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Social Networking and Business Value

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an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. David Schwartz, Vice President, Corporate Development of Yammer David Schwartz is the Vice President, Corporate Development, at Yammer Inc., He was raised and educated in London.

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

Both Sides of the Table

RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. The company was called Red Beacon. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. Nice sweep!

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. Time will tell.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

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Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. Geni.com beget Yammer. The next time they came back they had changed their business plan to become a variable rate pricing mechanism for image owners to sell to websites and had created an image-based ad-network platform for remnant photos.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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Knewton – “Online adaptive test prep and virtual classroom platform&# - I love the innovation that is coming from the test prep industry. And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. Tumblr – “Microblogging platform&#. Other deals. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

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Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

Both Sides of the Table

The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Tact stated with a user-centric approach from Day 1.

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