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The Pivot You Need to Read About

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GOAT (“Greatest of All Time) is a sneakerhead marketplace that is en fuego, but we led the company’s last financing round in 2012 (yes, four years ago) when they were an application for letting people join group dinners. I was reluctant to write about GOAT because I don’t want to pretend that I deserve even 0.1%

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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. This past year 2012 was all about forming teams, picking players, and choosing uniforms.

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What Mattered in 2012: Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. The most significant news for GRP Partners in 2012 was the first close of our 4th venture fund. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. We were also about to build a really solid mentor network in a short period of time, pulling in about 250 CEO's and CTOs, from all backgrounds and locations.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). It’s why I wrote this article about Invoca (formerly RingRevenue) that the most obvious mobile Internet ad unit is, in fact, a phone call. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8 billion by 2014. Google knows it.

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Fred Wilson and Andy Weissman Talk with Lindel Eakman about Transitioning Leadership at a VC Fund

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Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ). Maybe that’s USV, too.

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Friday Tech Video Roundup for November 16th, 2012

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Some of the highlights from this week from socalTECH's video section , where we're currently featuring community videos from and about local startups: Peter Pham of Science Inc. Los Angeles MiniTime debuted its service this week to help families find reviews and information for their family vacation. with Mario Andretti.