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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist).

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. Not Google. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. They came from a different perspective. They have the mass retailer mentality of “stack ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap.&#

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

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 Google turned YouTube into one of the most valuable future Internet properties. The Past (1985-2002).