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What Mattered in 2010: Jim Andelman, Rincon Ventures

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2010 was very good to us. A number of companies in the portfolio delivered very strong operating results in 2010, which is exciting. Also, we had an investment in a company that went public this year, BroadSoft, which is one of 2010's best-performing IPOs. 2) Advertising in the Facebook ecosystem. 1) Mobile web.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

SoCal Delicious

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

“As voice API, voice broadcast and text messaging technology advances and cloud computing becomes increasingly sophisticated, more and more business – across all core market sectors — are discovering why cloud telephony is the future,” said Dinesh Ravishanker, CEO and co-founder, CallFire.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. They are a unique group of intellectuals with aspirations to truly change how companies do business.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. .

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