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Social Jibes Predominate

Print This Post Print This Post | 09.17.03 | Stuart | 2 Comments

Stewart Butterfield provides the best one liners from last nights Vlab in Stanford. Many-to-Many: Social Networking for Social Networking

Forgetting the jibes: Tony reported Match would turn $200m at a 70% operating margin. Build it - go viral and VC’s may invest. However, Social Networking is not a business model. Cynthia reinforced a key point. “career data must be owned by the individuals”. My read is this is too easy for the majority of these entrepreneurs to forget.

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  • On 09.17.03 Ross Mayfield's Weblog wrote this:

    MIT/Stanford Venture Lab: Social Networking

    Fun and interesting evening at the VLAB event that begged the question: Social Networking: Is there a business model? I think we answered this question. Duh, yes. Actually, the attention swung to the other side: Social Networking: Is there a

  • On 09.17.03 Ross Mayfield's Weblog wrote this:

    MIT/Stanford Venture Lab: Social Networking

    Fun and interesting evening at the VLAB event that begged the question: Social Networking: Is there a business model? I think we answered this question. Duh, yes. Actually, the attention swung to the other side: Social Networking: Is there a


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