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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. The build “implicit social networks.&# Enter P2P lending. In business you spend your life in email.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

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If you’re working at a startup and the founding team is promising that they’ll “get around to creating an employee stock option plan&# soon – demand it now. In the era of social networking if you can’t figure out how to get intro’d to me you probably aren’t cut out to be an entrepreneur.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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They built in a feature called “auto scaling&# that monitored for traffic spikes and automatically provisioned new servers on demand and decommissioned them if your traffic surge subsided. I have talked in the past about other layers that are emerging particularly in social networking and mobile applications.

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