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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Orchard for e-Books”. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. Mobile gifting service.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

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This is a theme that comes up in one the most influential business books for me of the past decade, The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb where he talks about the role that luck plays in business success. Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! If you’re a tech startup person I know you know what I mean.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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It sure would put pressure on Google if they had Facebook competing on one side of them for share of users’ time and Amazon flanking them on the other side by providing search to every website out there that might threaten AdSense and even Google’s core search business. That little online book company. Not Google.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. He has written several books on intellectual property law.

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

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I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan &# and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. I’d like to offer you two “life hacks&# that I implemented in 2009 and one that I’m test driving in 2010.

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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

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I know that some of the best businesses have seen this rapid acceleration quickly: Google, Facebook, Instagram, AirBnB and the like. It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. Not Google. Reach it quickly or investors will look elsewhere.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, DataPop launched its initial Search Marketing application across Google, Microsoft and Yahoo late last year and leading marketers and agencies are seeing breakthrough results. (I went to bed at 2am at the hotel and several people were texted me to try and summon me back to the bar).

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