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October 5, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

The Here And Now Is A Cash Cow

There is a new trend on the web and both startups and investors are taking note. Fred Wilson has called this trend, “taking the web offline”. Others call it the challenge of “local”. Companies like Loopt and Foursquare are taking this problem head on. As the only web nerd amongst my group of friends I [...]

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Posted Under Brands & Marketing Technology

August 28, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

The Intangible Social Network Becomes Tangible and Even More Powerful

As the Adaptive Blue team wrote in their blog post about this new release, this update is “One Small Step for Glue, One Giant Leap for Usability”, and they are right. Before today, I always thought of Glue as the intangible social network. The data was out there, and valuable, but it wasn’t easy or [...]

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Posted Under Technology

May 12, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Online Forums: Old Technology But Still A Powerful Social Media Tool

via world economic forum Why THE DREAM IN ACTION Has A Forum I’ve decided to add a forum to THE DREAM IN ACTION because I want the site to be more than one to many communication. Simply put, I think putting your dreams into action on a daily basis is as much a group thing [...]

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Posted Under Projects Technology

April 17, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Facebook cashing in: IPO looming

image via aknacer “We will be looking for someone with public company experience who can help take (Facebook) to the next stage in our growth.” – Mark Zuckerberg, an internal FB email I just finished reading Kara Swishers post on AllThingsD (from 2 weeks ago) about Zuckerbergs announcement that Gideon Yu’s departure, their now ex-CFO. [...]

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Posted Under Entrepreneurship

December 8, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Social Noise-making vs. Social Networking

Today Ross Kimbarovsky, co-founder of crowdSPRING posted a very good post titled ‘Talk with people, Not to them’ on the startup’s blog. He used Chris Brogan and Tim O’Reilly, two highly respected individuals in the technology space, as great examples for how they Twitter and converse with people on the web. His point was that [...]

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  • Hi. I'm Ryan Graves and this is my personal blog. I'm an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, via Chicago, via Miami OH, via San Diego. My wife blogs too, and I love my family.

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