conclusion.

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Analytics Customer PPC Metrics 48

www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Meanwhile, SEC filings indicate that Frazier Healthcare and Voyager Capital — both of Seattle — are on the prowl for more money. It’s still the Pacific Northwest, and Dealmaker Media has assembled an eye-opening list of speakers. million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. It appears to be a good time to look.

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Venture Capital Seattle Cofounder Software Engineering 42

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

It allows small businesses to raise $1 million, from a limit of 10% of income or $10,000 from individual investors, without registering their companies with the SEC. The Entrepreneurs Access to Capital Act helps to redress this. The factor takes into account funding, comments, shares and other campaign activity.

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Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Without these two laws (or their equivalent), the social media revolution of the past decade would have been stillborn.

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IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Socialware , the leader in social media compliance and engagement, today announced that it has secured $3 million in additional funding from existing investors, including FLOODGATE, G-51 Capital and Silverton Partners.

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Social Network Chad SEC Social Media 63

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

This is interesting because just 2 years ago many of these businesses were shut down by the SEC. .&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. What interests me is that with the credit crunch we know that credit has tightened significantly for businesses and consumers.

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Venture Capital Social Network Angel Investor Chad 265

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. Read more: SEC S1 Filing (amended 05-03-2010) , peHUB. The biggest question I had was whether this was a feature or a company. Raising $75mm in IPO, values company at $515mm.

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IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

How are you allowing employees to interact with social media? LYONS: We allow them to use social media on their personal devices (laughter). Social networking is governed by SEC 17a4, and SEC hasn’t opined on this. Especially with machine learning techniques. BROWN: Impersonation on social networks is a big problem.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Azure 122

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Once we saw this evidence, we thought, "Wait a sec, we can actually do something about it." Eric Ries : That's a remarkable use of social media. They also did some work showing that you can have very small pieces of molecules that can stop this machinery. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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Artificial Inteligence Open Source Cofounder Design 60

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I mean the media outreach that we've done. 14:19): And in addition, it would be a great networking app, which is also, which also allows students to kind of not just waste mindless hours on social media, but kind of use social media to kind of allow themselves to impact their futures and really kind of create core connections.

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Entrepreneur Massachusetts Distribution Networking 72

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unable to confirm if my proposed approach was correct, he indicated that he would have to check with his SEC group and that ‘someone’ would get back to me. you know of anyone in the social media marketplace that might be able to help? Interview: Mark Douglas, President & CEO, SteelHouse Media. |. John Greathouse.

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Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 40

Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

By getting-out and attending conferences and meet-ups; by blogging; by reading and commenting on other blogs; and by engaging on Twitter and other social media sites. Many entrepreneurs initially reach-out to friends and family as a source of capital. By banging on doors.

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Preferred Stock Angel Investor Entrepreneur Common Stock 45

VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Eyeblaster , an Israeli company headquartered in New York, develops several media-rich advertising formats (see examples here and here ) and interactive ad features , as well as MediaMind , campaign management software for agencies and online advertisers. Eyeblaster is trying to raise $115 million by selling stock.

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IPO SEC Initial Public Offering Stock 68