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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky. We got the round done with some great names around the table--Jason Calacanis, Chris Sacca, and General Catalyst. In fact, my history with Rob and Backupify goes back almost ten years, well before the idea of cloud backup was ever a glimmer in anyone''s eye.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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T ool: Curalate URL: Curalate.com What it does: Monitors and measures traffic from “visual-based platforms”—namely (for now, at least) Pinterest. First Name. Company Name. * Mergers and Acquisitions. and the impact of those for our traffic.” Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. Digital Editions.

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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

The Startup Magazine

Hoque notes the company’s ongoing success with blockbuster medicines and vaccines with household names, such as Zithromax, Lipitor and Viagra. It augmented its research by building its brands, pipeline and profile through major acquisitions. Disruptive Innovation Defined.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Domain Name/Basic Site. COMPANY AOL COMPANY|AOL.