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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

We collaborate using Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Yammer, Skype, GoToMeeting, Fuze and hundreds of other tools not available to the last generation of whiteboard, personal meeting or teleconference users. An estimated $180 billion will be invested in data analytics by 2024. We read increasingly using our digital devices.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. A great opportunity for more visible networking.

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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

Both Sides of the Table

The timing of the announcement of this investment couldn’t have been timed more perfectly if we tried. And before that you might enjoy this longer analysis on why I invested in DataSift in the first place , which was written 2.5 But what if you’re a credit card company and you want to know where to find your next customers?

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. Let me not bury the lede. Nice sweep!

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I’m often asked by people what investment areas interest me. I try to invest in things that I know and that I believe I might have better knowledge and relationships than the masses of VCs. But one theme in pervasive in all my thinking about investing in Internet-based companies: Deflationary economics. Here’s what I mean.

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Interview with Eric M. Jackson, CapLinked

socalTECH

It connects companies with investors, allows investors to forward on referrals to other investors, and once an investment has been made, allows a company to post updates to the site. That makes it easier to get money in the door, and keep investors happy for follow on investments. Who would find this most useful? Thanks, and good luck!

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How Kaleo Is Tackling Enterprise Knowledge Sharing

socalTECH

He's now hard at work at a new company, Kaleo, which is tackling the enterprise, knowledge sharing market�and already has an impressive list of Fortune 500 customers. There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that. Phil Hui-Bon-Hoa: We have 35 customers, all of whome are very large, blue chip customers.