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

Both Sides of the Table

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 ). Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. The Present Era. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

When I first got into the industry it was 2007. He pinged me for advice. If we do head South it will take a few weeks or months until the memos to portfolio companies get published and the Powerpoint presentations get sent out. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one. was still a term being bandied about.

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

Craig Cannon [00:09:18] – I thought that was actually a really nice piece of advice that you gave because you interviewed at Yelp twice. ” Jarvis Johnson [00:43:40] – I think that I’m sure I can do some sort of advice or Q and A type thing, but it’s just not where my attention is right now.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). And why my advice to newer VCs would be not to feel bad if you’re missing out on what is perceived as a few hot deals. You need to be very present in these periods of time.

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The Venture Investment Guide: Insights from Enlight Venture’s Yongmin Kim’s Illustrious Career

AsiaTechDaily

An experienced investor, his journey in venture capital began in 2007, a tumultuous period with a global financial crisis. Kim offers invaluable advice to newcomers in the startup investing scene. His experiences, advice, and personal anecdotes serve as guiding lights for both newcomers to the investment scene and early-stage founders.

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Do entrepreneurs really have common character traits?

NZ Entrepreneur

Personality styles – these include models such as DiSC , (Wiley, 2007) Myers and Briggs and our own Circles of Empowerment Interaction Styles at EnQPractice (Geyer, 2013), designed to understand what drives the behavior of individuals. With the possible exception of a select few, they are seldom magically present before we start.

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Favorite Longreads of 2012

abovethecrowd.com

Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalypse (originally published in 2007) is offered as premium content behind the Longreads subscription wall. Friends I know close to Santa Fe confirm that he is not merely present, but also an active and skilled participant. The whole time he is remarkably on message (per Amazon) and remarkably happy.