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Our Investment in One Jackson: Fresh, Yet Familiar

Genuine VC

One Jackson is a new online children’s clothing retailer which is surprisingly fresh – all of its designs were created by independent designers and then curated with love from its community of parents. Her co-founder and CTO Yee Lee worked with both my partner Lee Hower and myself (at PayPal and Venrock, respectively).

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.

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New moderators and flair on Answers OnStartups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It takes love and devotion to curate a community like this, not only to delete spam but to help new members get involved, ask the right questions, and continue the spirit of constructive, respectful debate. Jay Neely of Social Strategist and co-founder of EasyImpress. Actually it's 2,000 people, with about 200 active daily.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. My own fascination with podcasts began with a warm recommendation from Pablo (founder of Antidote ). One of them is Alex Blumberg, founder of Gimlet Media.

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Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. We started off with Gangbusters in 2000. And then re-curating other people’s content, re-curating our content, words that I didn’t even know what they meant frankly.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. Read more: TechCrunch.

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. My own fascination with podcasts began with a warm recommendation from Pablo (founder of Antidote ). One of them is Alex Blumberg, founder of Gimlet Media.

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