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

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. ecommerce Internet retailing Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Ecommerce Retailing Stitch Fix' It turns out that the majority of the women in our office were rabid fans of the service, and what’s more, so were many of their friends outside of Benchmark.

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5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!)

crowdSPRING Blog

Finally, we work hard to create marketing value in the social media space and work to engender word-of-mouth and the viral effect. In April of 2004 Burger King and their agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky had an insight that led to what was, at the time, the most successful viral effort ever launched by a business: the Subservient Chicken.

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Cause Marketing on Ice

crowdSPRING Blog

Right now, today, appearing in virtually every corner of the the internet you can be find my neighbor’s video along with thousands of others and witness one of the most successful, most impressive viral media campaigns of all time. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). This is about how behemoths adapt to Coase's Theorem now that the Internet is making that a practical consideration. ( I learned this in the technology nuclear winter in 2002, when a 20% cut in IT budgets meant that no (zero, nada) new projects were approved.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Cracking The Code. Tuesday, September 02, 2008. for Lawson?