Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Making user adoption incredibly simple and shortening the time to a light going off in the user’s head that they see the value is critical in driving viral adoption. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley. Meebo gained traction because there’s was viral component when users wanted to tell their friend. We then captured this conversation again on camera.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Carpe Diem.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. For example, if I were pitching LinkedIn’s Series B today with what I now know about successful pitches, the investment thesis would be: Massively valuable properties will be built off networks. There will be different networks for different domains.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. I am basically a one-man shop. It sounded fun in the beginning and I had a ton of passion to create this product.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

HW: When you dove into the world of anti-vaxxers you encountered some really interesting conclusions about how extreme groups use social media effectively, and how traditional voices are getting drowned out. HW: Is Silicon Valley now serious about increasing diversity, improving the experience for women in the community?

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 15, 2020

One of the main factors that made my SocialNet journey so challenging was that so many different aspects of it were new and unknown, from the product category (at the time, there was no such thing as social networking) to the fact that it was the first startup for many of the team members, including me. How do I drive viral growth?

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 16, 2008

Serious users are Harvard students , Silicon Valley types who use Facebook for professional networking, young professionals, etc. Serious users vote in primaries, care about privacy , understand the importance of financial planning, and are somewhat hesitant about the exposure of personal information by social networks.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The landing page for Bonds viral, social game, Spymaster. For example, MySpace might have been the best social networking site around for connecting with friends, but the overbearing profiles and flashing backgrounds pushed me away. There are other social networks that look more aesthetically pleasing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

If the viral coefficient is 0.9, In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. Pay attention to your fundamental driver of growth. keep iterating until its 1.1 before you launch. Thats how to "launch".

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 16, 2008

Serious users are Harvard students , Silicon Valley types who use Facebook for professional networking, young professionals, etc. Serious users vote in primaries, care about privacy , understand the importance of financial planning, and are somewhat hesitant about the exposure of personal information by social networks.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

One of the reasons that Silicon Valley has been so successful at building blitzscaling companies is its “fail fast” mantra, which encourages entrepreneurs to determine whether or not their startup can achieve product-market fit as early in the company’s lifecycle as possible. WHAT LEADS TO PIVOTS? Everyone said, “Oh, that’s crazy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I said as much in my post about The Future of Social Networking. The applications for uploading and sharing the photos are obviously more viral and visually compelling. Jeff was obsessed with Instagram at that time as nearly every Silicon Valley VC seemed to be (and still is). “And importantly Web 2.0

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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 ). It’s one of those things that even smart, socially-liberal people fall prey to. They also know how to a/b test images. I hate weightism.

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