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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

Tonight’s event at the 5A5 Steak Lounge in San Francisco was even better. The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Qual Canal: service that allows you to track conversations about TV shows in social media. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click. Oh, one more thing.

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. 1) Industry reports. 3) OnePagers.io.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. That podcast is included here along with a transcript. Bill Gurley : Great.