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

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. 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 ). And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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Questions from Hunter #MondayMailbag

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He found me through my blog and I didn''t think he was real. Hunter Walk can''t be any blog commenters real name, can it? I wasn''t sure whether his answers would wind up here or vice versa, but when I thought about it, it turned out I was pretty adamant that my blog is for my voice. I''ve known Hunter Walk for almost a decade.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. This has been a very welcome addition.

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How to Get a VC's Attention at an IRL Event

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A few years ago, I was at Techcrunch Disrupt and this guy taps me on the shoulder as I was chatting in a group. He simply extended a handshake and said: “Hi, sorry to interrupt. My name is Alan. My company is Bread and we make ad creative super easy. I had plenty of time to ask questions and test it all out.

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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

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I doubled down on my efforts, making more calls, writing more content, and networking tirelessly. With his extensive industry experience and visionary leadership, Jordan has established Equifund as a pivotal player in disrupting middle market investment banking. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Innovation Through Crisis

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You can use the time to optimize your owned media, such as social media , newsletter, blogs, or to even start new content channels like webinars and podcasts. Primarily, there are three levels of innovation: incremental, sustaining and disruptive. Disruptive innovation is what most people mean when they say innovation.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. The build “implicit social networks.&# Other deals.