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Image via WikipediaVinod Khosla: TechCrunch: The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile

a whole new world of platforms, a post-PC era, which I’d more aptly describe as the always/everywhere era, finally, and that means a whole new set of opportunities ..... the cost of experimentation has gone down dramatically ..... raw computing power is taken for granted. ..... What else new has the potential (nothing is certain!) to be truly disruptive or establish a new category in the domain of consumer Internet/mobile/services (which to me are fast becoming interchangeable)? ...... AirBnB and Instagram would be examples of companies whose categories existed prior to their entry, but they are meaningfully different. ...... I call them the “unhyped dozen” (to go with my energy investing activities, which I call the “clean dozen”) ...... (1) Data Reduction or Filters (Siri) (2) Big data or Analytics ... There will be countless new types of data streams .... Much has been written about big data and it and may be getting past the unhyped label! (3) Emotion (Foodspotting, Ness, Instagram) (4) Education 2.0 (Khan Academy) ... “Education models that dramatically reduce the cost and increase the availability of quality learning.” The puzzling question is why education has not already changed. (5) TV 2.0 (6) Social Next (7) Interest-based networks (Twitter) (8) Health 2.0 (9) Internet of Things/Universal ID/NFC/Smart sensors.... The network of things is supposedly growing faster than any other network, social or otherwise. (10) Personal Collaborative Publishing (Pinterest, Tumblr) ... Self-publishing on Amazon is becoming real, removing the gateway of traditional editors and the tax of traditional business models. Where will this lead? Books, especially non-fiction, can become more interactive, crowdsourced (ck12.org), social and collaborative. (11) Utility Apps (Siri) (12) Marketplaces & Disintermediation (Etsy) .... Why does Tom Freidman need The New York Times to get readers ................. We as investors have seen Square take off at an unprecedented rate (so far) for a payments startup, but in terms of relative scale, even Square is dwarfed by Mpesa — it is 20% of Kenya’s GDP already (using a totally different model than Square). Meanwhile in India, their UID system could remake the concept of “cash”....... Tools and services that used to be inaccessible to all but large manufacturers are now available to everyone. Foreign factories that were impenetrable before are now an email away. Design software costing thousands of dollars per seat is freely available (or very cheap). Hackers are mixing all of these elements together and re-imagining entire industries from the ground up. ..... the next industrial revolution ...... “The under 25” who don’t know what they don’t know, mostly have not worked at what traditionalists would call a “real job” and are not afraid to try new things ..... the rate of change is accelerating and the possibilities are endless!

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A Tweet From Aileen Lee

wrote a @techcrunch guest post today on Women on Boards & companies that get it... hope you'll read & sharetechcrunch.com/2012/02/19/why…

— aileenlee (@aileenlee) February 19, 2012

@paramendra thank you!

— aileenlee (@aileenlee) February 20, 2012

I Am On Pinterest Now

And this is my first Board. And I am loving the embed feature.

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Long Walk

I went for a long walk today: 6 hours. A great way to go offline, get disconnected. I did not eat or drink the entire time.

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Thug Le

Top 10 Social Media Week Global Influencer

Social Media Week Top Outreacher

Social Media Week Day 3 Tweets

Hey @paramendra @bigfuel @austrazub @jennlevine @missuku @ScrapHacker - I guess we're "Outreachers" ow.ly/969ei #smwnyc #smw12

— Greg Bodenlos (@gregbodenlos) February 16, 2012

@paramendra omg cool.

— ninja worrior (@tutifruti1980) February 15, 2012

your version got the job done... & you're fast! RT @paramendra: @ElleeHenry Thanks for filling in the blanks. :-)

— Leslie E. Henry (@ElleeHenry) February 15, 2012

@paramendra Congrats! Another day on top of our leaderboard @ Newyork.kred.com Keep up the great work!

— Kred (@Kred) February 15, 2012

Whats up.We have an overdue lunch that we need to set up RT @paramendra: @cavaughn Hello there.

— cavaughn (@cavaughn) February 15, 2012

@paramendra you take great notes!

— Kevin Selhi (@KevinSelhi) February 15, 2012

Curious how next panel addresses this RT @KevinSelhi @paramendra @scottbelsky:"The dark side of crowdsourcing--careless engagement. #SMWJWT

— Leslie E. Henry (@ElleeHenry) February 15, 2012

--> RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "Critical mass Vs Credible mass." #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWJWT

— cavaughn (@cavaughn) February 15, 2012

Yes. RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "Dreamers love to hire people they'd love to have beer with." #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWJWT

— Greg Bodenlos (@gregbodenlos) February 15, 2012

yes! hahaha "intoxicated orgy of ideas" RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "Dreamers love to hire people they'd love to have beer with." #smwnyc

— Austra Zubkovs (@austrazub) February 15, 2012

@lauramfin thought you'd like this quote :) RT @lydiamann: RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "The doers want the dreamers to shut up" #smwnyc

— Michelle Maskaly (@mmaskaly) February 15, 2012

RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "Fight apathy ruthlessly and keep people engaged in the fight." #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWJWT

