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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. I think it's a shining example of Silicon Beach's technology helping out Hollywod.

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

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In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. was starting.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

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Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management. Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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One obvious example is the OSI model in which we have seven layers ranging from the physical layer at the bottom of the stack (e.g. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Let’s take some examples.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). You need to take care of errors yourself.

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