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Why Did I Invest in the Company Pose?

Both Sides of the Table

He wanted to be an entrepreneur. When I was an entrepreneur I had a term sheet with True Ventures (my second company) and thought highly of them. I’ve long been a believer in technology that “captures” new media types: photos & video. I am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 I still do.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Social Networking in Web 2.0:

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Pathbrite Shows the Fruits of Having a Crystal Clear Value Proposition

Tech Zulu Event

One thing I noticed from our previous interview is that Heather is one smart entrepreneur. For a first-time entrepreneur, she is not only getting it right and getting “base hits”, but she is slugging balls out of the park! ” Pathbrite’s technology is providing a smarter, more flexible, and Web 2.0

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005.

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Social Fund-raising Website GoFundMe Buys Detroit Rival CrowdRise

Xconomy

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson. Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester founded GoFundMe in San Diego in 2010.

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Interview with Edward Park, Insteegram

socalTECH

My previous company did production runs for small clothing lines, promos, and trade show giveaways, and one of the things we realized it's such a volume industry, and the technology of screen printing has been around for 10,000 years, developed by the Egyptians and the Chinese. was community and content, we think Web 3.0

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Single Sign-on Startup Opportunity Has Passed

Startup Professionals Musings

The latest type of solution is called a “web profile aggregator” built as a portal to a group of similar applications or premium content which can be accessed through a common login. Tags: entrepreneur startup single sign-on business. Examples include FindMeOn.com, Mugshot, and Naymz. A new one I have used is called iLogon.

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