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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. Online text book rental service.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN. Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. equity debate. Example: Netflix). Converts versus equity deals - Chris Dixon , August 31, 2010 There has been a debate going on the past few days over whether seed deals should be funded using equity or convertible notes (converts). Have convertible notes really won?

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