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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. The project ultimately imploded due to a combination of factors. An emerging tech dystopia. Multiple bestselling authors joined together to get involved with NFTs. pic.twitter.com/2NHEmzHZrV.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# That’s a fact.

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Appallicious & the Age of Open Data

Tech Zulu Event

As fast as life moves, technology moves even faster. Apple’s App Store launched in 2008 and is already closing in on 50 billion downloads. Especially on the local level, and especially when it comes to embracing technology. Technology moves fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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

Tech Zulu Event

The industry had seen unprecedented growth in the past decade due to a combination of factors, one of which was the United States’ economic recession. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. At that time, digital accounted for “less than 1/10 of all coupons distributed.”

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

See Five Things Meme as an example. as an example. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen

socalTECH

In 2010, we sold the game assets and name PlayScreen, which we had acquired, and formed a new company with some solid financial and technology guys. Prior to that, the big title at MyNUMO was Match 3D, which was a very ambitious title in 2008, and was a freebie game. stars, mostly five star reviews. Talk about your other titles?

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