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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

Both Sides of the Table

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. The idea immediately resonated. I stayed close.

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Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Software: Start-ups in the Cloud ?? Challenges and Opportunities

SoCal Tech Calendar

The global cloud computing market is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 28 percent from $47 billion in 2008 to $126 billion by 2012, according to IBM based on various market estimates. Keynote Speaker: Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research,Salesforce.com. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. See [link] (more).

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How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison

socalTECH

We hope to be on every single platform, over time. Blair Harrison: I sold iFilm to Viacom at the end of 2005, and got out of there at the beginning of 2008. We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012.

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‘The Tyranny of the OR’ For Social Media Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? billion in 2012. United Airlines is still recovering from that debacle.

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Appallicious & the Age of Open Data

Tech Zulu Event

Apple’s App Store launched in 2008 and is already closing in on 50 billion downloads. The Appallicious platform is an invaluable tool helping San Franciscans find and navigate through city parks, playgrounds and museums. Platforms like Appallicious can help governments keep up. Government, in contrast, does not move quickly.

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Productivity in Your Pocket

Xconomy

Fast-forward to the iPhone and the smartphone explosion in 2008 with the launch of the App Store. Paper launched in 2012, and though it is a drawing and sketching app, it proved that relatively complex work could be done on the iPad, leveraging the touch interface and larger screen. But First iPad. Paper launched an iPhone version.

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The Future of Couponing | How Social-Local-Mobile has Changed the Game

Tech Zulu Event

The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms.

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