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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? We've both build marketing technology platforms in emerging digital channels, and also built direct-to-consumer brands who rely heavily on performance marketing and data-driven marketing. We were working on a portfolio of consumer Internet brands.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Total raised: $125mm See: TechCrunch.

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

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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. And when I say this I don’t mean they funded billion dollar companies – they literally created them. Cars Direct / Internet Brands.