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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. This has been a very welcome addition.

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You raises $25M to fuel its AI-powered search engine

TechCrunch

And the recently debuted YouWrite, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3 , can be prompted to write essays, blog posts and even boilerplate letters. At the corporate level, privacy-forward features like Apple’s App Tracking Transparency threaten to disrupt the behind-the-scenes mechanics of many ads, while regulators in the U.S.

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Why So Many Small Emerging Managers Don’t Use Placement Agents

David Teten VC

Greycroft in 2010 also had an experienced team, but didn’t either. Similarly, Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund highlights in her blog how she personally completed 345 meetings in a nine-month period for the firm’s first $11.5 Placement agents have to offer their investor network a range of funds to support themselves.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. The build “implicit social networks.&# LendingClub.

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Should Small Emerging Managers Use Placement Agents?

David Teten VC

Greycroft in 2010 also had an experienced team, but didn’t either. Similarly, Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund highlights in her blog how she personally completed 345 meetings in a nine-month period for the firm’s first $11.5 Placement agents have to offer their investor network a range of funds to support themselves.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2022

TechCrunch

Kite struggled to pay the bills, founder Adam Smith revealed in a postmortem blog post , running into engineering headwinds that made finding a product-market fit essentially impossible. Sebastian Thrun at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. Kitty Hawk had understandably high hopes when it launched in 2010. Kitty Hawk. Onward Mobility.

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