Comments for SocialStartups.com http://www.socialstartups.com All that's new in the social computing space. Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:44:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on What happened to iLike? by Randy Crossette http://www.socialstartups.com/2009/08/18/what-happened-to-ilike/comment-page-1/#comment-1698 Randy Crossette Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:44:37 +0000 http://www.socialstartups.com/2009/08/18/what-happened-to-ilike/#comment-1698 Why is no one talking about all the people who had music and videos stored on Ilike.com who just got royally screwed over to wake up one day and find that their artist pages are all deleted and all that materials is lost for those of us who can't just Re upload a million songs and videos....Talk about treating customers badly. I for one will not only now not upload anything to Myspace but will delete even the most basic profile I had with My space. Thanks for nothing! Randy Crossette http://www.ilike.com/artist/Randy+Crossette Why is no one talking about all the people who had music and videos stored on Ilike.com who just got royally screwed over to wake up one day and find that their artist pages are all deleted and all that materials is lost for those of us who can’t just Re upload a million songs and videos….Talk about treating customers badly. I for one will not only now not upload anything to Myspace but will delete even the most basic profile I had with My space. Thanks for nothing!

Randy Crossette http://www.ilike.com/artist/Randy+Crossette

]]> Comment on Revisiting a Start-Up by Aman http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/05/12/revisiting-a-start-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1697 Aman Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:58:28 +0000 http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/05/12/revisiting-a-start-up/#comment-1697 MaheshAt the same time, you have eexpmlas like Google and Yahoo, founders arent the CEOs (well! Yahoo is a tempy situation rgt now)I dont think founders make a good ceo..they are too obsessed with their product..while ceo needs to bring in lot more skillsets than the founders MaheshAt the same time, you have eexpmlas like Google and Yahoo, founders arent the CEOs (well! Yahoo is a tempy situation rgt now)I dont think founders make a good ceo..they are too obsessed with their product..while ceo needs to bring in lot more skillsets than the founders

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]]> Comment on Tumblr as one giant human relevancy filter and how e-commerce might save them by dlifson http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/11/24/tumblr-as-one-giant-human-relevancy-filter-and-how-e-commerce-might-save-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1671 dlifson Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:18:58 +0000 http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/11/24/tumblr-as-one-giant-human-relevancy-filter/#comment-1671 It's in the post.. (100M users per month) * (3% will buy something) * ($15 per item) * (5% goes to Tumblr) = $2.25M / mo, which is $27M / year. If you add in sales of premium themes, promotional placement (of posts or of users), future projected growth, it's possible that they could reach $40-50M. It’s in the post.. (100M users per month) * (3% will buy something) * ($15 per item) * (5% goes to Tumblr) = $2.25M / mo, which is $27M / year. If you add in sales of premium themes, promotional placement (of posts or of users), future projected growth, it’s possible that they could reach $40-50M.

]]> Comment on Tumblr as one giant human relevancy filter and how e-commerce might save them by Freddie Forrester http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/11/24/tumblr-as-one-giant-human-relevancy-filter-and-how-e-commerce-might-save-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1670 Freddie Forrester Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:02:52 +0000 http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/11/24/tumblr-as-one-giant-human-relevancy-filter/#comment-1670 Hi, These are pretty interesting facts and some serious figures of Tumblr supplying ample food for thought. Can you kindly shed some more light on how you calculated the $40-50M/ year range? Thanks Hi,
These are pretty interesting facts and some serious figures of Tumblr supplying ample food for thought. Can you kindly shed some more light on how you calculated the $40-50M/ year range? Thanks

]]> Comment on Results of the 2010 Entrepreneurship survey by Shared Items - June 1, 2010 « Jeetu’s Shared Memory http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/05/26/results-of-the-2010-entrepreneurship-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-1603 Shared Items - June 1, 2010 « Jeetu’s Shared Memory Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:55:41 +0000 http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/05/26/results-of-the-2010-entrepreneurship-survey/#comment-1603 [...] Results of the 2010 Entrepreneurship survey [...] [...] Results of the 2010 Entrepreneurship survey [...]

]]> Comment on The inside story on how I raised $200k in 6 days. by Jose G. Gonzalez http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/04/01/the-inside-story-on-how-i-raised-200k-in-6-days/comment-page-1/#comment-1575 Jose G. Gonzalez Sat, 03 Apr 2010 07:18:05 +0000 http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/04/01/the-inside-story-on-how-i-raised-200k-in-6-days/#comment-1575 Excellent !!! Hook me up ! All right ? Thank you very much !! Cordially yours, Jose G. 956 278 3688 Excellent !!!
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Thank you very much !!
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]]> Comment on The inside story on how I raised $200k in 6 days. by saket http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/04/01/the-inside-story-on-how-i-raised-200k-in-6-days/comment-page-1/#comment-1572 saket Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:07:28 +0000 http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/04/01/the-inside-story-on-how-i-raised-200k-in-6-days/#comment-1572 congrats man! i'm really happy for you. -saket congrats man! i’m really happy for you. -saket

]]> Comment on Being an entrepreneur by sara girlscantell http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/02/12/being-an-entrepreneur/comment-page-1/#comment-1569 sara girlscantell Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:19:22 +0000 http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/02/12/being-an-entrepreneur/#comment-1569 dave, yes! so very yes. working for myself has made me really rethink what's important. i think most people underestimate how important loving what you do is. dave, yes!
so very yes.
working for myself has made me really rethink what’s important. i think most people underestimate how important loving what you do is.

]]> Comment on Being an entrepreneur by dlifson http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/02/12/being-an-entrepreneur/comment-page-1/#comment-1559 dlifson Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:01:37 +0000 http://www.socialstartups.com/2010/02/12/being-an-entrepreneur/#comment-1559 Wow, thanks Jana! That's really generous and sweet of you. Wow, thanks Jana! That’s really generous and sweet of you.

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