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Interview with Scott Saunders, Payoff.com

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Well, you shouldn't have to be -- or at least, that's the premise behind Payoff.com (www.payoff.com), a new startup launching today. To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. I built up the company, the Walz Group, with partners.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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He started his career as a lawyer (he even clerked for a supreme court justice!) This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Total raised: $30mm.

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

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I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack.

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