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

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But what if you’re a credit card company and you want to know where to find your next customers? DataSift is a real-time data processing platform that can be used with any data source including your internal data. Already 2/3rds of our customers are ingesting 2 or more data sources including Facebook, Tumblr, WordPress, Bit.ly

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Social Networking and Business Value

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an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. David Schwartz, Vice President, Corporate Development of Yammer David Schwartz is the Vice President, Corporate Development, at Yammer Inc., He has performed this role since the company’s inception after Yammer was spun-out of Geni Inc. (a

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

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RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Interview with Eric M. Jackson, CapLinked

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Jackson: CapLinked is actually a collaborative platform, a social platform that connects entrepreneurs and investors. At one point, we had to turn around our model, when our number one customer--eBay--became our biggest competitor. How do you do that? I lived through an amazing experience over the next four years.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

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What Nimble is, is a web-based solution that unified contact, calendar, and the way you communicate with those people, which also integrates social listening and engagement, all in a single place, so you can attract and retain the right customers. What it did uniquely, is it also integrated contacts and communications--all in single platform.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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Knewton – “Online adaptive test prep and virtual classroom platform&# - I love the innovation that is coming from the test prep industry. Assistly “Multi-channel customer support and management service&# – this is another industry I love and I specifically love the team at Assistly. Other deals. Enter Xobni.

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Entrepreneurs And Startups Drive Future Work Trends

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The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.