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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model. I look forward to the next phase of our business. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Page 3: Competition. Page 5: Financials.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

It soaked up all of our development resources and didn’t allow us to focus on what we felt our company strategy was. note: my internal friends at Salesforce tell me that they’ve really fixed this now and internal dev teams are much more focused on bigger, more strategic development). We had to do intense training sessions.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In this area I’ve developed another philosophy that guides my investment decisions and forms a lot of the premise that I debate in our internal partners’ meetings when I’m advocating that we invest in a company. But what about markets? But be sure that along your ascent they’re going to notice you and respond.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

It required content sites to develop totally new content. Everybody and their mothers are coming into my offices proclaiming that their developing the latest iPhone App. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps. Or would it?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube). Having business models that aren’t only ad-based. For starters I’d like to tell you what I tell every startup that wants to “build a YouTube business.” I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post.

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JUNE 28, 2010

I’ve already started the business modeling. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. I spent a couple of days hanging out in DogPatch San Francisco and I was both impressed and envious. I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles. Venture Financings we Discussed. Total raised: $18.3mm.

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MAY 23, 2012

The mobile world brings enormous business opportunities and changes to business models that were unthinkable when VCs made investments ten years ago that produced the last decade of results. Search for a restaurant, book a table, eat in 30 minutes. Search for movies times, book your tickets, see a show. And the future?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2015

I was recently contacted by an entrepreneur who was consider a few different business models for his company. The develop so much conviction that they can solve it that they do the most difficult thing one can do with one’s ego. ” I responded.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). This feature is in development right now.

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MARCH 3, 2013

But while universities are developing online content they are not fundamentally disrupting leaning because the method of delivery is not a new business model. We talked about how business school historically hasn’t positioned entrepreneurs well for success. “Online education is truly going to kill us.”

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JUNE 29, 2011

It is not uncommon to see a team out of Utah, Texas or for that matter Finland with 8-10 developers build iPhone apps that get 10′s of millions of downloads and doing hundreds of millions of monthly page views. You can’t scale a large business quickly on your $500,000 alone. Not to mention providing the capital for growth.

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JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Targeting SMB’s (small & medium businesses). Social network app developer and ad network. Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. Mo’s other degree was English, mine was Political Science.

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JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Twitter = amazing business & marketing engine for companies. How about if they knew how often I came to Vegas?

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MAY 7, 2011

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Communicating with the developers who write code.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

The launch of their new Boxee Box in November and the user acceptance of that will be telling for their future development. But the whole market will develop more slowly as we watch this bum fight take place. Or can we develop more fragmented content to meet the needs of fragmented audiences and interest groups?

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