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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

socalTECH

They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. I will write about some of these topics soon.

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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

Tech Zulu Event

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. There is a television/video/content/Internet revolution coming. Coincident.TV

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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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Interview with J.R. Johnson, Lunch.com

socalTECH

Back at that time, I had people ask my--why would I ever want to read what other people are writing, isn't that what professional authors and journalists are for? We sold it in July of 2008, to Expedia. Lunch.com was the platform to do all of that. We spent a lot of time proving out the platform, to see that it works.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

SoCal Delicious

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable. September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am.

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