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

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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. The Past (1985-2002).

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Startup Founders Should Flip Burgers

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This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. Quick aside: how can VC’s invest in online businesses, digital media, social networks or mobile applications if they don’t actually use the products actively themselves?

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How Do You Reference Check a VC?

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So my first advice is not to rush in the fund raising process. Don’t take my advice, take Eric Clapton’s. My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Not so in venture capital. You’re tied at the hip to your VC.

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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

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Personally, I think it would be pretty awesome if all of the people who subscribe to my weekly newsletter could put $2000 towards supporting the early stage tech ecosystem in NYC. For new fund creation, you essentially have to already be tied into existing networks of capital. scratches bald head]. and now croudfunding sites.

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Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs?

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Even more interesting is that at GRP Partners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! But then the truth sets in.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. Tags: Start-up Advice. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. I was baffled. It was 2007. They were envious. Let me explain.