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The Week in Review
Saturday
Everyone is wrong: The surprising advantage to being a working mom
A case for saying yes to YouTube Funding
What the data reveals about how to make SaaS secret sauce
Monday
This video shows why Vine is going to be a huge deal
Fred Wilson: For Foursquare, it’s not about the check-in. It’s about “maps with people in them”
Vine and #music show that Twitterers would rather talk than listen
Chris Hughes’ eventful first year at the New Republic
Virtual gaming headset Oculus Rift raises $16 million from Spark Capital, Matrix Partners
Fred Wilson on Twitter’s “huge, enormous” mistake
Fred Wilson: Venture capital as we know it will cease to exist
How Tennessee’s Southland Summit could topple SXSW
PandoMonthly New York with Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson, the full interview
Fullscreen raises a big Series A to prove that YouTube’s a viable platform
Whatever Facebook launches on Thursday, you’re going to hate it
Meet Work–Bench: New York’s first “post-accelerator” program for enterprise startups
Tuesday
The controversial Anu Shukla returns with RewardsPay
DailyLook reveals its secret to customer loyalty and high conversions: Sell looks, not items
Fred Wilson on why corporate VCs suck
The evolution of synth
Content marketing gets its magazine moment
Online, unplanned, and unorganized
Is Waze overvalued or is Foursquare undervalued?
Quantum venture firm QWave announces its first round of investments
Smalltime Crowdfunding Crooks: Tracing a Kickstarter fraudster to other crowdfunding scams
Lock ‘em down: Soluto expands to the iPhone to help small businesses become more secure
FiftyThree raises $15 million from Andreessen Horowitz to move beyond Paper
With 8 million users, Rounds is the Google Hangouts you’ve never heard of. Today it adds co-browsing
Quarterly Co. is back from the brink thanks to its new CEO, Netflix co-founder Mitch Lowe
Matrix Partners’ Antonio Rodriguez on his investment in Oculus Rift
Yesterday
Memo to non-Valley, non-NYC ecosystems: No one you want cares about the cost of living
Plug ‘em in: Let’s make electrical outlets a little smarter
WITN: “Can I go on record as saying this is a horrible idea?”
Kabam raising $50 million for employee liquidity amid IPO drought for game companies
News Flash: Rich people continue to like buying things
A new entrant in the search for the perfect mobile ad unit
Why you’re on a startup roller-coaster
Tech’s second boom: What’s different this time?
Well-played law of attraction between Grammy Award-winner Skylar Grey and Gigg’s CEO
Crittercism launches the Fathom Mobile Command Center to help large companies manage the shift to mobile
Enough with the news-reader apps – it’s time to support media that really matters
Fine menswear etailer Combat Gent raises $1.84M and adds former Gucci board member as Chairman
Monetizing content beyond eyeballs and clicks: Urtak rolls out ad products to cash in on online polling
Pindrop Security raises $11M from A16Z and others to help prevent phone fraud
