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The Changing Venture Landscape

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.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed.

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Contatta Funding Puts ACT!, Goldmine Founders Head To Head Again

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If you were in sales, you either ran ACT!, and Goldmine faded away, no longer the two kings of the sales CRM world. So far, Nimble has the edge, as the Santa Monica company has been offering up its products to the market since 2011, and Contatta just announced the company and has yet to launch its own software. READ MORE>>.

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ExecTec - Up in the Cloud

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 -- ExecTec - Up in the Cloud. Will iCloud do for Software as a Service (SaaS) what iTunes has done to traditional music sales? Is there potential for real enterprise level SaaS solutions? What cloud based services are you using? How many are you paying for?

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. In the US alone there are 30 billion inbound sales calls every year. There are 2.9

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How ChowNow Delivers Mobile Orders For Restaurants, With Christopher Webb

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spent 2011 raising our seed round, which we used to build our team.and launched the product into beta about a year ago, at the end of 2011. Christopher Webb: It's a SaaS model, and it's $89 a month per location. Now, our main focus is sales and marketing, and to sign up as many restaurants as possible.

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Wes Nichols: I'd say that for 2011, what we are going to see is a dramatic rollout of our software. Did the TV stimulate search?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Time will tell. Total Raised: $9.64mm.