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Ryan Graves
Ryan Graves

This presentation includes the lessons learned and post mortum of SocialDreamium, a social web startup.

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Understanding startup failure. Ryan Graves 9/10/09 Founder of SocialDreamium LLC @ryangraves
 
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The Focus: Competition ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Focus: Competition ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Us vs. Them 11/08 04/09 http://thedreaminaction.com/2009/04/09/seesmic-desktop-takes-over-twitter-clients/ http://mashable.com/2009/04/08/tweetdeck-memory-leak/
Summary ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],It’s all about the team.
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