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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

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By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. And Dropbox & Box.net in a Google, Microsoft, Apple world. Where David is Totally Right. And Twitter wouldn’t exist.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. “No choice at all!” Nice sweep!

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

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It’s true that I have a functional focus on three areas: Performance-based marketing, digital television and mobile computing. Payment ready consumers (Amazon, iTunes, PayPal) and businesses (Google AdWords, Square). Google – They have led the deflationary pressure on advertising, bringing whole industries into chaos.

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

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To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. But the cloud-based stuff that we use every day as consumers (websites, Twitter, Facebook, Zynga) or as businesses (dropbox, gmail, Yammer, GoToMeeting) all rely on business logic created by application companies.

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

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Dig deeper and you see that they do: project management (like 37 Signals), share and store files online (like DropBox and Box.net), create and edit documents online (like Google Docs & Zoho), Wikis (like SocialText) and Discussions (like Yammer). The voice was more clear than my mobile phone. And we had full screen video.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. I don’t like going against Google Docs or against 37Signals for project management. Yammer, Salesforce Chatter. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Happy Anniversary Make It Work – 8 Years Today!

Eric Greenspan

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. What kind of mobile device do you use and why? What success have you had with Twitter?