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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin

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If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. It was an investment management class. Many may simply hit the wall.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

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It ran in April of 2008. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. Because of that, her editors asked her to create a video component for the story. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. They are often bound by geographies and asset classes.

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

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He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund

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If you look at an enterprise developer of IT team with DevoOs, they have to create applications, manage those applications, and now are dealing with open source, hundreds of different web services, network elements, all virtualized and with containers and new tools. Post 2008, LPs abhor illiquidity.