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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1. uh, hello!

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

software, songs, movies, web site content. _. Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. social network start up – trademark and copyright are more likely. Posted in Technology, Venture Capital. Examples. _. Trademark. _. Branding (i.e.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Thus is venture capital. Tempus Fugit. Folksonomy.

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The 50 Most Promising Israeli Startups in 2016

VC Cafe

Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). Taboola and Outbrain – Content distribution, discovery and recommendations (Raised approx. Plarium – Multi player games for social networks (Raised Unknown). 150M each).

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Quickly Unpacking Spotify’s Acquisition Of Gimlet Media

Haystack

Spotify will also get into commerce like its social network peers, but that’s a subject for another post.] However, podcasts are not songs, of course, and therefore not subject ot the same licensing, restrictions, or scarcity. 2/ Big Consumer Tech Cares About Audio. 3/ Audio As A Feature Of Streaming Services.

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

We were quite enamored with their marketplace for skilled global talent, and were amazed at how the tools in their online workplace allowed customers to hire, manage, and pay for work from distributed teams. The distribution power of their pervasive platform proved a remarkable vehicle for many companies; particularly games companies.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. We then spoke about startups.