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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – February 2012

VC Cafe

The Petah Tikva-based company was founded in 2005. through its GE Healthymagination Fund, an equity fund of GE Capital and GE Healthcare. ATX BUYS ISRAELI TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS START-UP. ATX Networks Inc. is buying multimedia transmission solutions developer Arcos Technologies Ltd. for $26 million.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – February 2012

VC Cafe

The Petah Tikva-based company was founded in 2005. through its GE Healthymagination Fund, an equity fund of GE Capital and GE Healthcare. ATX BUYS ISRAELI TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS START-UP. ATX Networks Inc. is buying multimedia transmission solutions developer Arcos Technologies Ltd. for $26 million.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

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. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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

Gust

In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the startup does a priced equity round at a high pre-money valuation – “high” meaning above the cap, which is often a heavily negotiated term. (The

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Kupietzky has spoken extensively on the value of domain names and has appeared on CNN and CNBC and has been quoted by numerous print sources including Investors Business Daily , The New York Times and The Los Angeles Business Journal. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Apart from his accomplished business career, Mr.

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My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

Back in 2005 we started a venture firm called OATV, O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, myself, my partner Tim O’Reilly, and my partner Mark Jacobson. The nine teams we have people in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin and Atlanta. I think that’s dangerous. So, we developed a new kind of investment instrument.