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IAC: Going Local

Posted on Thursday, Jun 21st 2007

IAC (Nasdaq: IACI) is an interactive conglomerate operating more than 60 diversified brands in sectors being transformed by the Internet, online and offline. IAC’s mission is “to harness the power of interactivity to make daily life easier and more productive for people all over the world”. The Company’s business can be classified into five segments:

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Cracking the Online Video Monetization Nut: Adap.tv CEO Amir Ashkenazi (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Jun 21st 2007

There are several very interesting aspects to keep in mind when considering Shopping.com. First, the comparative shopping marketplace was a low-barrier-to-entry marketplace to enter, leading to significant competition. Second, revenue generating strategies were difficult to figure out in the 1997-1999 timeframe. Online advertising as a revenue model had barely started to take off. Finally, once

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Venture Capital for MicroFinance: Chris Brookfield (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Jun 21st 2007

Chris Brookfield is the Investment Director at Unitus Investment Management Company. He has been a venture capital and private equity investor his entire professional career. In 2004 he co-founded Open Water Investors. Chris has also been an Associate at Redleaf Venture Management, a Silicon Valley seed stage venture investor, and is familiar with pure play

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Cracking the Online Video Monetization Nut: Adap.tv CEO Amir Ashkenazi (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 20th 2007

Amir Ashkenazi is the founder of Adap.tv, as well as the former founder and CTO of Shopping.com. Adap.tv is in the midst of the Online Video Advertising fray, on which I have recently written quite a bit. In fact, Danny Cohen suggested this conversation after reading one of those pieces about one of Adap.tv’s competitors,

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It’s About Place (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 20th 2007

by Cal McElroy, Guest Author Location is fundamental to our personal and business lives – yet it is a concept that is easily and often misunderstood. The Oxford Dictionary defines this word as “the point or extent of space that is occupied by a person, place or thing”. So a place is not a location

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Rolling up an Online Ad Agency Powerhouse: AKQA CEO Tom Bedecarre (Part 9)

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 20th 2007

As more and more media moves to a digital format, the role of digital advertising firms will continue to increase. Firms which have hybrid experience, who truly understand brand management and are able to capitalize on online efficiency (buy more ad space for fewer dollars) are going to excel. AKQA will be an interesting firm

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2 Billion Convergence Devices by 2015

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 19th 2007

A recent Forrester report puts a number on the projections for the laptop replacement convergence device trend we have been discussing in our iPhone and the Future series. 2 Billion. While it took 27 years to reach one billion PCs, Forrester says it will take only five years to reach the next billion, due to

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Portaga’s TripSync: Simplifying Business Travel (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 19th 2007

Robert Kost is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Portaga. In the early 1980s, he worked as an analyst with the Office of Technology Assessment of the US Congress. He later joined Prodigy (IBM/Sears/CBS) in the mid-80s, securing patents that are today at the heart of Internet innovation, and writing the first online banking,

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