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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). Mistakes we made? Get stories written.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. Quick aside: how can VC’s invest in online businesses, digital media, social networks or mobile applications if they don’t actually use the products actively themselves? True story.) million were enormous.

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MAY 25, 2013

In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. I use social media. The industry isn’t dying. It is changing. And reinventing itself. And some firms will go under. And others will emerge. That’s normal. It’s a market, after all. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs.

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MAY 15, 2010

SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. OTHER DEALS. Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos. Joe Marchese and Willan Johnson are President and COO, respectively.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. Our 2000 fund is the single best fund of its vintage. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Products like awe.sm (I’m an investor) will help you manage the efficacy of your social media marketing campaigns. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. These days people would sooner fear Apple than Microsoft, proving that reality is stranger than fiction.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They’ve worked with a few small companies like Zynga, Playdom, GroupOn and TopSpin Media. They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election. as well as what drove the success of the campaigns. All viral adoption starts with one thing – great content.

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JUNE 12, 2010

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com. Factoid: 99% of its employees are musicians.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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