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The Crowd Has Spoken: Check Out The Coolest US Tech Companies

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About a decade ago, when Yahoo! I recall speaking with then VP of Marketing Karen Edwards about Yahoo's success. She was adamant that one the primary reasons Yahoo beat its initial competitors, including Lycos, Excite and AltaVista, was because (paraphrasing), "Yahoo was the coolest company in Silicon Valley.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links.

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When Intent And Content Align, Online Ads Suck A Whole Lot Less

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At Rincon Venture Partners , we have a laser focus on identifying groundbreaking adtech and business productivity SaaS solutions. When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! and Overture Services. Share and Enjoy.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. And they made an early investment in Yahoo.“ “….a Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. More Products. Whats Hot Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. what’s hot? Star Trek Contest. Primary Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newsletters. Live at the Apple Event: iPad Mini (and more?).

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. He formerly served as Director of Product Management for Vocus (VOCS), a global PR and marketing technology provider, where he drove product platform strategy and roadmap execution for a variety of small business products including PRWeb, the leading online news distribution service.