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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Top Tips for Streaming Services: Cutting the Cord the Smart Way

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Secret Codes: Here’s a handy list of codes for searching various genres on Netflix. Hulu/Hulu Plus. Hulu offers current shows ASAP. Pay to Watch: If you didn’t already know, paying a few bucks more a month will get you Hulu Plus without (hardly any) commercials. Price:$8 with ads, $12 without.

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Interview with Paige Craig, Betterworks

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We're not talking publicly about that yet, but the idea is to get away from the annual review, away from the quarterly review, and give everyone within and outside a company the ability to recognize people, up and down the chain, for doing great things in the workplace. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition.

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

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What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We caught on with the right product, at the right time.

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TZ & GR Present REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming

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TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. As President of Game Development and Operations at SGN, a leading cross platform game developer and distributor, Josh Yguado is responsible for development, marketing, and operations for all games. Josh Yguado - President SGN. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia).

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. As President of Game Development and Operations at SGN, a leading cross platform game developer and distributor, Josh Yguado is responsible for development, marketing, and operations for all games. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo.