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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. It’s true that it’s cheaper to start companies now and cheaper to get distribution.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

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The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. In parenthesis is the cumulative distribution divided by called capital.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. My Journal.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector. Spotify came to the the US from Europe this year, and TaskRabbit and Outbrain just raised money to grow beyond the US. What’s Next in 2012….

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Invest in Israel Newsletter February 2011 Edition

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The company develops distributed antenna system (DAS) solutions for wireless telecommunications coverage inside buildings. million registered members as of November 2010, was established in 1999 and recently hit its 10 million answers. MobileAccess, formerly Foxcom Wireless, was founded in 1998.