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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Why I’ve Shifted More Attention to Facebook

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And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US.

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The Convergence of Social Media & Traditional Radio

Eric Greenspan

I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started buying live endorsement radio ads back in 2005. We post content from our show on blogs including show notes and tips and tricks. We post podcasts immediately on the blog, websites and iTunes. I spent a lot of money on Mark Germain (Mr.

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Google Cleaning Out Their Closets

Tech Zulu Event

Matt Eichner, General Manager, Global Enterprise Search in a blog post says;” Technology creates tremendous opportunities to improve people’s lives. Some may not remember Google Video, the service stopped taking uploads in May 2009 but still has hosted content and a number of users.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

socalTECH

In the quest to own the world of Internet content, there has been a huge amount of focus given to the world of consumer Internet content. For that reason, more and more content is going online. However, as these are relatively niche focuses, it's difficult for those content providers--often times bloggers--to build an audience.

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How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison

socalTECH

We connect consumers to great content from around the Internet, from social networks, from thousands of branded video channels, and around any particular topic they're interested in. Blair Harrison: I sold iFilm to Viacom at the end of 2005, and got out of there at the beginning of 2008. What is Frequency?

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. was starting.