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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. 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?

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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

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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. The Past (1985-2002).

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Trover, A Mobile Location-Based Discovery Network

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Trovers are passionate about sharing the unique things they uncover while exploring their cities or far away places,” says Jason Karas, CEO of Seattle, Washington-based Trover. The idea was first born as an idea among the management team at TravelPost , a community for travel enthusiasts. Trover CEO Jason Karas.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

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It seemed like “all of the big ideas had been done” in technology. This was obviously prior to the Internet and everything that led to: (mobile smartphones, social networks, new payment technologies, etc.). Not just in Silicon Valley but in LA, NY, Seattle and other major tech markets. “ And my fear?

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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So we stayed close to our investment themes of: healthcare, fintech, computer vision, marketing technologies, video game infrastructure, sustainability and applied biology and we have partners that lead each practice area. 40% of our deals are done in Los Angeles but 100% of our deals leverage the LA networks we have built for 25 years.