crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. While China and Russia are both huge markets, it’s doubtful that their revenue per user will be equal to the revenue per user in Europe or the United States.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

This was especially true as we found some of the best developers to be in Russia and India, therefore splitting the travel. For about a year now, weve been working on a social network for sports fans, FantasySportsMatrix.com. =) Weve found that costs and risk can be minimized significantly if your team can handle the UI in-house.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2013

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. We all know that the success “rules” in Russia are different from the USA, so cross-boundary investments are considered high risk, even if you have operating experience there. Dependent on government regulations. Operations in another country.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2011

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. We all know that the success “rules” in Russia are different from the USA, so cross-boundary investments are considered high risk, even if you have operating experience there. Dependent on government regulations. Operations in another country.

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Gust

JANUARY 6, 2013

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. We all know that the success “rules” in Russia are different from the USA, so cross-boundary investments are considered high risk, even if you have operating experience there. Dependent on government regulations. Operations in another country.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. The app obviously geolocalizes every info and integrates with Facebook and other social networks. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. 114 submissions and a professional logo in less than a week. Total cost: $5000.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Plarium – Multi player games for social networks (Raised Unknown). Kenshoo – Programmatic advertising in search engines and social networks (Raised $65M). MyHeritage – Family tree based social network (Raised $49M). Ctera – Private cloud for corporates (Raised $45M).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2011

Not surprising that more affluent consumers use social networks differently – [link]. Good article on ranking algorithms & inner workings of Yandex (Russia’s Google) – [link]. Good article arguing that cause marketing is worth the risk for brands – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. We all know that the success “rules” in Russia are different from the USA, so cross-boundary investments are considered high risk, even if you have operating experience there. Dependent on government regulations. Operations in another country.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Israelis are one of the world’s leaders in terms of time spent in social networks, only second to Russia. In addition, keep a close eye on where traffic to your website originates (for example, from search engines, social networks or partner sites) and how much is coming from mobile devices.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Israelis are one of the world’s leaders in terms of time spent in social networks, only second to Russia. In addition, keep a close eye on where traffic to your website originates (for example, from search engines, social networks or partner sites) and how much is coming from mobile devices.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Israelis are one of the world’s leaders in terms of time spent in social networks, only second to Russia. In addition, keep a close eye on where traffic to your website originates (for example, from search engines, social networks or partner sites) and how much is coming from mobile devices.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2015

But he’s probably most well-known for The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal which was the book that the movie The Social Network was based on. I can only tell you the title: Once Upon a Time in Russia. It’s a bit of a secret right now.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

There were no social networks, let alone sharing economy then, so it took a while to take off. We had a good product that worked well in France, so we expanded it across Europe between 2011 and 2014, before moving to a more global scale, launching in Russia, Mexico, and India. Back in 2006, that was a very weird concept.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

based in emerging markets: Russia, China, India. social networks (facebook.com, myspace.com – Twitter.com is at #34 and growing rapidly). These are mostly search engines, portals and ecommerce platforms (google.com, yahoo.com, bing.com, amazon.com, ebay.com, msn.com, aol.com etc). com, qq.com, sina.com.cn).

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Caught in between, social media companies try to constructively engage with both the “right” and the “left” domestically while rooting out foreign influences from antagonistic nations like Russia and Iran. Social networks, like all new communications mediums, have tremendous potential for good.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

Intimately involved in resolving major macroeconomic crises in Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Became US Treasury Secretary in 1999. President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006. Until late 2010, served as President Obama’s director of the White House National Economic Council.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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