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Snap's Big Winners: Spiegel, Murphy, Laskey, Benchmark, Lightspeed

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Who are the big winners after the IPO pricing of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. Of particular note is the involvement of Laskey, who made his first fortune with another, Southern California mobile app maker--Jamdat Mobile--which he took public in 2004, and later sold to EA in 2006 for $680M. on Wednesday afternoon?

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Snap's Big Winners: Spiegel, Murphy, Lasky, Benchmark, Lightspeed

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Who are the big winners after the IPO pricing of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. Of particular note is the involvement of Lasky, who made his first fortune with another, Southern California mobile app maker--Jamdat Mobile--which he took public in 2004, and later sold to EA in 2006 for $680M. on Wednesday afternoon?

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. We build mobile products, not just mobile applications, but products around them. What are TenFarms and PhotoPoll?

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Total raised: $120.3mm; $43.5mm raised prior to 2006 recap; post-recap, raised $7.7mm; Series B in 2009 for $15mm; – Read more: VentureWire (requires subscription). Developer of Appsaurus , a mobile app recommendation engine.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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They can also help raise larger rounds of capital and often at higher prices. 1 party = low price. Michael’s view (full details in the video) is that right now there often aren’t multiple buyers for consumer Internet companies and prices often aren’t what people hope for going into the process. ITA Software.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Includes content mobile guides, ie. Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Why Microsoft Needed Perceptive Pixel & Vice Versa

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” Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona this February that the PPI screens could connect to PCs and looked similar to the Windows 8 tablet varying only in size and price. Windows 8 also works well with the PPI screens. The PPI screens too have a huge market potential.