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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. Regarding social networking, Yahoo! I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. Most companies dont come close to their rose colored financial models prepared when going out for Series A financing. ProfessorVC.

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

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One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. million in venture financing. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. I’m now in my second founder/CEO role, having raised more than $18.5

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

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And maybe you heard of a tiny Linux-based mobile software designer Google bought in 2005, called Android Inc.? GLIIF, LLC is a Hot Silicon Valley Startup designed to disrupt QR Code usage in advertising. It just seems to me that having a great idea without Silicon Valley connections becomes an obstacle. or Twitter.