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NantWorks Buys Alcatel-Lucent's Digital Multimedia Solutions Business

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Los Angeles-based NantWorks , the investment and umbrella company for the projects of billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, announced a deal today with Alcatel-Lucent , where Nantworks will acquire Alcatel-Lucent''s Digital Multimedia Solutions business unit. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

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Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early-stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. They are usually thinking only of costs required to get “in business,” rather than the total costs of marketing, scaling up, and going international.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15). So it is a combination of markets and people. The contextual ad market was attractive. 11:40-14:15).

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How To Set A Balance Of User Growth Vs Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. They are usually thinking only of costs required to get “in business,” rather than the total costs of marketing, scaling up, and going international.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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As you're probably familiar with, in the business to business marketing space, print has been the dominant way that vendors communicate with their potential audience. That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue. What is Aggregage?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. DEAL OF THE WEEK: In and of itself TweetDeck would be like any other deal. They sponsor TWiVC. LibreDigital.