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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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Plus, there's always shoulder surfing--when people write them down, and are grabbing for your daytimer or spreadsheet for passwords--that's treating passwords like it's the 1950's, and leaving your front door key under a door mat. retailmarket is done through e-commerce. Forty-seven percent of people still don't use online banking.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. We'll even write a half a million check. To answer your earlier question, if we're getting involved in earlier stages, is GRP wants to do A round investments. That as unhealthy. An A round investment in this market is a million to $4 million.

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

Both Sides of the Table

We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). Since 2006 I have been lamenting what I see as “the Facebook problem&# – they are trying to lump me into one big social network.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

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