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LA, and Southern California's Surge In Venture Capital Funds

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Investment interests: Consumer Internet, eCommerce, enterprise software, cloud computing, financial technology, advertising technology. Managing Director: Bill Maris (formerly of GV/Google Ventures) Investment interests: Health care investments. Section 32. www.section32.com. Fund size: $230M fund. Bryant Stibel.

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Why Online / Offline Mobile Integration is Going to be a Huge Business

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My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. While the media industry is driven by a combination of subscriptions and advertising – it’s clear that the latter plays a unique role in media. to 2x the average order value.

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Entrepreneurs Should Go For The Quick Buck – Then Stop - Initial Business Models Can Be Enticing But Limiting In The Long Run

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In particular, the Google AdWord market matured, making it increasingly difficult for lead generation operators to profitably purchase keywords that would motivate qualified users to complete a lead form. As with many emerging markets, the Facebook advertising ecosystem is relatively inefficient. Scaling Right.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. In the same year Salesforce.com launched a SaaS CRM platform to compete with Siebel. Enter Apple. Or would it?

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

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This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch. which has already been adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, and Opera and many others with Google and Yahoo! Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Disconnects between older and newer generations of social media.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

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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. . How UX and the Cloud are Transforming Software. Unger, John T.

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