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How Kixer Is Connecting Mobile Web Users To Apps

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Keith Bonnici: We have created a platform that lets standard web publishers tap into the growing pool of money being spent by app developers to market their products. What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were. What is Kixer? What''s your background?

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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The easiest way to look at it, from the tech perspective, is that we are very similar to LendingClub. Brett and I sat down, and said, how can we take a tech approach and create a positive impact on the existing real estate industry, particularly in the mortgage and real estate finance industry. So, what is PeerStreet?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# source: Capital IQ.

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Interview with Peter Lee, Baroda Ventures

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He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. I wouldn't say we're extremely close to anything right now, but we've seen I'd say at least three different companies were we went further than an initial meeting--not a term sheet, but deeper diligence.

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

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