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Fast Company’s Influence Project and Reputation Racketeering

This is going to be BIG.

I understand that Fast Company needs to generate some online traffic to stay alive, but how about doing it through actual journalism rather than just the business equivalent of those late 90’s “Type in the e-mail addresses of 5 people who might have a crush on you” apps. through some kind of algorithm?

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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

Both groups signed up for the deal, as did Lerer Media Ventures, and several other prominent angels—including Josh Stylman and Pete Hershberg, who backed my previous company. I acknowledged that most blogs were private and only read by a handful people—like on Live Journal and MySpace.

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Solving for Banner Blindness. Solve Media.

Both Sides of the Table

Rupert Murdoch, owners of The Wall Street Journal, has famously come down on the side of charging for content. The very smart Chris Fralic of First Round Capital is on the board and the angel list is a who’s who of early stage investments. They also raised VC from New Atlantic Ventures and AOL Ventures.

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Don’t Build a Content Ghost Town

This is going to be BIG.

The experience at the Wall Street Journal shouldn’t really be any different. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology.

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This Week in the New York Innovation Community – February 1st, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

RSVP: [link] 4:30PM A Shaq to the System: Tebow, Tiger and The New Online Realities of Sports Journalism The world of sports used to be ruled by the calendar - game dates, tournaments, TV events, with the odd DUI thrown in. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link].

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‘Stranger Things’ actor wants to spread the wealth around tbh, his vegan Nutella alternative

TechCrunch

One might wonder why Schnapp, with a reported $250,000 per episode salary in Stranger Things’s most recent season, would turn to crowdfunding to help fund the business when he could have just as easily bootstrapped or secured venture funding. Is the actor and his team hoping to capitalize on his popularity and influencer status?

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. Once the cycle has passed it’s harder to capitalize.

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