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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66 AppDynamics.

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Interview with Scott Dudelson, Swagbucks

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Scott Dudelson: Swagbucks.com has been around since February of 2008. However, I discovered that all of those things took a lot of time and effort, and very often, no matter how big the event was, or how big the spokesperson deal was, the net for the organizations was really low.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. That means the established firms created no new net jobs during that period.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

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Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. event I did last fall. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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Ron Paul’s presidential bid, the Arizona League of Conservation Voters and the 2008 California No on Prop. The technology packs particular appeal for grassroots political outreach, empowering virtual “armies” of volunteer advocates and voice/text marketers at a fraction of the cost of previous technology support tools.

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Marissa Mayer Yahoo’s New CEO

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She is expected to champion for new products and advance its web technology. She also taught computer programming while still at Stanford to more than 3000 students and in 2008, she was given an honorary doctorate in engineering by the Illinois Institute of Technology. as CEO and Member of the Board of Directors. Mail ,Yahoo!

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