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Gimlet Media and Anchor: What Spotify’s Acquisitions Mean for Podcasts

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It’s the biggest podcast industry acquisition ever, and Spotify isn’t done. Here’s what the podcast acquisitions mean for Spotify, for the entire podcast industry, and for all the tiny underdog podcasters out there. That’s because the acquisitions make Spotify a publisher, as well as platform.

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GameFly Sells Cloud Streaming Tech, Team To Electronic Arts

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Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to the two, Electronic Arts also acquired the Israeli team which had developed GameFly's streaming service for games, which had allowed videogame users to rent videogames via the Internet, much like one might stream videos using Netflix or other online streaming services.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers.

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Reflections on 2018: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? The disruption is being led by companies that understand the importance of putting the customer first, a trend I always thought began in the US a long time ago with the entry of Lexus into the US car market. I doubt it.

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Interview with Ruben Schultz, Swoop

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Today's interview is with Ruben Schultz, the co-founder of Swoop (www.swoopapp.com), a new startup which develops software for limousine, party bus, and other transportation providers. Part of our team is working on partnerships and sales with big companies like Netflix, Google, and others who require group transportation.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, Revolution LLC (Steve Case).