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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Israeli startup Qlipso Buys Almost-Bankrupt Veoh for its 14 Million Unique Users

VC Cafe

The acquisition is a bitter-sweet end to the story of Veoh, which has raised $70 million since getting funded in 2005 from institutional investors (Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, Shelter Capital and Spark Capital among others) and big media companies such as ABC, CBS and Warner Brothers.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

Sentiment is strong in personal portfolios and up commensurately with VC’s expectations that their last fund will now be worth something (and along with that increase the partners’ personal wealth). I can tell you first hand than bankers are out making road shows to gin up interest in VCs and institutional investors.

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Bitesize Monday: Israeli Startup Headlines

VC Cafe

Google partners with The Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and the Technion to fund 20 research projects that address the opportunities of the Internet economy, with a particular focus on the fundamentals of online auctions. Moshe Bar, a general partner in the fund is a former entrepreneur and chairman of Zooppa – full article.