— Austra Zubkovs (@austrazub) February 15, 2012

RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "The doers want the dreamers to shut up." #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWJWT

— Greg Bodenlos (@gregbodenlos) February 15, 2012

RT @paramendra: @scottbelsky "Some ideas never happen. Some ideas should never happen." #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWJWT

— Brian Duggan (@ConferenceBites) February 15, 2012

So true! RT @paramendra: @rachelsterne "YouTube is a great platform but it has not changed in years." #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWGuardian

— Greg Bodenlos (@gregbodenlos) February 15, 2012

@paramendra U should say hi after Rachel Sterne event

— Oren Bennett (@1obennet) February 15, 2012

Great interview series, right? We think so. RT @paramendra: Yesterday was @jalak, today is @rachelsterne #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWGuardian

— SocialMediaWeek NYC (@smwnyc) February 15, 2012

@paramendra But slightly racist? ;-)

— Peter Stannack (@pstann) February 15, 2012

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Dennis Crowley: FBI Background Check

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeI knew there was something special about this guy. Now I know.

Dennis Crowley: I Underestimated Him
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Business Insider: The $600 Million Social Life Of Foursquare Founder Dennis Crowley

..... his success didn't happen overnight .... a series of failures and disappointments .... Crowley convinced the school to let him blog for the remaining credits. Teendrama, where Crowley was already writing about his college antics, became his independent study...... "People flocked to Dennis. He wasn’t up in the front of the room saying, ‘Hey, follow me.’ He just did stuff that was fun and people wanted to be with him. He’s always been that way, and that has never changed.” ....... “I remember thinking, what a cool life this guy lives,” says Jonathan (J) Crowley of his brother. “He was working at a hot tech company, going out all the time, he had lots of friends … and then it all disappeared.” ....... In 2001, the week Crowley turned 25, Vindigo went through a series of layoffs and Crowley was let go. That same week he was evicted from his apartment. .... Crowley spent the summer trying to line up interviews, but jobs were scarce. ...... On September 11, Crowley watched the twin towers crumble before his eyes. ..... Crowley's life, it seemed, followed suit. ...... In a matter of months he lost his job, his girlfriend, his home, his direction and eventually New York City and all the friends it held. Crowley was forced to move home to New Hampshire. He hadn’t a clue where life would take him next....... Crowley remained in New Hampshire for the next seven months. It was a tough transition and his spirits were down. ...... “He went from living in New York to living in a tiny little ski house in New Hampshire, and from making a good amount of money to making about $6 per hour teaching kids to snowboard,” says J.......... Dodgeball had continued to transform as Crowley’s side project, but up in New Hampshire he didn’t have the heart to work on it. ....... Bored, alone and broke, Crowley survived by making a few ground rules. From his blog:

Note to fellow unemployed kids: (aka Rules to Live By)
1. Leave your apt before noon every day.
2. No drinking before 5pm.
3. No watching TV before 5pm (except during lunch).
4. No taking taxis.
5. No eating meals when drunk.

Resilient, Crowley turned the bad times into jokes and wrote haikus for his troubles:

unemployment check.
you never showed up this week.
please come again soon.

every month i throw
eighty dollars towards this gym.
towels should be free.

atm machine
i already know i'm poor
keep your damn receipt

hello girl from nerve
i wish you were half as cute
as you looked online

99 cent nugs,
junior bacon cheeseburger
and a frosty, please.

ex-girlfriend. birthday.
send a card - or just "forget"?
my heart she broke. twice.

