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Google Wants to Disrupt Home Automation with $3.2 Billion Nest Acquisition

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Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition. They’re already delivering amazing products you can buy right now–thermostats that save energy and smoke/CO alarms that can help keep your family safe.

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Rubicon Project Raises $18M, Buys Fox Audience Network

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Intead, the firm is using FAN's acquisition to add around 100 employees from FAN as part of its engineering and product team. Rubicon Project operates a service which helps web publishers optimize the advertising on the site, by selecting the best ad networks to run on a particular publisher page. READ MORE>>.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

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As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. Starting in 2010, we started focusing on that. However, that''s who we were in 2002, and stopped being in 2010. Who we are today, is an ad technology company.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. Google had huge destination traffic.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. I know the product intimately and it rocks. LendingClub. 24.5mm in Series C.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

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We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.