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our journey to an oversubscribed fund iii for first check enterprise

BeyondVC

This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996. We set out to build boldstart at the height of mobile app mania and viral growth and were faced with questions about our focus on enterprise and NYC. boldstart iii announced portfolio from Ed Sim.

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Is 2009 the year of mobile computing?

BeyondVC

  Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia.    More importantly, will there be any grand slam venture capital opportunities in wireless?    I learned a lot from that investment. 

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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