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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Users can send digital Giiv card with store credit (via SMS, for now) that is redeemable at retailer. Competitors: SMS gifting– KangoGift , Online/E-mail gifting: Lottay , GiftCertificates.com. OTHER DEALS: 1. BlockChalk.

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Some Perspective on Twitter vs. Meerkat

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Yet someone the raw nature of filming & consuming on mobile is new. Many people know this but in case you aren’t one of them: The smartest move in 2015 is to find the right opportunity to ask the user for their mobile phone number. The best mobile companies do this. It’s very intimate.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices. Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS). Read more: TechCrunch. Total raised: $17.0mm.

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What to do When a Tech Giant Decides to Eat Your Lunch

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We terminate to SMS. And currently the app-to-app messaging companies don’t offer free SMS. The WSJ recently talked about how messaging was a wedge that was leading to a decline in the lucrative telephony SMS business. We estimate that this messaging volume is more than 30x larger than Skype’s mobile messaging.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

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Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. Here’s how they did it … Mobile First —  It is now well understood that “mobile first” dominated the consumer Internet and we take this for granted.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Location Aware – According to Dick Costolo’s statements at CES, up to 40% of all Tweets are sent via mobile devices, which is a hugely powerful asset for Twitter. Since SMS has a maximum length of 160 characters, Twitter decided to limit you to 140 characters so that 20 could be reserved for other things.

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