VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Gamestop stock becomes more valuable than Google :-) Just kidding. Social commerce is a thing – Over 76M people in the US will make a purchase via a social network at least once this year (38.4% of US social network users) according to Falcon.io’s 2021 digital marketing trends.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 18, 2012

We want to be a social network. Facebook and LinkedIn are highly profitable free social networks, but I can’t think of any others. Four or five years ago the list of free social networks that were popular but not making money was equally long, but totally different. Let’s say advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2010

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

Mark Jeffrey - Q: “Is it more traditional to do your ESOP (employee stock option plan) before or after your angel or Series A funding?&# I talked about the need to have a restricted stock plan for your earliest employees. The downside is that people need to buy their stock. This is minutes 8-11. Tough, but true.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Since customers also prefer automation, it helps you stay ahead of your operations such as the automatic disappearance of the product from the shelf when it is out of stock. Social network integration, Facebook selling, Facebook ads, Google ads, discount codes, and coupons, and other enticing options are interesting ways to retain customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups. Start in a business domain you know well.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I met with Jeremy years ago when he had a startup that was building a fantasy sports app where you picked players in a stock-market style and their value moved up and down over time. And social networks enabled rapid growth and also the ability to more easily find and play with friends or make new ones.

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David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

We have invented 10 new games to satisfy needs in the stock market that nobody else can satisfy, as confirmed by primary market research. With a unique “like” model and the option to “battle” community and friends, swaag has the simplest, fastest and funnest way to tag photos. StockGaming.com. Welcome to the virtual mall.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2022

Negotiate, or use social networks, which are virtually free. As a founder, you're buying stock with work. Notice the empty offices that are wasting away as you drive down the street? Make them an offer. Need less expensive advertising? Ad revenue is still down as companies right-size marketing budgets. You're an investor too.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2012

Among other things, the new law will allow privately held startups with a fundraising goal of $1 million or less to sell unregistered stock to the public through approved crowdfunding sites. The JOBS Act makes selling stock easier, but that certainly doesn't mean it's a smart move for every startup. Funkenstein" Clinton !

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Up and Running

JULY 18, 2013

Use Social Media And Special Offers. Social networking is an invaluable tool for retailers nowadays. Either way, the possibilities offered by social networking are endless! Not all small retailers have the technological abilities to create an app, nor the time to maintain a multitude of social networking sites.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. They are not alone. A growing number of skeptics are openly talking of a ‘high tech bubble’.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2011

To see how technology can kill a business, compare Blockbuster stock (high of $29 ten years ago and now worth less than 5 cents) with Netflix stock (less than $9 ten years ago and now worth over $250). When possible, make PR investments and keep an active and relevant social network (e.g.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2012

Good article about Facebook’s dual stock class structure & investors – [link]. Facebook IPO, and How to Build a Social Network for $389 – [link]. Pretty good analysis of what Facebook stock is actually worth (when you take out the hype) – [link]. – [link].

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VC Cafe

JUNE 14, 2010

The acquisition extends 888’s reach and market share in the fast growing social networks and smart mobile devices, such as iPhone and Android powered handsets, and leaves us well positioned to take advantage of this growth.”. 888 Holdings is a publicly traded company in the London Stock Exchange (LSE:888).

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Since customers also prefer automation, it helps you stay ahead of your operations such as the automatic disappearance of the product from the shelf when it is out of stock. Social network integration, Facebook selling, Facebook ads, Google ads, discount codes, and coupons, and other enticing options are interesting ways to retain customers.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 1, 2011

In the traditional stock market an index is a small sample of the market that represents the stock market as a whole. Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ).

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

He said that Flickr taught us all about social applications--and gave birth to Web 2.0 The features in Flickr seeded the consumer web gene pool for the following 7 or 8 years--tagging, favoriting, commenting, permalinks direct to content, newsfeeds, social consumption of media, sharing and embedding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups. Start in a business domain you know well.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2018

On the one hand, you have to keep the right supplies in stock at the right prices for your customers. Keeping your inventory stocked at all times is essential. Take stock of inventory. Another key is making sure you take regular stock of your inventory. Have the Drive to Run a Winning Business.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. What You Can Do.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The Pebble Smartwatch itself comes stock with a fairly standard feature set – email, clock, heart rate monitor etc. Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. Problem was, Facebook, Yelp and Groupon were gay enough where a dedicated social network wasn’t entirely necessary.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2008

That being said, investors in Google have high expectations and the stock fell in after hours trading. One note that many in the blogosphere seemed to pick up on is the higher cost of traffic acquisition from partners and the fact that social networking is not delivering results as expected( read Between the Lines for more).

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Transformify

OCTOBER 2, 2018

He has highlighted these areas as: smart contracts, decentralized internet, distributed cloud storage, encrypted messaging, authenticated voting, real estate transactions, trading of stocks, proof of ownership, decentralized markets, and decentralized social networking sites.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2012

The explosion of online social networking continues worldwide, fueled by a recent slew of new niche social networks that range from the sharing of “filtered” snapshots with Instagram , or the social sharing of images with online pinboard Pinterest.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Driven by the return to normalcy in the stock market, at long-last signs of life in the residential and commercial real estate markets, and most excitingly by veritable boom-time conditions in “Web 3.0” technologies like social networking, mobile gaming, and interactive advertising, in 2011 new fortunes and legends are being made.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups. business caution entrepreneur investor startup stock'

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

In-stock status. Social cues to the rescue. In-stock status. Only 15 left in stock. Or, 1 in-stock in the REI store next to your office. I love the nudge they have built-in showing how many in my size are in stock (only one!)…. Social cues to the rescue. Life of current price. Personalization.

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

They called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didn’t replace anything. WhatsApp, recently acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in cash and stock options , challenged traditional Silicon Valley logic. Early on, skeptics questioned, “What problem does it solve?”

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

Some people blame it on Justin Timberlake (playing Sean Parker) in the movie The Social Network, who famously said that one million wasn’t cool, one billion was. I used to think a valuation was kind of like a stock price of a public company. I was wrong.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2020

We paid a small fee and liquidated the remaining stock. One of my first ventures was an online social network allowing high school and college students to connect…no, not Facebook. This taught me a valuable lesson. While filing for a trademark can be expensive with attorneys and (USPTO) fees etc. The key is to not give up.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2022

Snap’s stock plunged 40% last week after Evan Spigel announced the company will miss revenue targets, which raises questions about other ‘advertising powered’ social networks. Big tech (Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple) have implemented a temporary hiring freeze. Notable tech layoffs (source: Protocol ).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

5 Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make with Stock Options – [link]. A Portrait Of Who Uses Social Networks In The US (And How Social Media Affects Our Lives) – [link]. Website Traffic or Conversions: Which Is More Important? – [link]. Website Traffic or Conversions: Which Is More Important?

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