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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

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Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. Here’s how they did it … Mobile First —  It is now well understood that “mobile first” dominated the consumer Internet and we take this for granted.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Jonah believes that the media business is still mostly stuck in the traditional world where too many ad dollars and too much content is still produced in a traditional way but he thinks the next few years will change that dramatically as most competition switched to social, mobile & digital.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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As people consume Twitter on mobile clients they are almost definitionally not doing so on Twitter.com. Often these were things that would make Salesforce more competitive vis-a-vis Oracle and Microsoft. How can you offer up advertisements as Twitter if you don’t control the place where people consume their Tweets?

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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We've invested in a fantastic company called Mobiclip, which provides high throughput video with low battery consumption on mobile devices. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. Obviously, this being LA, we're also very interested in digital content and distribution.