The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely —a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. . My office at WeWork in Seattle is cool, energizing and complete. Your day is finally here.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). The panel was hosted by Jason Nazar who brought his usual frenetic energy. I think I could summarize the hour by saying, “don’t be a douche.”

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 18, 2010

Each of them connect up to the Gist service that lives in the cloud and connects together all of your contact information, builds an implicit social network based on your email traffic and friends lists, and surfaces a variety of content (including news as well as real-time stuff) for your contacts. So – that’s linkage two for me.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2012

That includes friends, family and all your social network connections." Nobody funds a company if nobody else is funding it, which means your campaign will stand a better chance if you get early contributions from friends and family. "We We know you need to get 30 to 40 percent of your funding from your inner circle," Rubin says.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 12, 2011

On January 5th, he left a friend’s home in Seattle having given away his own home, cars, and possessions and with just a laptop, $10 is cash and a backpack with a few changes of clothing. Over the next two months I donated everything I owned, flew to Seattle, and launched the experiment on January 5, 2011. 3) Inspired Action.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

And some of the most popular social networks (Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr) are image-based, making photos ever more important for online marketing. Jayson DeMers is the founder & CEO of AudienceBloom , a Seattle-based content marketing & social media agency. Donate gift certificates or products as prizes.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The Seattle team would work with me to build the spec and the mockups. We decided to move out of social networking. Author: colinwong Colin Wong is the CEO of Zoecity, a social media company. The KL team would implement them. There was a clear delineation of responsibilities.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times. Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital.

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www.thenameinspector.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Try online social networks. Seattle Interest (14). Seattle skyline header image adapted from a photo by Josh Hallett , shared on Flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Try friends of friends. Try a university with international students. Forget etymology. Orthography (5). Peculiar (7). Phonology (2).

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

As a side note, if you’re interested in applying to TechStars Seattle for this fall, the application page just went live a few days ago and can be found here: [link] It was by far the best decision we’ve made, and I’d highly recommend this route for any early-stage entrepreneurs. an iPad 2 Killer?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco. 10 – Unique Social Network. Our company is unique in taking an industry that has had very little innovation and created a scalable business model that leverages technology. We are able to do that because: 1.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And if you look elsewhere at places like Seattle you see the same pattern; Microsoft may have been built in Redmond, but Amazon and many of the more recent startups like Zillow, Redfin, Zulily, etc are all in Seattle’s downtown core. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago?

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

I also run a small firm that provides CTO level help to start-ups in Los Angeles and Seattle. Reply Craig Tadlock says: November 19, 2009 at 7:31 pm I agree with this article’s logic. We also can bring product and development resources on board to build out initial products and setup engineering systems.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Home About Contact Make It Happen: How to find a Programmer My weekly post on Seattle 2.0. If you attend networking events, you’ve probably met a lot of entrepreneurs with an idea who need a partner to build it. Click Send – Aaron Franklin's Blog From Microsoft to Startup, and Everything In-Between.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

When in fact, if you dig into any audience, there’s almost certainly podcasts that they listen to and YouTube channels that they subscribe to and people they follow on social networks. Hopefully next time I’m out the Seattle way we can meet in real life and have a beer or something of that nature.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Ashish Soni, a professor at the University of Southern California School of Engineering, and the executive director of its Digital Innovation lab, says that in the past many of his graduates would have gone directly to Seattle or San Francisco, but now theyre staying put, getting hired by local start-ups.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. I’m sure some of you are thinking “that’s all great – but I live in the middle of nowhere and none of those resources are available to me.&# To be blunt, find a way to move to Silicon Valley.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

For example, MySpace might have been the best social networking site around for connecting with friends, but the overbearing profiles and flashing backgrounds pushed me away. There are other social networks that look more aesthetically pleasing. More people could learn from that quote. Its very disheartening.

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