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Cash control during these strange times

Berkonomics

And these are indeed strange times, especially if you haven’t lived through 2000-2002 and 2007-2008 recessions and difficulty in finding money from banks and investors. Consider how, and then work on efficiency as a primary tool to reduce cost per unit of output. The simple economic truth. Here is a simple economic truth.

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Demand Media: $56.3M for Pluck, $5.0M For The Daily Plate

socalTECH

for Pluck, a developer of social media tools, and paid $5.0M The firm also revealed that it acquired Pagewise , a provider of how-to videos and text articles, for $15.8M, back in June of 2007. Demand Acquired Pluck in March of 2008, and The Daily Plate in January of 2008. According to the S-1, Demand paid $56.3M

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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

Both Sides of the Table

In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. In 2008 I started VC blogging. But how can you invest in technology unless you’re going to use the tools and understand them? They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page?

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

socalTECH

But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. There was also the opportunity to use our contest engine as a tool, because the challenge in daily deals is to build members and drive traffic. That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current.

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Interview with Paige Craig, Betterworks

socalTECH

I spend about twelve months before starting BetterWorks thinking about the SMB space, and the lack of tools and software for companies. I wanted to give companies a tool to recruit, retain, and optimize their existing workforce. Paige Craig: In 2007, I stepped back from a company called the Lincoln Group.

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This 28 Year Old Woman Co-Founded One Of The Most Successful YouTube Networks

InfoChachkie

In 2007, Sarah joined Current TV. in 2007 (and) 2008 (and I realized) there is all this online video being consumed and it''s not being consumed on Current. these guys, even in 2007, had tens of millions of views. According to Sarah, "It''s not a very good video but it''s a harbinger of things to come. That video is.

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Map of VC Investments

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool!