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

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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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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. No platform is naïve enough to allow an outsider to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without an appropriate tax or benefit to them. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Ad.ly – (disclosure: I led the funding on Ad.ly) Provides an in-stream advertising platform for any content creator (individual or organization) with an online social presence. OTHER DEALS. Primarily targets SMBs.