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Social Networking and Business Value

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Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. He is known for being able to monetize the social web.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

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Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. “No choice at all!” Nice sweep!

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

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Google had no clue that they were going to make so much money in sponsored search. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. Geni.com beget Yammer. We’ve proven that through innovation and experimentation we can do significantly more revenue than we’re getting through Google AdSense.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. Time will tell.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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Knewton – “Online adaptive test prep and virtual classroom platform&# - I love the innovation that is coming from the test prep industry. And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. Tumblr – “Microblogging platform&#. Other deals. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email.

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

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Socially connected individuals and platforms that enable faster roll-outs of successful products. Payment ready consumers (Amazon, iTunes, PayPal) and businesses (Google AdWords, Square). And then they decided they wanted to be the Internet retailer of computing services so they created Amazon Web Services. All deflationary.

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