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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). He is already increasing our deal flow in key areas in “the quantified self” and digital media and begun working operationally with existing companies. You can follow Greg on Twitter here.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

Digital Media was an obvious theme because it’s one in which LA (where I’m based) and NY (where I spend a lot of time) have strong assets, companies and management teams. While the media industry is driven by a combination of subscriptions and advertising – it’s clear that the latter plays a unique role in media.

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APRIL 28, 2010

They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Boy, there has been a lot of innovation in the eCommerce space in the past few years with GroupOn, HauteLook, Gilt Groupe and others. I first heard about the company from Dave McClure and have tracked it on the sidelines a bit since then.

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JUNE 28, 2011

That said, Amazon – through AWS – even without strong competition is as wonderful an experience as Amazon the eCommerce retailer feels to you as an online shopper. I’m just in awe of what they’ve enabled and baffled that the media doesn’t give this more focus. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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JANUARY 24, 2016

I knew that every media company I backed and every eCommerce company I worked with was getting significantly more engagement in FB than in Twitter so I figured the same had to be true for me as a blogger but I wasn’t sure how to make the transition. So I became more interested in experimenting with Facebook.

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MAY 4, 2010

eCommerce is hot again! It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x the funding and market coverage.

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MARCH 27, 2011

We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. They are an open-source & SaaS provider of eCommerce solutions. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term. Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Products like awe.sm (I’m an investor) will help you manage the efficacy of your social media marketing campaigns. AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They’ve worked with a few small companies like Zynga, Playdom, GroupOn and TopSpin Media. What is the mix of revenue between ads, subscriptions, digital downloads & ecommerce. If you have this sort of need – check ‘em out. </end of plug> 4.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others.

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