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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million.

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The R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator, Powered by Techstars

Feld Thoughts

R/GA creates advertising and marketing products based in technology and design and has earned countless accolades over the years, including Advertising Age’s “Digital A-List” and “Agencies of the Decade.” s Nike+ platform to 2010?s They are the force behind the opening title sequence for 1978?s s Superman to 2006?s

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Founded in 2007.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

It’s a dating website that is free for users and makes money from advertising. The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Advertising. The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded).

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

Duct Tape Marketing

With Google’s ability marry advertising with offers and a local portal this could prove very disruptive to Groupon, but also to many local portals services such as Yelp! The cities chosen for the City Page beta test closely align with the first Google Offers beta tests and can be supported by the local Google sales and support staff.

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[Review] YOUtility

YoungUpstarts

sources of information consulted in 2010 prior to buying something. Traditional ways include promoting one’s link on emails, websites, advertisements, and stores, as well as engaging one’s employees to be advocate. In fact, shoppers in 2011 need 10.4 If content is fire, social media is gasoline. Insourcing Youtility.