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Interview with David Sacks, Geni and Yammer

socalTECH

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. Most social networking sites have a problem with having lots of pageviews, but advertising that isn't very valuable.

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

socalTECH

That''s why people tend to gravitate towards SMS messages, rather than something like email. You can administrate policies around lifespan, so that all messages expire after some amount of time on a mobile device, you can de-provision people if they leave the network, and you can even PIN lock it at the app level.

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10 Apps & Tools for Maximizing Personal Efficiency

Frank Addante

Sanebox (Email Organization) : Service that uses algorithms to organize your email into what’s important and what’s not. YouMail (Voicemail Automation): Voicemail service that transcribes your voicemail into text and sends you an email and/or text message. It works amazing well. Tips: Trust it.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

socalTECH

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. CRM systems today don't do a good job of even integrating email, much less social. You have to BCC messages to even get them into the system.

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To the Moon!

Eric Greenspan

If you’ve ever received an email from me, you’d know that I always sign my emails with “to the moon.&# Borrowed from the Honeymooners, I’m shooting for the moon in my business venture. Our Tech News radio show on both CBS and ABC radio networks are going great. There really isn’t much else to it.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions. million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. million Raised.