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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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Or maybe you’re trying to dramatically change the way TV is consumed, like Boxee or TV advertising works on the Internet, like Hulu. It’s developing a differentiated product in a market where you can demonstrate value to your customers – whether they’re paying or not. That includes me.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. This turns out to be one of the real differentiators for Twitter. So they went after controlling the user clients.

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