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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

Tonight’s event at the 5A5 Steak Lounge in San Francisco was even better. The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g, San Francisco, CA.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

ReadWriteStart

Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. Then Taariq Lewis from San Francisco, California, presented Stanzr, a lightweight online events platform specifically focused on moving qualified leads generated through webinars towards a close. He is seeing excellent results.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Qual Canal: service that allows you to track conversations about TV shows in social media. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click. Oh, one more thing.

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Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur)

pandodaily.com

Most important: I needed the time I spent at TechCrunch to learn what was powerful about new media. It’s hard for someone who has only worked in old media to get it. Likewise, I needed to distill what elements of old media weren’t broken and should be worked back into the blogosphere. Gregor Kennedy. off topic.