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A Hack for Technical Interviewing

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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

So Twitter is a media business given nearly 90% of their revenue is advertising and the company expects “data licensing revenue to decrease as a percentage of our total revenue over time” Facebook is a media business. Why are media businesses so valuable? A couple things factor into this.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. The contextual ad market was attractive.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Moneyball,” of course, refers of to the 2003 book by Michael Lewis (and the 2011 film starring Brad Pitt) about the Oakland A’s baseball team—and how general manager Billy Beane began using obscure baseball statistics and a new kind of computer-generated analysis to find under-appreciated talent and build a winning team on a shoestring budget.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. STARTING IT UP.

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

It is the B2B advertiser’s Mecca, but it is an undeserved market when it comes to user experience and consolidation of services. Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. CEO Seth Sternberg ?