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		<title>Managed Video Goes Mainstream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the inaugural Managed Video as a Service Summit, hosted by Envysion at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder (for those of you not familiar with the concept of managed video as as service, you can read my explanation here).   There was great turn-out for the event, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=688</link>
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		<title>News From the Portfolio</title>
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Congratulations to Taligen Therapeutics, who was recently named the University of Colorado Bioscience Company of the Year.  You can read about it here.


Victors &#38; Spoils released a new campaign for Virgin America to mark Virgin&#8217;s first move into Canada.  The promotion allows Virgin to use crowdsourcing to identify their new brand ambassador.  You can read about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=669</link>
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		<title>A Conversation with Todd Woloson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Todd Woloson is a Boulder based serial entrepreneur with a unique perspective on the relationship between venture capitalists and the companies in which they invest.
After graduating from Denver University Law School in 1994, Todd was a founding partner at Canyon Capital, an early stage venture fund located in Denver.   After working with several start-ups in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=657</link>
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		<title>The Need For Intellectual Honesty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most venture capitalists will tell you that when they invest, they are investing as much in a management team as a business plan.  Nowhere is this more true than in the world of early stage investing, where management must possess both a commitment to vision and an ability to adapt to constantly changing circumstances.
When we make an early stage investment, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=635</link>
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		<title>The Shifting World of Advertising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have watched any TV at all in the last couple of weeks, then you have probably seen the new ad campaign by DISH Network.  It is a clever campaign that features two astronauts floating in outer space while they flip the &#8220;Free H.D.&#8221; switch on the DISH satellite (see video below).  The campaign has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=607</link>
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		<title>HAWKS WIN!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[                                                       
Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, my buddies and I lived and died with the fate of the Blackhawks.   When we were young, we would spend hours on the ice or out in the driveway, mimicking the moves of our favorite players, and echoing the radio calls of Pat Foley and Dale Tallon.
Throughout the eighties, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=573</link>
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		<title>Time Kills Deals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While it is one of the most over-used phrases in the business world, I was reminded again last week that it is also one of the most true.
The bottom line for anyone trying to get a transaction closed, is that momentum is your best ally.  Whether you are on the buy side, the sell side, or simply trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=538</link>
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		<title>If A River Runs Through It&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, I attended a conference in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.  Since Steamboat is a good three hour drive from Boulder, I left home around 6:00 am for a 10:00 am start.  On my way out the door, I decided to throw my fly fishing gear in the back of the car &#8212; after all, a guy never knows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=516</link>
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		<title>News from the portfolio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple noteworthy happenings in the portfolio:

Victors &#38; Spoils celebrated their six month anniversary (I know, it sounds a little bit like a high school romance, but start ups age in dog years, so six months matters). In this blog post you can read about what they have already accomplished, which includes developing a creative team of over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=510</link>
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		<title>Growing Smart (Part II)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LIMITING CONSTRAINTS
In the beginning, every start up business has an endless number of hurdles that it must overcome in order to survive.  But as growth becomes a reality, and management is able to look out beyond the next 30 days, there are always a few issues that stand out as the biggest limiting factors between current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=495</link>
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		<title>Growing Smart (Part I)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NECESSARY CHAOS
In almost every start up company I have worked with, there is sense of chaos that pervades the organization – particularly in the early days.  The reason is simple: all of the company resources are focused on the validation of the underlying business proposition (i.e., will someone pay for what we are making/providing?).  As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=481</link>
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		<title>Al Gore Invented Crowdsourcing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, not really.  But Gore did announce at last week&#8217;s Outfront Conference in New York that Current Media, where he currently serves as Chairman, will soon be unveiling a new concept called &#8220;Crowdsourced TV.&#8221; 
Although no details were offered, it is widely assumed that the new concept will offer creative content generated by Current Media&#8217;s existing online community.  Think You Tube [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=474</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in your Anti-Portfolio?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One inevitable aspect of being in the venture capital business is living with the ones that got away.  Every vc out there has passed on at least one deal that has gone on to become a big winner.  If they tell you differently, then they are either new to the profession, or in serious denial. 
We all deal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=461</link>
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		<title>Angels Fight Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an update to my last post about the Financial Reform Bill, the Angel Capital Association is now reporting that Senator Dodd will be introducing amendments addressing at least two of the three issues relating to early stage investors.
According to peHUB, after word of the original provisions leaked out, &#8220;vc bloggers took to their keyboard with furious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=448</link>
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		<title>Angels Under Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t want to beat a dead horse on the Dodd Financial Reform Bill, but more and more disturbing details continue to emerge as people actually get through the 1,300 page piece of proposed legislation.  John Maudlin, writing in his Frontline Newsletter, points out three provisions that could spell the end of angel investing as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisamarks.com/?p=435</link>
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