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TYT Network Names Fullscreen Vet As VP

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Los Angeles-based TYT Network has hired on BuzzFeed and Fullscreen veteran Chris Puckett as its new Vice President of Advertising & Brand Partnerships, the company said Tuesday. TYT Network runs The Young Turks and other online properties. He also had served at BuzzzFeed.

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Report: Crosscut Ventures Launching Fourth Venture Investment Fund

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Best Alternatives to the Amazon Affiliate Program

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Suddenly, every other affiliate program and network out there is looking more attractive. The New York Times now includes a Bookshop link alongside an Amazon one, while BuzzFeed News, Vox, and New York Magazine are all in, and Hearst, Meredith, and Condé Nast will likely start using Bookshop next month. eBay Partner Network.

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The Future of Advertising will be Integrated

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And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. I guess from there we had nowhere to go but down. Nowadays banner ads get on average 0.2% CTR meaning for every 1,000 ads that are served up only 2 people click on them. Holy Shiitake ! The eyes are in the image.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. And when you think about the three C’s you begin to realize that the first two of these activities are ones where the economic powerhouse networks are driven in cities outside of Silicon Valley.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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I grew up a computer programmer, a builder of computer networks and fascinated with infrastructure so in many ways I felt like I existed at the inception of many of these great technologies. With all of those companies gobbled up the market is now focused on the next generation startups like TasteMade, MiTu Network, StyleHaul and so forth.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Huddle allows users to maintain an interconnected network of secure online workspaces for file sharing, ideation, project management and virtual meetings. Current round: $20mm in Series C by Accel Partners (Jim Breyer, board member at Wal-Mart, Dell, and FaceBook), KPCB, and DAG Ventures. Total raised: $29.5mm. Total Raised: $17.7mm.