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

Both Sides of the Table

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). provides you.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. We'll see where my opinion goes after hearing the presentations. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms. In second venture - compared Salesforce.com vs. S3 - as platform.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Went on to present at TechCrunch 50. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Was senior in shaping the curriculum and teaching efforts at Kaplan & Princeton Review. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Total round was $2.5

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The Business of Gaming | REACH Games Event Recap

Tech Zulu Event

On October 24th, the quarterly event series, REACH, presented as a collaboration between TechZulu and GadgetReview , took place. Mobile and new generation consoles are being adopted at an astounding rate, and all the while gaming has become an increasing social outlet.

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

Tech Zulu Event

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Make sure to tune in! Now all we need is YOU to: Join us!

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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. The Present Era. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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

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dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end. So we only had to raise $500,000 to get going and again hardware ate just over 10% of the round.

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