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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

How could it be when they always have “schlocky” ads or PSAs (public service announcements). Online text book rental service. Offers a private label service that allows campus book retailers to offer an online rental model; serves 1.3mm to-date. Online radio music service. These are both either “remnant” or free ad types.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Mobile gifting service. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. Estimated 15mm downloads to date.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. And maddening.

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Google For Icons | IconFinder Providing The Best for Developers and Designers

Tech Zulu Event

Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux). From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements. on your hard drive in PNG-format.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. I am a big fan of not getting locked in, looking at what services and vendors are there, and going multi-cloud when you can. Tim O'Neal: We try to make it really easy.