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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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Still, I think that to succeed they really need to focus on vertical niches where they can differentiate and have more focus on content quality and user acquisition. They have come a long way since then. Their product direction and demo increased 10x.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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Another big driver according to Montgomery is that the tech industry has matured and is returning to its vertically integrated roots. As a result the bigger buyers will look to fill gaps in their vertically integrated offerings.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

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I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. It turns out that when you develop strong vertical content you often find you have great collaboration opportunities and don’t have to consider everybody a competitor.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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I think Twitter made a minor gaffe by announcing their Blackberry app and their acquisition of Atebits (Tweetie) before the Chirp conference. And I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management company. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks. Potential competitors: Gilt Groupe , ShoeDazzle. FTC is considering an investigation into Apple’s anti-competitive practices.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

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A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U. When Facebook was opening up their platform, these guys thought that it was an interesting way to do user acquisition and preference acquisition of individuals and that they would be able find a way to monetize it in commerce-oriented verticals.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. So I thought I would.