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Why I’ve Shifted More Attention to Facebook

Both Sides of the Table

I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. And I noticed how many comments his posts generated and I thought that would be a very useful platform for me. For me, the most sustainable are newsletter subscribers because I can deliver it right to your email box.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. These are very different.

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How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison

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We hope to be on every single platform, over time. Blair Harrison: I sold iFilm to Viacom at the end of 2005, and got out of there at the beginning of 2008. We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012.

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Interview with Jamie Siminoff, Unsubscribe.com

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To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. What lots of people do instead, is they use the spam button or delete button in their email platform.

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Changing The Business Of Media Through Online Video, With Cenk Uygur

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I started Young Turks back in 2002, and then, in 2006 and really towards the end of 2005, started daily web streaming for the show. Back in 1997, I had emailed my friends telling them that online video would be the future, and I was going to go there. They sent me back skeptical emails saying that it would never work.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I first met Ethan in 2005. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses. ” When merchants sign up MyTime then helps them with marketing activities through marketing automation tools they’ve build across SEM, social, and email.

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The Convergence of Social Media & Traditional Radio

Eric Greenspan

I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started buying live endorsement radio ads back in 2005. We track and record every call, email, post and tweet and we constantly bring our sponsors into the mix to share in the exposure. I spent a lot of money on Mark Germain (Mr. K), Leo Laporte and Jeff Levy, to name a few.