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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

They also couldn’t have asked for a better syndicate of investors. Both groups signed up for the deal, as did Lerer Media Ventures, and several other prominent angels—including Josh Stylman and Pete Hershberg, who backed my previous company. We met the next day, along with his partner, Jared Hecht.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does. 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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How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud

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Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! There he heads product definition, marketing, and sales of the Tiggzi , a platform for mobile development. It’s where social user-generated content sits, where forward-thinking creators place their tools. As businesses ask “What’s our mobile strategy?”

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