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Max MRR: Your growth ceiling

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Buffer Buffer is a popular social media queuing tool and a widely beloved values-first bootstrapped company. Printed from: A Smart Bear [link] © 2007-2025 Jason Cohen @asmartbear ☞ If youre enjoying this, please subscribe and share this article! © 2007-2025 Jason Cohen No Google tracking. No ShitGPT.

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18 Inspirational Career Reinvention Journeys from Successful Entrepreneurs

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In June 2007, I applied to work for a tech startup based out of New York City’s Silicon Alley. Here was the best part: The startup served the performing arts industry and that same summer of 2007, the iPhone was released. Companies started to need this thing called a “social media manager.”

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Specificity: A weapon of mass effectiveness

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© 2007-2025 Jason Cohen ” Write: “Farmers looking for a deal on a new tractor aren’t peeling iPhones out of their Wranglers and thumbing out tweets through work gloves.” In fact that post demonstrates all these techniques!) ☜ Subscribe for more, and Thank you for sharing! No Google tracking. No ShitGPT.

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“I think CEOs that are interested in a future acquisition need to be building relationships or at least awareness with potential buyers at least 2-3 years in advance, especially with strategics. If you’re not on the list, it’s rare for a deal to happen.” Joe Hyrkin on Selling Issuu to Bending Spoons, and More….

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In the 2021 boom, there were 215 tech and media IPOs. When Facebook made it possible for developers to create games and other applications around 2007, they only had about 15-20 million uniques per month and they were struggling to figure out how to really grow. In 2007, it wasnt clear which strategy was correct.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Current round: $8mm in Series B from RRE Ventures (Will Porteous)(lead), SoftBank, Hearst Interactive Media, SV Angel (Ron Conway), Founder Collective.Total raised: $11.5mm.

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Spotting, Nurturing and Mentoring Talent – The Power of Troy Carter

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When Troy and Lady Gaga were introduced the market had been in a free fall from the financial crisis of 2007-09 and Troy had had some setbacks professionally while Lady Gaga was sleeping on her grandmother’s couch in West Virginia, having just been dropped by Def Jam Records. Same with Gaga. “It was a series of inflection points.

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

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It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Products like awe.sm (I’m an investor) will help you manage the efficacy of your social media marketing campaigns. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.