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15 Business Leaders Share Their Experiences and Insights on Getting Through COVID-19

StartupNation

“In times of crisis, it’s imperative for startups to build a solid analytics strategy to understand how their businesses are functioning at a granular level. Times are tight, and companies are less inclined to take on the world themselves, nor are they able to innovate internally at every turn. Ramzi Jreidini , CEO, Handiss .

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network.

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Consumer investment fatigue

Tomasz Tunguz

Many of the promising marketing and media innovations of the past six years, daily deals, subscription ecommerce, social gaming and social media, have been struggling. Instead, investors are faced with a choice between two strategies. It’s too early to tell which strategy is better.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). That said I worry that V1 of the strategy isn’t a home run. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks.

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Overplay’s Wefunder Campaign brings in $1 million from Retail Investors, Funding Social Gaming AI-Powered Tech

American Entrepreneurship

Community Crowdfunding Platform brings multiple benefits to Social Gaming Startup Funding strategy plays an important role in how much and how quickly a startup receives funding. The team has introduced a major innovation to social gaming. They have the backgrounds that attract startup funding.

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What We Must Learn from Asia

Both Sides of the Table

My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I hope benefit the Southern California technology ecosystem. Motorola gave us in the US the RAZR (before they stopped innovating).

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Twitter had a fundamentally flawed strategy from the beginning. Mark: Apple is like China, they have introduced an incredibly amount of innovation to the market. Social currency. Defensibility in Software.