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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Since it launched in 2009 it has funded 86,000 startups and raised well over $400,000,000. It was anti-social in nature. The final question is what happens to our data when we die?

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, from gay social network to design, we made the decision within 10 days to focus exclusively on our new One Thing, and we set a rule that not one person on the team could still do the old thing.

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Stuck in the middle with you (an uncut rant)

VC Cafe

Aggregated, that’s a lot of money. The top 100 web domains worldwide in January 2009 (according to a report from Comscore) shows that most of the leading sites in terms of unique monthly users break down into the following categories: owned by behemoth companies (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay, Apple, AOL, etc).

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Previous Israeli exhibitors lists are available MWC 2009 and MWC 2010. Flash Networks’ Harmony My-i is a phone-top toolbar that provides a user-friendly interface to access personalized and targeted content while browsing the open Internet. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% And they get a few million.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. People price differentiate all the time. Wouldn’t that be their argument?