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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. ” That always stuck with me. That seems very Brad to me.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally.

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Comments are the New Black

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When I sent out 300 invites in early 2006 people thought I was crazy. At the time I proclaimed Facebook the new LinkedIn because you could do so much more and people were actually communicating rather than just having static links. As Fred Wilson pointed out, there is a community that forms on blogs. Powerful stuff.

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How Has Product Hunt Become Such a Critical Startup Website?

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It reminds me a lot of how TechCrunch felt in 2006. I strong showing on TechCrunch created initial product demand and if you could sustain that it led to buzz overall in the tech community. Another highly important factor in the success of Product Hunt is the community itself. What actually works on Product Hunt ?

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How AT&T is Supporting Small Businesses

Smart Hustle Magazine

Also, think about the outreach that these places of worship have in their communities: How do you do it? Think about the senior living environment: One thing that you don't want to have are strangers coming into the senior living community that don't live there. Christensen at Harvard Business School in 2006.

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My First 16: Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury’s Immad Akhund

Andreessen Horowitz

When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. And we really focused on going to the startup community, the people I understand and they tend to care about product. Lastly, we were targeting this fairly tight knit community, right? We’d love to hear any advice that you have for early founders.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So Is that when it became big?