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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Do fewer structured activities.

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Interview with Zac Brandenberg, Meteor Games

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They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. That's different from most games on Facebook, and on social networks as a whole, which are relatively simple games, with the same gaming mechanics over and over again. We also have in-game currency, which is not premium.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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He remarked, “It’s true that with Facebook connect all websites can immediately have access to your social graph. What we’re doing at Meebo is trying to socially enable websites by allowing them to immediately get not only the social graph information but to do useful stuff with it. For Meebo 1.3%

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Interview with Sherry Gunther, Masher Media

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Sherry Gunther: MyMiniPeeps.com is a unique, online community for kids ages 6-13, which is both a social networking community as well as a game site. In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. They're looking for deeper social networking, and more of a gaming element on sites.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. And in a market with too much capacity (too many startups) the leverage was completely in the hand of buyers at M&A activity finally picked up. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks. The site has since grown to nearly 7.5

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. VCs were very active in this period. You would think it would be better for M&A to be more active when the markets are down – better prices. These companies advertise. And Social.

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