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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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How to Launch Your Startup Without a Launch

This is going to be BIG.

Talk about everyone else but yourselfbecause they all have networks, communities and followings. By spotlighting them in collaborations, youre able to borrow from their networks and gain like-minded followers of those folks that you share values with. Instead, talk about your customers, your inspirations, and the people you learn from.

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Solving for Banner Blindness. Solve Media.

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Solve Media is that. In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. So the debate in the print media world is whether or not to insert a paywall between users and content. But is there a better way?

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Should You Really Sit on Other Boards When You’re a Startup Founder?

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I recently read Brad Feld’s thought provoking piece encouraging founders to sit on the board of another startup company. But for now, the summary is: You’ll extend your network. . You’ll be on the other side of the financing discussions (a board member, rather than the CEO). . Not two, not three – just one.”

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already. We didn’t hire a recruiting firm – it was always going to come from our network.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

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Getting suppliers to accept terms that they said they never normally agree, getting accepted to speak on a panel when the conference organizer initially said “no,&# getting people to moonlight for you until you have the cash to bring them on board. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events.