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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

Tech Zulu Event

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. People are not simply watching the TV anymore.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. You could just outspend. There is a much better technique.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. They are designed to help good companies to get access to investors but also help to make bad companies look good. I love complexity.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. They are designed to help good companies to get access to investors but also to make bad companies look good. I love complexity.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. Journalists don’t often write stories that talk about, “This cool new company I met at a conference.” They seldom scoop fundings.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

Both Sides of the Table

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. Where do the new entrants like YouTube, Pandora, iTunes, Huffington Post, Boxee, Netflix, Demand Media and other disruptive offerings fit into that equation and how is it changing? That’s a shame.

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Why Facebook OpenGraph Will Work and Why To Hate It

Tech Zulu Event

It’s the one feature that stuck with me the most from the F8 conference this past September. Facebook has created a simple “Allow” button on a splash screen listing off permissions that you haven’t even read, you just close the window and discontinue your desire to commit. I openly can’t stand OpenGraph.

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