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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo.

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

Both Sides of the Table

in terms of time spent on the sites. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! Social Networking goes Real Time: Twitter.