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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. I found this investment strange since normally VC’s hate to bet on gaming companies. billion pre-money.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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Hopscotch, led by Laurence Sotsky , has built software which enables sports teams, venues, and others to rapidly create mobile apps for their fans. We caught up with Lauren to hear about Hopscotch, and why teams and schools are turning to the company to power their mobile apps. What is Hopscotch? What do your apps do?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. When I’m on a VC panel, I’m always amused by the answers from my co-panelists as they are usually the same set of “VC cliches” which makes it even more fun when I blurt out my answer.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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Are you launching a mobile application? Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). The exact same team had worked on 2 previous customer service startups (and 1 non-CS product).

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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I'm Tired of Creating Your Content - Babbling VC , November 12, 2010 Jeff triggered this post in regards to his Check-in Fatigue on Foursquare. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years.