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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. -Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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Banks are particularly helpful with raising money from “strategic&# investors, which often means corporate investors such as Intuit, SAP, AMD, Salesforce.com and the like. Current round: $19.8mm Series B led by Accel with existing investors Floodgate and First Round Capital. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ.

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