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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Native mobile apps? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Native mobile apps? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks?

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Are you targeting desktop, tablet, or mobile? Most new sites need to account for mobile delivery – but on the other hand, not every MVP needs both desktop and mobile versions.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. He told me in some combinations of device / OS / network they are crashing 4 times per 100. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? On measurement. Is it 4/1,000?

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