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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

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It is the oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria that is Tweeted before people even know a disruption may happen. We co-led the A-round with IA Ventures. We co-led the next round with IA Ventures without even asking other VCs to participate so we did an A-1 round. Asymmetric. Location Aware. Referral Traffic. Not so DataSift.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience. Startup accelerators modeled after YCombinator and Techstars sprouted up from NYC to Nigeria to New Delhi, spawning hundreds of new startups worldwide.