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Social Shopping (continued)

BeyondVC

Congratulations to my friend Gary Vaynerchuk of the Wine Library for his acquisition of Cork’d (see Mashable and the Alarm Clock for coverage). While the Alarm Clock calls this a roll up in the wine space, I view this as the beginnings of the return of the 3 Cs (content, community, and commerce) with a year 2007 flair.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week. Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Over its 13 year life the web has vastly changed from primarily static pages to dynamic database driven automated (“rendered”) web page serving, which Drupal excels at. Acquia, Inc.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus , Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network.

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How To Convert Visitors Who Are Considering Switching From a Competitor

ConversionXL

While you might not have access to your competitor’s customer database, there are more than a few methods you can use to find out what your competition’s customers think. (competitors, window-gazers, people doing research, etc). Surveying Your Competition’s Customers. Conduct A Direct Survey Using Facebook Ads.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Provigent is Broadcom’s eighth acquisition in Israel, and brings the value of its acquisitions here to $1 billion. Snaptu, which was founded in 2007, is Facebook’s first ever Israeli acquisition and its second international purchase. Broadcom, which has a market cap of $21.7

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Web Analytics: Frequently Asked Questions And Direct Answers

Occam's Razor

If you want to do churn analysis, as defined above, then you don't want GA as much as you want your back-end ERP / "Orders" database that has your customer history, and just a couple of acquisition signals (campaign and source come to mind). You blogged that it wasn't it's time… yet in 2007: [link].