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GOOD Gets Funding Round

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Los Angeles-based GOOD , a media firm which operates Reason Pictures, GOOD Magazine, and GOOD Digital, announced this week that it has raised a Series A funding round. magazine founder Bernie Goldhirsch. Tags: good content media magazine movie venture capital angel nicholas negroponte. Amount of the funding was not disclosed.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC.

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Activision Names Rosensweig CEO of RedOctane

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Rosensweig was most recently COO of Yahoo from 2002 to 2006. Rosensweig has also served at Ziff Davis, in a variety of roles, including President and CEO of ZDNet, and Vice-President and Publisher of PC Magazine.

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Activision Names Rosenweig CEO of RedOctane

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Rosenweig was most recently COO of Yahoo from 2002 to 2006. Rosenweig has also served at Ziff Davis, in a variety of roles, including President and CEO of ZDNet, and Vice-President and Publisher of PC Magazine. Activision said that Kai Huang, former President and CEO of RedOctane will continue on at RedOctane reporting to Rosenweig.

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Rebranding Should Be Driven By Growth, Not Desperation

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As Wired magazine pointed out in a January 2013 article , "It’s a Hail Mary pass for a company that held 44.5 percent of the domestic market in 2006 but watched that slip to 8.4 Unfortunately, the market was as excited by the new devices as they were about the company''s revised name.

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9 Technology Innovations Made In The USA

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The Model S, primarily assembled at Tesla’s main plant in Fremont, California, wowed pundits and critics so much that it won 2012 Car Of The Year awards from Motor Trend, Automobile Magazine, Yahoo Motors, and more. LED Flashlights by Maglite : In 2006, Maglite introduced LED illumination into the company’s product portfolio.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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We then had a piece in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Europe, we ran front cover of Tornado Insider (the top VC magazine in Europe at the time). We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. I felt I had earned the right to be there.

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