2004 development startup 
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APRIL 19, 2011
I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. Matt is one of the most transparent, focused & honest startup guys you’ll meet. Or read the quick, informative summary below the image!
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 21, 2011
I remember hearing that a New York City venture fund was raising money in 2004 and almost skipping the meeting, because New York wasn’t a viable place to deploy that much capital—it was a small blip in the past. Startup success is a team effort and you can't just have great entrepreneurs. Angels: Focus and pace.
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This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 26, 2011
2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation.
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DECEMBER 5, 2010
Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).
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NOVEMBER 29, 2010
It’s a great topic, his post is well written and given that he’s going through it right now in his startup it’s worth reading his point of view on the topic. Startups often make this mistake. Like everything, I screwed this up in my first startup. I was too much Accenture, not enough Startup.
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JUNE 28, 2010
This lasted from about 2001-2004. It’s basically office space where as a startup you can be located with dozens of other companies at a similar stage to your own. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Current round: $6.0mm in Series-D from existing investors Foundry Group, Boulder Ventures, High Country Venture.
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DECEMBER 5, 2010
Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.
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