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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

Quora is quickly becoming my preferred social network to ‘invest’ time in. Google – we are building the world’s 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as being commoditized money losers. There is some info about it here. Instagram – filters!

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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

This would inspire him to start GoodBuzz in 2005, a free web-based peer-to-peer referral network that would allow artists, bands, associations, public organizations, event promoters and organizers to help promote each others’ events. – to promote their campaigns. The African Boy Who Could.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. Social networks become more valuable with more users; consumers’ discounts become larger when more people join the coupon; commerce marketplaces benefit from increasing liquidity, and so forth.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. They are not alone.

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple. Color said that it had six patents pending at the time of its funding, including its ‘elastic’ social.

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How to launch a startup without knowing a line of code

The Next Web

For many startups, this was the secret to massive success : David Quail is a super talented software engineer, with one exit already under his belt. The part that would require the most complex development – the true innovation that no one else does. Can a real person perform these tasks manually?

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How to Find the Right Online Communities

David Teten

The user experience in the big, ungated social networks is getting steadily worse: spam, bots, fake news. Particularly in a time of social distancing, when people can’t meet one another in person. Second, I suggest using some of the search engines for finding online communities: Community-Finder. Software engineers”.