reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company. Reid Hoffman.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2010

The Internet and social media have totally destroyed the meaning of the word “friend.” Maybe that’s why so many people are hurt or defrauded every day by someone they assumed was their “friend” on the Internet. Tags: Facebook social networks business. So how many friends are enough for people? Marty Zwilling.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2011

The Internet and social media have totally destroyed the meaning of the word “friend” and even changed it from a noun to a verb. Maybe that’s why so many people are hurt or defrauded every day by someone they assumed was their “friend” on the Internet. So how many friends are enough for people?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

SupersonicAds – a dominant leader in virtual currency monetization for online games, virtual worlds and social networks. as in Telecom, Internet, Media and Entertainment), an angel fund led by Ilan Shiloach and Nir Tarlovski among others. Below are the headlines for the week of July 8 2010: Startups of the week.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Lee Odden Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing , a digital marketing agency specializing in strategic internet marketing consulting, training and implementation services including: Content, Search, Email and Social Media Marketing.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

I have been a Dell customer since 2004. None of the other 29 social media folks invited to participate in DellCAP blogged for a prominent media outlet like Fast Company. PR firms are also on the lookout for their clients and troll the Internet. How did this come to be? Dave Gardner: This is a very interesting story, Rajesh.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). conference happened at the end of 2004).

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. Mail, Sports, etc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2014

I produced my first eBook in 2004 or so and now feature ten, including some I’ve licensed from other writers. More In-Person Events – A decade ago, we were under the impression that social media might lead to people less likely to travel to events. Actually, the opposite has happened.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Thin line between life and death of internet service is a number of users. Title: The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush. Title: Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet. A couple of friendly amendments: * Two commenters on a May 2004 blog post, Whither Trepia?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). the analogy of 1.6

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The rapper who brought us “U Can’t Touch This” and “2 Legit 2 Quit” is now trying to give us a new way to look him up on the Internet. Andrew Shue’s mommy blogger network. Shue and a partner created CafeMom, a social networking site for moms to share worries, tips, and stories.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). It’s no longer necessarily just a long-form, audio on format — it’s becoming part of the fabric of the Internet.

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