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Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

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So, we really built some innovation into our platform, to make it ubiquitous in the mobile space. We called the company GOGII--literally, our short text code of 60611, which you can looks a little like GOGII. Around 2005, those of us at JAMDAT thought Apple would disrupt the application space, so we approached Apple.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes. Folksonomy.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Market Size.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. Are you going to do all of this?

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

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That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Cloud Data Platform. Physically printed books or CDs with editors, reviewers and a centralized system are inherently slower and in many cases not even more accurate.

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