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

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In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 We just finished the second year in Boston. So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round).

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. round closed Feb 2005. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

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I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley. We’ve moved >$1b in resources from the corporate sector to nonprofits. 3 specific issues: 1. How we embrace technology for good. There are 1.4m-1.6m in aggregate commitments.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

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It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Regarding social networking, Yahoo! Read More ».

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.