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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. It is to out friend. Enjoyed this post? Disruptive. We get it! I Be specific. Tesla is not.

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Why Did I Invest in the Company Pose?

Both Sides of the Table

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. Great guy, I wonder WTF he’s up to? Pose is no different.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). And then came AOL.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. We all wanted intros.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advertising

Frank Addante

► August (1) Stay Positive ► July (2) Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry The DNA of an A++ Team ► June (1) Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space ▼ May (3) Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advert. ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0:

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Intel Deepens Move into Sports Tech with SportStream Investment

Xconomy

ScoreStream, a five-year-old startup that created a social media platform for crowd-sourcing local sports scores, has raised $3.7 million in a Series A round that includes Intel Capital as an investor. Including the latest round, ScoreStream has raised a total of $6.8 million since it was founded in 2012.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs.

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