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    0 starsroberthd | Shared With: Everyone - 22 days ago | widget, startups
    Snipperoo: Widget Funding Gravy Train Picks Up Speed

    Quoted: Mpire Corporation, parent company of the WidgetBucks ad network, has snagged $10 million in a Series B investment round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

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    0 starsroberthd | Shared With: Everyone - May 14 2008 | facebook, google, startups, social networking
    Finding cracks in Facebook - Fortune

    Facebook is the one to bash these days. I'm skeptical that they'll loose their audience to GOOG's Friend Connect due to high switching costs. But they need to figure out how to monetize all this traffic soon though or else start looking for a YouTube style exit before buyers become convinced that social networks can't be monetized.

    Quoted: Facebook generated only $145 million in revenue last year, according to eMarketer, much of it from an ad deal with Microsoft. MySpace, by contrast, had ...

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    0 starsroberthd | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 29 2008 | music, jazz, seattle, startups
    Maceo Parker at Jazz Alley

    I'm thinking we need a StartPad field trip. Maceo describes himself as 2% jazz and 98% funky stuff.

    Quoted: Every week, this premier west coast club brings the greatest names in jazz to Seattle audiences.

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