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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. OTHER DEALS: 1. BlockChalk. Hello, Chair.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers.

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

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. 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. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

Wilson joined Paltalk from Zynga/OMGPOP where he was Chief Revenue Officer of the New York City based developer/publisher social mobile games company, which was sold to Zynga in 2012 for $210 Million. Custom ad deals and partnerships. It generates revenues through Subscription, Virtual Currency and Advertising.

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

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile: FourSquare and Skout. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].