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Cash control during these strange times

Berkonomics

And these are indeed strange times, especially if you haven’t lived through 2000-2002 and 2007-2008 recessions and difficulty in finding money from banks and investors. If the time to market is slowed by inefficient development, the risk of a competitive product overtaking yours increases dramatically. The simple economic truth.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. -New These are both either “remnant” or free ad types.

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Businesses Must Manage the Twitter Conversation

Both Sides of the Table

The volume of Tweets is enormous and growing at a rapid pace so tools are emerging to help brands manage this information. My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an open “publish to the world” platform and the trend continued. So why is this important for businesses?

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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

InfoChachkie

Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007. It does this by providing simple tools which facilitate crowed sourced lists. Do you see crowd-ranked lists as ultimately competitive or complimentary to traditional and curated search?

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ArmorWay: Applying Computer Game Theory To Real Life Problems

socalTECH

What we bring to the table is competitive analytics, where we consider your security adversary, and figure how they are trying to break your system, under different scenarios, and recommend a plan which optimizes your security strategy. It was started at the University of Southern California in 2006-2007.

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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

InfoChachkie

Since its origin as an academic research project in 2007, Eucalyptus has become the dominant open source cloud solution, boasting over 25,000 clouds formed. To the casual observer, it may appear that Eucalyptus and RightScale’s respective solutions are competitive. RightScale is the management tool of the cloud.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

Both Sides of the Table

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.