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Is your website broke?
With our new start-up we have tried so many different ways to monetize. Eventually, I asked my friend Rachel if she could pull together top advertisers and we could have a Community Next::Monetize. Some great companies are going to be there: Google, Yahoo!, Myspace, Imeem, Photobucket, Slide, RockYou, Flixster and more… Also, I am looking [...]
Startup Tips: Getting to that first 10,000
This post was written by the great Vincent Lauria on how they grew Lefora.com so fast. So how did Lefora get to 10,000 communities in just 3.5 months? I think it can be broken down into just 3 steps: Solve a Problem Develop alongside a real audience Support the early community . 1. Solve a [...]
How the Top Social Networks got started
It might be unknown to many but the majority of all social networks were started by a spamming of some sorts. link to photo MySpace used their ResponseBase email marketing list of 100 million+ people to send for first users. Facebook spammed all the Harvard email lists to get the first 2,000 users in a [...]
The Silicon Valley Chess Tournament – Cerveza & Chess
Karen and I thought it would be fun to hold the Silicon Valley Chess Tournament to see which startup, venture capitalist and individual is the best in the Valley. The catch is that it’s on cinco de mayo so that means cerveza time. what? The premier tournament for chess in Silicon Valley. Unlimited beer, prizes [...]
Community Next: Next Generation Media
It’s that time of year again. After Karen reached out a few months backed and helped on the successful Community Next Platforms we are putting on Community Next Media. Okdork readers save 15% for the next few days: register here This is a cool event in Los Angeles that will talk about the next generation [...]
Come Party with me on Friday
With the magical coordination of Andrew Chen, Johnny Lam & Karen Hartline the 3rd Community Next is this weekend. We are nearly sold out (3 tickets left) for the Friday developer day (most of top 100 Facebook developers attending + $5,000 iron code off) and Saturday with tons of great platform discussions to come. I [...]
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