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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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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. That little online book company. Not Google. They came from a different perspective. They have the mass retailer mentality of “stack ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap.&# Amazon changed our industry. This is mind boggling.