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MARCH 2, 2009

While it may seem hard to believe in such a dire hiring environment, one of our investments, LiveOps, has excess “demand” for workers. That’s right — excess demand for workers. For those of you that don’t know, LiveOps is a very, very cool company. Their core technology is a SAAS “contact center in cloud.” Just [.

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MARCH 9, 2009

“Little Joe never once gave it away Everybody had to pay and pay” — Lou Reed, Walk on the Wild Side The consensus seems to be that social networks have a monetization problem. On this topic, both the leading technology industry blogs and the world’s top news organizations agree. [.].

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MARCH 26, 2009

Mr. Geithner: In the late 1990′s, in response to the obvious financial shenanigans of large companies like Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, Washington handed us the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. I have no idea how effective Sarbanes has been at reducing fraud (it obviously did not prevent our current economic malaise), but I do know one thing. Sarbox created [.].

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