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Interview with Andrew Humphries, UK's Tech City

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Andrew Humphries: The Tech City Investment Organization or TCIO is the result of an initiative announced by David Cameron, the Prime Minister in November of 2010. Second thing that we do is encourage large organizations, companies like Google, Intel and Facebook, to invest in Tech City. What is the Tech City Investment Organization?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010.

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. What do you mean by social targeting? So who is using your software?

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

socalTECH

To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. What do you mean by social targeting? So who is using your software?

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Q Manning of Rocksauce Studios | Founder Interview

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So in October 2010, I evaluated the competitive landscape and realized that there weren’t any app companies out there focused on what I thought mattered the most: the brand, the look, and the experience a client would have with an app. What are your thoughts on the direction from a design perspective of application development for 2012?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. Businesses are also one-click from advertising through Google and now Facebook.