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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. They sponsor TWiVC. Hello, Chair.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. 2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. It’s core platform stuff.