VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Part of Snaptu’s 17 engineers that comprise the company will be integrated into the giant social-networking firm’s California headquarters as application developers while others will be kept in Israel in what will become its Israeli R&D center. Unemployment fell to 6.1% Unemployment had dropped as low as 5.9%

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Social cues to the rescue. Yes, from 1995! Social cues to the rescue. The last couple of months have not been great for social networks. A minority might believe that the whole social media thing is going to die. Got social nudges? Yes, from 1995! Life of current price. Personalization.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet. The free on line is the digital sampling of the event with the real connection…. It’s about being there. Meaning & Value > Volume.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

This was not so illogical as most companies didn’t even run TCP/IP—they ran proprietary networking protocols such as AppleTalk, Netbios, and SNA. As late as November 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead in which he predicted that the Information Super Highway would rule the future.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more In today’s world, the intersection of cloud computing, mobile devices and social networking replace the bayonet. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. Final thought.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 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. As a side effect, your brand will get a boost, too.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. In the last year, we’ve seen Social Networks enable new forms of peaceful revolution.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2011

Post your blog and photos along with links to your social networks. If you chose not to participate in digital marketing and social media, you are only hurting yourself and your readers. There are millions of people on social networks; they don’t miss you, but you are missing out if you ignore them.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 Sorenson surmises that startup founders do better amid familiar surroundings because social networks are vital when you’re starting a business.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2013

If your company has been relying solely on Facebook and Twitter for social media marketing, it’s time to start using the power of Pinterest to extend the reach of your eCatalog. The main advantage Pinterest offers over other social networking sites is that it is all visual. Kfir Bar-Levav started out as a sales rep in 1995.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. Do the same thing on other social networks with advertising platforms, like LinkedIn and Facebook. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem. That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. You’re solving a problem!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, What I garnered was that many VCs secretly wanted to be entrepreneurs.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more In today’s world, the intersection of cloud computing, mobile devices and social networking replace the bayonet. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. Final thought.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Several years later, Bandon Trails opened in 1995 and the fourth course (Old Macdonald) is scheduled to open by summer 2010. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Once the first course opened, ground was broken on the second (Pacific Dunes). ► January. (1). ► 2010. (7).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 Sorenson surmises that startup founders do better amid familiar surroundings because social networks are vital when you’re starting a business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, What I garnered was that many VCs secretly wanted to be entrepreneurs.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 Sorenson surmises that startup founders do better amid familiar surroundings because social networks are vital when you’re starting a business.

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aweissman.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

As we started to wax nostalgic over the good old days, oh around 1995 or 1996, I felt like maybe we were dipping into sentimental garbage. So here''s to the crazy ones, some of the originals: Bulletin board services - I first dialed into the SonicNet BBS from my apartment on T Street in Washington DC sometime around 1994 or 1995.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2023

15- The Social Network Photo Credit: Samuel Park One movie that motivates me is The Social Network, which tells the story of how Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, built one of the most successful tech companies in the world. #29- Thanks to Paige Arnof-Fenn, Mavens & Moguls ! #15-

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I put up my Bodega Partners web site in 1995 and it served its purpose for a number of years, but I just didnt spend the energy to keep it current and finally just took it down last month. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I remember first using photoshop around 1995 and all I did was cut and paste people’s heads and paste them on other people’s bodies, that made for some very interesting company posters around christmas time, most memorably all the women at work posing in scantily clad outfits for a Lowrider Auto show.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2011

Here are my thoughts: Social networking is primarily about communication and sharing information. That attitude is so 1995. And, people wonder why their approach to social networking doesn’t work? How can you be doing either of these things if your Twitterstream is protected?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

Scott: They built a social network before Mark Zuckerberg was even born. We’ve got a polarized political world online where the social networks, Facebook and the others optimize for polarization because they want to put you into a tribe. Yeah, they’ve created an incredible tribe.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Social games overflow out of Facebook. While the amount of social gaming on other social networks, especially the Asian networks, has significantly increased over the course of the year, the vast majority of social gaming still takes place on Facebook. Real time web usage outpaces business models.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Normally everyone has seen “The Social Network”. His description of the films “The Social Network” (as a modern image) and “Ghostbusters” (as an “old school” image) illustrated entrepreneurs building from the ground up. Rogue Trader – about former derivatives broker Nick Leeson and the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank.

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