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Mobile Internet Apple Facebook

SoCal CTO

The analysts at Morgan Stanley have produced a report that’s quite good reading on some of the major trends concerning mobile web. More than Mobile Internet I think they had trouble coming up with a name and settled for Mobile Internet even though it isn’t a great choice. Those things likely are not mobile.

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One Simple Way to Eliminate Distractions in a Board Meeting

Both Sides of the Table

How to Deal with Electronic Distractions Of course the biggest competition you have with the attention of your board members is their mobile phones. Announce at the start of the meeting that you’d like the board meeting to be “electronics free” including mobile phones, laptops or tablets. You can solve this if you’re willing to.

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Future Focused Mobile App Ribbon Launches With Funding

Tech Zulu Event

Today, Ribbon launches their mobile application to take us beyond our now traditional social connections to allowing us a glimpse into the future. Users explore their future plans by either spinning the Ribbon Reel or sliding an intuitive time bar. Apps & Software iOS iPhone Mobile Startups SXSW 2013 App funding iPad Ribbon SXSW'

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

Both Sides of the Table

I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. I think the norm in the industry is still to see Powerpoint slides and I wouldn’t hold this against anybody.

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My Chat with Dan Primack of PEHub

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We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million.

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Chumby Launches On Android

socalTECH

Chumby's software runs mini apps for viewing stock quotes, weather, video clips, slide show, and other information. ,/p>. According to the firm, its app--available on the Android Market for $4.99--brings the firm's software to Android 2.2

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. Summary: Cheap, mobile, social, global, always-on, one-click-purchase =. Where are we today? and hasn’t abated.