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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. We're able to help throw some gasoline on the fire, plus also help people even at the earliest stages of a business. That's part one.

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. I spent 18 yars, and Jonathan a new less, building quite a few consumer Internet businesses. We were working on a portfolio of consumer Internet brands. We raised $3.5M

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad.