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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

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02:00 PM: Andrew Huff (Online News of Tomorrow) & Mark Milian (The Los Angeles Times) Studio SX – ([link]. The 26-year-old CEO and co-founder of the innovative online music service Spotify, Ek has been characterized as a serial entrepreneur. But will the titans of P2P prevail? Tuesday, March 16th.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

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Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. Attempts at “moving up the stack&# – In 1997 I led a project to help senior management at British Telecom define its Internet strategy. Nobody can predict 100% what the future of television will be so I won’t pretend that I know the answers.