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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Richard De Silva started off as a journalist with the Washington Post after growing up in D.C. In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 So it is a combination of markets and people.

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

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I scan it for the most important messages to be sure nothing urgent has popped up. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. About six months ago I signed up for a service called PhoneTag run by Jamie Siminoff. I’m just getting started. I got rid of voicemail.

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How do I Really Feel About Anonymous Apps Like Secret?

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This was in part due to a tremendously busy 30-day period for me (in which my overall writing has been down) and in part the inevitability of knowing that weighing in just tees me up to take abuse on one anonymous app called Secret. In short I ended up having to deal with what is affectionally called on the Internet – trolls.

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Ventures

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For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company. I also grew up in Southern California, where I also went to business school.

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Capital

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For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company. I also grew up in Southern California, where I also went to business school.

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