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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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StoryBots And The Future of Learning,With Gregg Spiridellis, JibJab

socalTECH

We recognized that it was a large business, with American Greetings having about an 80 million dollar a year e-card business, and we thought we could bring some hipness and freshness to the category. Our product is called Starring You, which lets oyu put yourself into any video we create. We also have StoryBots "Starring You" videos.

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StoryBots And The Future of Learning,With Gregg Spiradellis, JibJab

socalTECH

We recognized that it was a large business, with American Greetings having about an 80 million dollar a year e-card business, and we thought we could bring some hipness and freshness to the category. Our product is called Starring You, which lets oyu put yourself into any video we create. We also have StoryBots "Starring You" videos.

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Can Blip.TV Change The Indie Production Market On The Web?

Tech Zulu Event

Gone are the days of heading to your local video store and snatching up a cool indie flick or two to pair up with your take out and your summer blockbuster action flick. has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. The folks over at Blip.tv

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I first met Ethan in 2005. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. So the team set out to solve the “chicken or the egg” problem by onboarding > 1,000 high-quality merchants across 50 service categories while going deep in two micro-areas within LA as our test market.

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

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If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Or, as always, summary notes available below. Is that when it became big?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

The video is only 16 minutes long and it is well worth the time. 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. It's a great talk. It's a great talk.

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