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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network? As part of that, I built a ton of relationships at Active.

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Interview with Wes Brodsky, SaveFans

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There is no real room for negotiation, or to let demand drive the pricing on the buyer side. I ended up switching to selling on Stubhub in 2007, after eBay made it much more difficult to search for tickets. If you imagine, a promoter might manage Britney Spears in 50 cities, and all those cities have different demand and price points.

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Interview with Patrick Kennedy, Sidebar

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The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. We did a successful trial in 2008. So how does this fit into the mobile world and B2B?

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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Pierce’s entrepreneurial activities are focused in the areas of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, games, gambling, ad tech and payments. On Demand). Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year. Nearly 50% say they will increase their activity levels in 2010 (hallelujah!)

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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But he also says that it wasn’t a negative regarding M&A activities with competitors – this is sometimes seen as one of the pitfalls of strategic money. Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network.

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Interview with Dave Newmark, Bid4Spots On Google, Radio, and more

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I think that's too bad, actually, because what search does is capture demand very specifically for your product--but broadcast will generate demand for advertisers. Dave Newmark: We doubled our business in 2008 over 2007, a 93 percent increase, and 2009 is up there as well. Sellers also have to have a win.

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