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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

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only notified them of potential IP infringement two weeks ago on February 27, 2012 (as described in the lawsuit) and Facebook heard about it through the media rather than in private. It is more remarkable for a large, well-known company that’s an actual operating business like Yahoo! ’s suit is actually pretty rational.

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The Future of Internet & Cars

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In a world where a human isn’t the primary operator, you will have more visually impaired or physically handicapped persons driving themselves or more elderly persons or even children. Internet connectivity is turning them into a more individualized and more comprehensive kind of media platform.

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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

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Again there’s three fundamental ways to make money in consumer-facing internet businesses: you can sell people stuff in a physical realm (e-commerce), you can indirectly monetize consumer attention (media or ad-based), or you can provide online software & services that consumers pay for (premium services).

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Netflix / Qwikster Split Was Brilliant (and Necessary)? 2 Long Term.

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Lots of us woke up this morning to an email from Reed Hastings about Netflix splitting it’s streaming and DVD-by-mail businesses into two separate operations (each w/ it’s own brand). September 19, 2011. If you haven’t seen it yet already his more in depth blog post is here. They’re both right.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

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How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. – All of Facebook’s ad revenue comes from the Facebook.com website. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA.

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

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The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). The pipeline of companies in registration has continued to grow.

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