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MySpace Startups: Startups From MySpace Vets

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Demand offers up a network of online, content driven web sites--plus a healthy domain name registration business--and has garnered lots of attention for specifically creating content for search engines. Venture backers : Anthem Ventures, the Mailroom Fund, Rincon Venture Partners. Platform G / Mindjolt. www.cocodot.com).

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. 406 Ventures.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. Message of the week (from Fred Wilson) – “don’t fill cracks&# but innovate in new ways with the platform. It’s core platform stuff.

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

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Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. ANTHEM is referred to, depending on what segment you're looking at, as either a community gateway or social networking gateway. But, with Intercasting and our ANTHEM version of MySpace, it's a client integrated into the device. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M

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Interview with Kelly Tompkins, AdventureLink

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The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund. I developed one of the first booking engines for Sabre's web reservation system, in 1996. That information is normalized, standardized, and when a tour operator changes content on their web site, it's automatically picked up on our system.

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6 Top Trends For The Digital World In 2016

Tech Zulu Event

adult now spends a reported 5 hours and 38 minutes on the web – advances have been made in the way individuals and small businesses operate in the digital world, which will grow even more this year. The issue of cyber-espionage, targeting companies like Target, Home Depot and Anthem Insurance, continues to be a concern.