...... Crowley introduced the game to other NYU students and worked with a professor, Clay Shirkey, to develop it during an independent study. Rainert and Crowley refer to Shirkey as the Patron Saint of Social Media. With his help they tested out social and mobile features for Dodgeball, like Shouting, where messages were sent within a 15 block radius. ......... That summer Crowley learned about finance and angel investing. Their pursuit of capital led them to Google’s doors in September........ Google was fresh out of its IPO and it wasn't in the habit of investing in startups. When Crowley and Rainert met with Google they were told, according to Dennis, "We don't really finance companies but maybe you guys should just come and work here."
That moment was one of the high points in Crowley’s career........ He wrote about it on his blog, of course......... “Hey kids, my grad school thesis project (and what seems like my life's work), dodgeball.com, was acquired by Google today!........“Special shoutouts to everyone that's helped out. Tallboys for everyone. Forever!”..... But the high didn’t last, and selling to Google ultimately put Crowley at another low point....... “Everyone sees this side of Dennis that's so electric but there was a phase when he was in a rut. He was in a tough position. I don't think he could find the energy to get himself excited.” ..... Selvadurai had a desk around the corner from Crowley....... “He was the one guy who knew how to make iPhone stuff. He liked hacking city apps,” recalls Crowley. “I was doing a lot of mobile work and I also liked city stuff and we just started working together. We were experimenting for four to five months. It wasn't until January 2009 when we said, ‘Let's get serious about this and launch it for SXSW.’”....... The ordinarily social Crowley became reclusive.......“When Dennis stops socializing, you know he’s working on something really big,” says J. ......One week in January, a rare event occurred: A Friday and Saturday night passed with no sign of Crowley. ......An entire week passed and J still hadn’t heard from his brother.......“Then a group of us got an email that said, ‘Hey guys, I built this, what do you think?’ It was the first version of Foursquare; it was originally called Jimmy Disco,” says J. ...... Foursquare wasn’t always smooth sailing for Crowley. ..... “Everyone thinks the Foursquare experience is this rocket ship that started at SXSW 2009 and it hasn't let up, when in reality it was a little spike and then a summer of nothing,” says Crowley...... It took him and Selvadurai about nine months to raise the first round of capital for Foursquare. ...... “Then it spiked back up and it plateaued, and it spiked back up and it plateaued,” he says. “Of course if you average it out [the Foursquare experience] looks like a nice hockey stick curve. If you zoom in a little bit it is super, super rocky.” ....... “My whole career is a bunch of sizzles and spikes,” says Crowley. “I'm still trying to make sense of all of it, but when you look back it all starts to connect. Everything connects in hindsight. Of course you don't realize any of that going forward, you only realize that when you look back.” ...... last month he traveled across the country with five ridiculous-looking corn cob pipes to surprise his friends in Lake Tahoe. ...... "I've been trying to solve the same problems for many years and build software that helps optimize downtime. Of course the problem set keeps evolving and changing."....... Perhaps Crowley’s life-long wrestle with Foursquare stems from the fact that he so deeply embodies the product. Life, for him, is a constant game of checking in with people he loves. The personal reward he gets from being with friends and discovering new ways to have fun is what he wants every Foursquare user to experience.

Body Doubles

@A_StrausGarcia I have body doubles attending multiple events at once. Say hi to each one you meet.

— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) February 15, 2012

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@A_StrausGarcia Sorry Andy, Mike Bloomberg Wants Me Here goo.gl/fb/cGfrq :-)

— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) February 15, 2012

The Bourne Legacy goo.gl/fb/Uz275

— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) February 15, 2012

Mike Bloomberg Wants Me Here goo.gl/fb/cGfrq

— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) February 15, 2012

The Bourne Legacy

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Social Media Week: Day 2: 120 Tweets

@paramendra I'm seeing your mug all over #SMWNY Where you at? Come to this event: bit.ly/wONpem

— Aaron Straus Garcia (@A_StrausGarcia) February 14, 2012

RT @paramendra @cindygallop "The future of business is doing good and making money at the same time." #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWBigFuel #CSR

— Alexis LaScala (@LexxiLaS) February 14, 2012

@paramendra "Hapless" feels a lil harsh. He's starting out, finding his way, was brave to get up there. cc @randomdeanna #SMWBigFuel

— Julia Smith (@juliacsmith) February 14, 2012

@paramendralook @jparkercamqueen

— Leeanna Portier (@Leeannad75) February 14, 2012

@paramendra and you de doctor? lol.

— ninja worrior (@tutifruti1980) February 14, 2012

@paramendra Hey - apologies but we're already expecting a full house! next one.

— Brian DiFeo (@bridif) February 14, 2012

RT @paramendra @Techonomy @youngbradford @cliffkuang @randyjhunt @weijmarshausen new.livestream.com/smwnyart/kevin… #smw #smwnyc #smw12 #SMWHearst

— Noah Xifr (@Noah_Xifr) February 14, 2012

@paramendra Yes. I'm going to watch it tonight.

— Nicole Moore (@thehotnessgrrrl) February 14, 2012

@paramendra I was there. :) I interviewed John & Jeremy.

— Maya Baratz (@mbaratz) February 14, 2012

@paramendra So grateful for your tweets covering @Jalak's talk. I wasn't able to make it this morning but wanted to hear her thoughts.

— Nicole Moore (@thehotnessgrrrl) February 14, 2012

RT @thehotnessgrrrl: RT @paramendra: "There are more mobile phones than toilets in India." #smw #smw12 #smwnyc #SMWBigFuel" who counted?

— Peter Stannack (@pstann) February 14, 2012

RT @paramendra: @jalak "There are more mobile phones than toilets in India." #smw #smw12 #smwnyc #SMWBigFuel"

— Nicole Moore (@thehotnessgrrrl) February 14, 2012

RT @paramendra: @jalak "More people have access to mobile phones than clean water in Africa." #smw #smw12 #smwnyc #SMWBigFuel

— Nicole Moore (@thehotnessgrrrl) February 14, 2012

thanks for watching! “@paramendra: Moderator to @jalak "You are the betting type." #smw #smw12 #smwnyc #SMWBigFuel”

— jalak jobanputra (@jalak) February 14, 2012

@paramendra Thank you for mention & joining us @SMWmiami @Livestream! @LisaSparksCTCT @ToddPaton @JanieC @alexdc #smwmiami #smwcc #smw12

— Brenda Leguisamo (@brendaleguisamo) February 14, 2012

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