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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. Thus is venture capital. Tempus Fugit.

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Cracking The Code: Why I disagree with Tony Zingale on the future.

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Saturday, December 16, 2006. Venture Capital. (3). ▼ 2006. (7). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Explore Venture Capital. Cracking The Code. Favorite Podcasts.

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Cracking The Code: Getting the most of your online marketing: the In.

Cracking the Code

It would be nice if You wanna give us some advises on the recruiting process in Venture Capital Industry. Venture Capital. (3). ► 2006. (7). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Explore Venture Capital. Interesting to see VCs looking at this issue. Anonymous said. Best Massimo.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

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In 2006, Moshe was promoted to corporate vice president and head of Israel Research and Development. Venture capital, the money that is invested into startup companies, is shrinking. At the beginning of the year 2000, there were 133 venture capital firms in Israel, today there are less than 30.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

As a private company, you have a VERY high cost of capital (well above 10%), whether you raise venture capital, angel money, friends and family investments, bank financing, or all of the above. This is a guiding architectural principle for best-of-breed SaaS companies. Venture Capital. (3). ► 2006. (7).

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Some of them reflect the architecture of a building built in 1917, but they are otherwise for the most part nondescript and surely less opulent or fancy or technology-laden than the average mid-sized venture capital firm. I’ve seen this before - when I worked at AOL in 1996 and in the early days of the social web 2006 or so.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Israel’s Koor Industries, an investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets, will retain 40% of the maker of fungicides, pesticides and herbicides. The new architecture will be installed in all standard computer products lines (i.e.