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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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Highlights included Tyler Crowley (of Sqweal and the Launch conference), Myke Armstrong and William Barnes’ presentation of Votoboth and how it’s not about badges anymore, but county fair ribbons (keep this in mind as you gamify your product).

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Component production – someone needs to manufacture all of those components. Search is just another web application. Google’s vision is the most ambitious of its peers.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). 2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Time will tell. Go Boulder!

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. Our growth has been steady from month-to-month, and has just started to ramp up heavily in 2011.

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YouTube Introduces its Own App for iPhone and iPod touch | Google Adds Editing to the iOS Drive App

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This added features might be why Google couldn’t renew their contract with Apple, after five years as Apple used to develop and preload the YouTube App since the debut of the iPhone in 2007 but there could be more. billion, or 90% of consolidated revenues, a 21% increase over second quarter 2011 revenues of $9.03 No Bad Blood.

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E-commerce’s Changing Landscape | Customization

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Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). Rather, the online store is a speed machine built not on being soothed into what we need, but rather on the features and use of the product on it’s own.