At least now we know how bad it was. The trick is to find a way to make the cheaters pay.
there is a wonderful group of creators who believe that everything is broken and that technology, creativity and guts can actually fix it.
As a result, VCs have moved away from the earlier, riskier stages of financing startups, accounting for the 48 percent decline in seed capital deals in 2011 over the prior year, according to the MoneyTree Report. A mere $919 million was invested in 396 start-ups.
In fact, the chief marketing officer will soon control more tech spending than the chief information officer.
WPP said Tom Bedecarré, the chairman of AKQA, would also become president of a new arm called WPP Ventures, which will be based in Silicon Valley and will look for digital investment opportunities.
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WPP Acquires AKQA to Beef Up Digital Marketing - NYTimes.com Hoo boy. That’ll be fun. (via rickwebb) |
