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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Advertising clients include: Sony, Microsoft, NBC, and Clicker.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Businesses are also one-click from advertising through Google and now Facebook.

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[Interview] Imaginary Friends Studios (Is More Real Than You Think)

YoungUpstarts

I was officially trained in graphic design and advertising but with a strong passion in art since young. That was 2005, and I have been with IFS ever since, growing the company and doing the things that I love, namely illustrating and designing cool concepts for the games industry. Tell us a little about yourself.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Does advertising work in the social networking world? Can social networking be a money-maker for companies?

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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From there most websites unfortunately don’t know what to really do with it so it basically just becomes a way to log you in and potentially allow advertisers to serve up more targeted (and therefore higher CPM) ads. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. I totally agree. For Meebo 1.3%

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10 Predictions About the Future of Ecommerce

mashable.com

Advertise Advertise. Personalized shopping is changing the way we find, buy and recommend products to our friends already. Today, we cant even begin to comprehend the ways well produce products years from now. Amazons product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. Entertainment. Whats This?

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Want to Work for a Startup? 10 Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

mashable.com

Advertise Advertise. How does your product apply to my role? Do your homework before the interview by signing up for a free trail of the startups product. Make a list of all the different questions you have about the product based on your experience. About Us Jobs Advertise Subscribe Privacy Terms.