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The Underwhelmingness of Facebook

This is going to be BIG.

Yet, when I think about its impact on our lives and what it enables people to do, I can''t help but be underwhelmed. Facebook, despite the fact that I use it everyday, is probably the online network I could most easily do without. Facebook used to have network pages where you could explore people you didn''t know.

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Proudly Investing in Businesses that *Get Better* as People Use Actually Them, Not Worse

This is going to be BIG.

Here are a bunch of examples of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures companies getting better at scale: Canary 's explosive growth has enabled it to process more video every second than Youtube, learning patterns in order to make its alert algorithms better. The more people who buy and use it, the smarter it gets.

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The business model of the future

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Second, interaction field companies build a network of interactions, an architecture and governance rules in such as way that enables an entire industry or several industries to solve multiple consumer problems, industry or category problems and societal problems. Fourth, interaction field companies enable sharing of value creation.

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The Business of Who Makes is Changing

This is going to be BIG.

It''s also the same bet that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures made with Makr --that enabling more people to be more creative could be revolutionary. When everyone is a creator--connecting networks like Behance look even more like critical parts of the ecosystem. Venture Capital & Technology'

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How to thwart collaboration overload by working smarter

Entrepreneurs' Organization

These “warm” relationships then prove to be critical when opportunities enable a person who has done this well to see a possibility and mobilize a network. Across all of the work we find people that create energy or enthusiasm in networks is four times the predictor of a high performer.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

Network Up. But the key drivers: un / under-employment, personal & governmental debt, globalization, resource scarcity, transparency & shifting demographics will mean collaborative networks will form throughout our life. I did spend some time in the presentation to how consumption networks will evolve. Prices down.

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Japanese e-commerce enabler AnyMind raises funding in equity, debt for acquisitions

TechCrunch

Japanese commerce enabler AnyMind , which helps brands and influencers’ online operations, has closed a ¥5 billion (approximately $36 million) Series D round on the back of that boost to make additional acquisitions in Japan and globally. AnyMind offers a number of services for brands and online business operators. ”