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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

Through them, entrepreneurs can hook up with R&D resources in universities and companies, and get access to a robust support network that provides opportunities for visibility, growth and financing. Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.)

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. Many of these now-trendy Micro-VC funds began as individual angel investors who gradually grew up and started small funds (myself included).

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies.

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Capital Provider Perspectives: Rumi Ventures and Crowdvest

The Startup Magazine

But what that means in reality is I love helping awesome entrepreneurs find solutions to tough problems, create jobs that support families, and build their communities. I own several finance related companies. My website says I am “pathfinding the bold technologies that will change our world.” Let’s just try.”. The rest will follow.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. Finance Jobs |. Why Register?

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How the New York City innovation community can still lose (and what you can do about it)

This is going to be BIG.

As a Brooklyn native who has never lived outside the five boroughs—and someone who left Big Finance—I feel a special kind of pride over what’s gone on here in the last six+ years. There isn’t a single person in the NYC that is more excited than I am about how far we’ve come.