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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. innovation in the U.S. China now has plenty of both.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Venture Financings we Discussed. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001. Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month. I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. innovation in the U.S. China now has plenty of both.

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Groupon Co-Founders to Teach at U of Chicago’s Booth School

Campus Entrepreneurship

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), The firm offers email subscribers a deal-of-the-day coupon at a local business, then encourages them to share it with their social networks.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. We do that primarily through leading financings.

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

Professor VC

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. million for the year, which is the first time it has been below $5 million since 2001, a sign that capital efficiency will be even more important than it has. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.