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

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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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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

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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. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. But succinctly this press places a marker in the ground for your company.

Startup 355
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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. PHONE CALLS.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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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 do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

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

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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 do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

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The Magic Midnight Mind Meld

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As you may know I outlined my rules for maximum impact at events / conferences before SXSW began. Given that I hadn’t had time to change out of my t-shirt (I had promised Jonathan Strauss I would wear to support his company), I tried to keep a low profile here [full shirt: Effing Social Media, How Does it Work?

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Want to Know What Marc Andreessen’s Magic on Twitter is? Hint: It’s Not Tweetstorming

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This was pre social media. ” He was writing to people. I am often asked about social media by those who want to know how they should best do it professionally. My advice always follows along the line of: Twitter is part media distribution platform. To get on his radar screen. Background.