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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Example of publishers include: moviefone, Fandango, Jingle, SayNow, and voice blogs. Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month. -Web

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

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We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. It’s needed for Fandango, RottenTomatoes, Movies.com, Lunch.com and scores of other companies. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. We all know about IMDB.