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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

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First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. And the company that helped websites publish RSS? Twitter curates even wider.

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What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

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Nearly every entrepreneur has heard the refrain, "Get back to me when you have some traction,” while seeking funding. Note: The Triangle Of Evidence was stolen from Frank Foster , a friend, talented investor and Managing Director of DFJ Frontier , a successful, early-stage VC fund. Photo Credit: ralphbijker via Flickr.

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Here’s How You Get A VC To Pull Out Their Checkbook

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No VC Fit - Match your venture with appropriate funding source. How much money are you looking for, what will you do with it and what other funding sources (if any) do you already have secured? • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS.

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The Series A Crunch Is For Entrepreneurs Who Can’t Create Their Own Luck

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I was in a board meeting recently at Connexity when Dave Gross, the company''s Co-Founder and CEO, made an insightful observation regarding the shortage of Series A funds. The other primary factor contributing to the Series A shortfall is the concentration of venture capital funds in the hands of a shrinking number of large firms.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links.

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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

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Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS. As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks.

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YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund

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some of the money was spent by YouTubers to purchase homes and not create videos), the majority of the funds were properly deployed by the emerging community of professional YouTubers. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS.

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