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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. These include making deposits, transferring funds, paying bills and managing stock portfolios. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. Small Business Loan Overview.

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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

Mattermark (a portfolio company) looked at the matriculation rates for a class of startups. Likewise, early-stage investors may not appreciate just how much follow-on support their portfolio companies will need. So, how have Version One portfolio companies done in this environment? 2016 for Version One companies.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

“This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company. was starting.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. On August 23, Stitch Fix announced that it had shipped its 100,000th Fix , and today the company announced that it has grown 500% since its last financing round this past February.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

billion mobile phones worldwide; within five years almost all of them will be more fully featured “smart&# phones offering better access to the web. Back in 1994, very few people would have predicted that the largest bookseller in the world would be a software company. There are currently 4.5 Software is eating the world.

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Cracking The Code: Software 2.0: How the use of internet is.

Cracking the Code

The web has brought simplicity and transparency in a world of complexity and opacity, empowering a new generation of public software companies like Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Webex and WebSideStory who learned how to take advantage of it. And this human touch is necessary even if you have a free demo on available on the web. 5:59 PM.