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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. Server and client in Java.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. We will seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

A colleague working at the National Science Foundation said to me, "The lag time between fundamental idea and marketable product is usually longer than policymakers are willing to consider." Just yesterday, I had a great talk with a Los Angeles-based computer game designer who has worked with the U.S. Army, for example.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. reinvented, with more people online and trained. The Present Era.