YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2014

Back in 2007-08, I remember when not a week went by without Twitter going down. When Bebo, the UK social network went down in 2012, users flocked to Twitter to complain. Sony had to suspend the PlayStation network as it investigated the intrusion. by Shankar Ganesh, Marketing Analyst at Freshdesk. A banner ad.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

It also appears that this is another way for Google to place emphasis on creating and using Profile pages – something that likely plays heavily in their plans for a social network of some sort. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

, but the evidence would suggest that repositioning the company as social enterprise software was a master stroke. Our current focus is on creating sticky, super viral applications that help users get more out of Facebook and other social media. 6/15/2008 – Application network of its own apps plus agency business plus ad network.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Build your networking skills, not in a swarmy way, but in a geniune way. If you’re not an extrovert, you may find this option somewhat of a struggle. Building your reputation online might be easier in that case. But to really attract good people, you’ve got to go to various meetups and events as well.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Face.com was founded in 2007 by Gil Hirsch (CEO), Yaniv Taigman (CTO), Moti Sneiberg and Eden Shochat (Eden is also one of Face.com’s investors and today serves as a partner in Gensis). The tagging widget uses faces.detect to automatically place tags on people's faces, and allows users to add names.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

Both of these moved signal a renewed focus on making both Profiles and Places pages more important in their ecosystem and perhaps ultimately in a social network of some sort.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

Matomy - provider of alternative payment solutions for social network applications, online and freemium games, MMOs and other players in the online marketplace. Even a few of the large exits such as Dune Networks did little to improve the Israeli VC funds balance. Carmel Ventures I was on the top spot with 6.6%

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

technologies like social networking, mobile gaming, and interactive advertising, in 2011 new fortunes and legends are being made. social networking hype of 2006-2007. As importantly, because of the rise of global social networking - Facebook now has 300 million non-U.S. Here’s why: 1.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

And don’t get me started on how great of a job Netflix does in creating high switching costs (or “community stickiness”) with all of its great ratings and social networking features. Netflix pioneered many social networking and community features along the way, including ratings and reviews and great collaborative filtering (i.e.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. Apple’s press domination comes as no surprise to anyone. Million Visits in a Day.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. Apple’s press domination comes as no surprise to anyone. Million Visits in a Day.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. Apple’s press domination comes as no surprise to anyone. Million Visits in a Day.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

In January 2007 I had a resolution to lose weight and I didn’t want to do it through some crash diet like Atkins that I felt wasn’t sustainable for me. Social networking meets online personal health management. You need to monitor what you put into your body and your exercise routine.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators. DELL INAUGURATES ISRAELI R&D CENTER, DOUBLES WORKERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

When Twitter first became popular with niche crowds in 2007 it seemed to take hold initially with bloggers. I have started blogging again having taken a hiatus since 2007 (actually, I was initially embargoed by Salesforce.com who didn’t want me blogging after they acquired my company). So what gives? Thank you, Twitter.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I wrote this back in 2007: People hang out in communities (online and offline) because they are pleasant places to be. Think rural village or social network – it is the same for both. Umair’s advice to Twitter, and indeed to the whole of web media, is to focus on the quality of social interaction.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you. Apple must be overwhelmed by people who hate the iPhone service because the AT&T Network is so bad. Facebook. So why is this important for businesses?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2011

Bliscy will help MH increase reach as the acquisition brings MyHeritage family network to 56 million registered users and approximately 762 million profiles, 18 million family trees and 116 million photos. In 2008, MyHeritage.com acquired Kindo.com , a family social networking site from London. by Israel-based MyHeritage.com.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 275

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up. ► 2007. (4). Varieties of Social Networking: FaceBook, LinkedIn. social networking. (1). Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do? PCI DSS Class Thoughts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Social network app developer and ad network. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. Total raised: $56.3mm.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Posted by: Serkan | September 10, 2007 4:44 AM Thanks Serkan - the next post will be up soon. Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 4:46 AM Good read but. Posted by: Darren Stuart | September 10, 2007 4:53 AM What an excellent article! Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 6:28 AM Excellent post! Cant wait for more ;).

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Business minded, agile CIO with strong social networking background. Top CIOs talk Social Networking Usage and Policy. ► 2007. (25). and business transformation. Monday, June 18, 2012.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In 2007, I left my career to become a stay-at-home mom. 30- Social network for ideas. However, as the business grew and stalled, it became clear to me that we didn’t need another social media platform for sharing ideas. Thanks to Eric Nemeth, Eric PR & Marketing ! #6- 6- To challenge me professionally.

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VC Cafe

JULY 24, 2017

It was a social network for the blogger community (later acquired by Yahoo in 2007), which when installed, showed where your visitors come from, what they read and where they go. Social networks offer unprecedented reach. Stats were addictive. I started from a simple visitor counter. Remember MyBlogLog ?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2015

I first heard the cocktail party analogy from marketing guru David Meerman Scott, who used it in his best-seller, “ The New Rules of Marketing & PR “, published in 2007. It immediately clarified for me why social media networks are marketing gold. Imagine walking into a networking party at a hotel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO. This online service got its start in 2007 and has steadily grown in popularity and features. Its founders (Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs) have extensive experience with some of the biggest online properties.

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BeyondVC

MAY 15, 2007

When I had dinner with Gary a few months ago we talked about how the next big opportunity for e-commerce was to weave social networking and blogging tools into the existing infrastructure to directly drive transactions (see excerpt below from an earlier post on social shopping ).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2018

You may have not known that they can also buy passports along with logins and passwords for email providers, mobile carriers, retail stores, social networks, ride sharing sites, streaming sites, stolen dating profiles, and even food delivery sites.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 28, 2016

million businesses in America in 2007, which were owned by women. Social Networking. Let’s face it – women are natural networkers. This is the very reason why husbands rarely ever manage the social calendar. Look out, here comes the female entrepreneur! According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 7.8

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Altgate

JANUARY 17, 2009

I was impressed that FCAT was not just looking into data visualization and manipulation, but also at social networking and communities. The facility is the kind of lab that startups fantasize about. I think FCAT should rent the place out so smaller firms can leverage their investments, but somehow I doubt that will happen.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. By 2015 we see more than 50 million femtocells being shipped annually with WCDMA femtocells making up the bulk of the market,&# Aditya Kaul, of Mobile Networks, ABI Research, said.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. It started in 2007 here in Austin and was founded by my friend Matt Cohen. And in the mid-1980s, that guardian angel was Aldus PageMaker.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

In his day job, he’s the founder and CEO of Likeable Local, a social media software company serving thousands of small businesses, as well as the chairman and co-founder of Likeable Media, an award-winning social media and word-of-mouth marketing agency.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I’ve been obsessed with the notion of email as the ultimate social network for a while. I wrote a post in 2007 titled Social Networks In Obvious Places that catalyzed me to thing harder about this as an investor. Tags: Email microsoft social connector.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 167