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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

They also couldn’t have asked for a better syndicate of investors. What you might lose in the power of search and virality, you gain in the additional ways users will interact with you. Personally, I’m incredibly psyched about the scope of the vision and feel very lucky to be working with such a promising young team.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. Filtering your search by pedigree is a good start. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Eric Bahn , Beat The GMAT.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. In the old publish & subscribe days of blogging people read your content when you wrote it and then it lay dormant until discovered by somebody performing a Google search. Twitter is information discovery. Look at Quora.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

We were post product and had viral growth, albeit at very small scale and still had to evangelize the concept of a vital coefficient w/ most investors. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. link] leehower. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

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How we can fix online video advertising’s weakest links

The Next Web

No matter how you look at it – bandwidth consumption, number of viewers per hour, virality – online video has taken over the Web. Shifting online display and search budgets towards online video is a major part of this astounding growth, but the market’s real upside is offline budgets. billion online videos before the day ends !

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Are Google-Scale Outcomes More Frequent? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I think one of the key takeaways is that the exponential growth of Internet connected devices along with the strong viral loops of Facebook and Twitter have served as accelerants for these high growth companies. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. . | Filed under Uncategorized. link] Ashish Datta.

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), In search of Europe's next tech stars. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. we bought a $4 measuring spoon with an expected return of 1,000 times in the coming year. Small and medium businesses. (2).