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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. So we only had to raise $500,000 to get going and again hardware ate just over 10% of the round. Other Layers.

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

Tech Zulu Event

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. in terms of time spent on the sites. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile: FourSquare and Skout. For years I saw companies pitching themselves as “mobile coupon companies&# and I never believed this would be a big idea.