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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business.

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. The evidence: (i) Startups are responsible for virtually all the new jobs created in the United States since 1977 (Source: Kauffman Foundation). By contrast, in their first year, new firms add an average of 3 million jobs.”. GDP growth, the U.S.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

Check out his website if you live in or are visiting New York! He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. Why do you love speaking to students at universities?

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005.

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Why the NYC startup scene needs Sean Parker

This is going to be BIG.

What I do care about is that a person who is long on vision and has a knack for being around big companies early on is now living in New York City. So what would have happened had Sean met Joshua Schachter in 2005--would Josh have still sold out early to Yahoo! or would he have been convinced to take a financing round?

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Making the NYC Community Smaller

This is going to be BIG.

After I graduated in 2001, I remember it seeming impossible to feel the same way about living in New York City. The New York Tech Meetup isn''t in the back conference room of Scott''s offices at Meetup anymore. New York Tech Day, with 10,000 people at Pier 94, can be intimidating just as it is inspiring.

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

With all of the new ways to see early companies such as TechCrunch and YCombinator, I had a feeling that much of the luster was gone and debated whether it was worth the time to attend.The last time I went to DEMO was in 2005 for the launch of one of my companies, iControl Networks. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.