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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Seed-round investment.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital.

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Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness)

crowdSPRING Blog

The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google. Investors will be bullish on startups.

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8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

Both Sides of the Table

“The Internet saved my life. The Internet really re-connected Joanne with her former working self. “There are so many places you can go on the Net where you can find your community. Certainly if you look at eCommerce & social media – women are the ones using these products.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (Jeremy Liew)(lead), with existing investors: U.S. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era.

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Interview I did about Forward Partners for Soldo

The Equity Kicker

Nic is also the author of one of Europe’s most popular venture capital blogs – www.theequitykicker.com. It’s not too much of an overstatement to say that, 20 years ago, at the beginning of the internet, you could put almost any quality of experience online. Let’s start with the obvious question. Absolutely.

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