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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. In my mind, not a typical VC investment. OTHER STUFF.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. SlideShare: VC signaling in seed rounds.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

socalTECH

Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Depending on who you are, and where you are, we can deliver different advertising. How did you get into this?

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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Traffic.com sold 10-second in-content advertising spots to local TV broadcasters. Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. Overture (Goto.com).