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A Seriously Great Story and Why We Funded Them

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We did a full-court press led by Steven because once we decided this was the team we wanted to work with and this opportunity mapped to our belief system that content + tech will build a generation of great Internet companies. It is what Seriously was designed to do. So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.)

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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

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Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you.

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How do I Really Feel About Anonymous Apps Like Secret?

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” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. I first discovered him or her as a commenter on Fred Wilson’s blog. But my job is to understand technology and therefore you must use it to understand it. Kill a fat person.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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It is often the fortuitous mixture of new technologies, customer awareness and then acceptance of the technology and then the slow adoption into our daily lives that leads to markets exploding. I recently read this anecdote in the press (withholding company name because I actually really love the concept).

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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If you’ve been following the press about VC funds you’ll know this is no small feat. My partner Steven Dietz created an internship program with a few of the leading LA-based universities designed to get 500 internships with the thesis that if they start with LA-based roles they’re more likely to stay after they graduate.

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Twitter’s “Who to Follow” – Bad English, Great Functionality

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Not to be a stickler for English – especially on this blog where I often race through my posts with very little editing and therefore make many mistakes – but the list should actually say “whom to follow&# as you’ll see in this guide to proper grammar. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Brilliantly.