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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. But we never lost the finance bug. During that time, we watched the first wave of mobile apps take off — Foursquare, GroupOn, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Twitter, LinkedIn - Why Not Affiliates?

ReadWriteStart

make so little use of the affiliate business model for monetization purposes? Please use the comments below to give your thoughts and analyses on why you think Twitter is not using the affiliate business model to monetize its immense traffic. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

ReadWriteStart

The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. This pretty much rules out SEO, PPC, affiliate marketing, etc. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. My assessment is that this is a good company that should be able to raise money at this point.

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DailyBurn Acquired By IAC

Feld Thoughts

Another TechStars Boulder company – this time DailyBurn from the class of 2008 – has been acquired by IAC. This is now TechStars fifth meaningful acquisition and the first from the 2008 class. I’m super proud of Andy Smith, Stephen Blankenship, and the whole DailyBurn team. The TechStars Boulder 2010 class has begun.

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I Quit My Job And Lived To Tell

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

About six months into my “big city” job after college it hit me that finance, a long commute, and working for someone else just wasn’t what I wanted from a career or for my lifestyle. Focusing On Finances The first concern was money. From Employee To Entrepreneur My transition from employee to entrepreneur started in November of 2007.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges - An Emerging Trend

ReadWriteStart

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. Well, we have a well-developed affiliate program , and I encouraged him to join. peerbackers. efforts to get them.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

Thursday, January 17, 2008. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. According to their research, overall returns on group-affiliated angel investments average to a 2.6X ▼ 2008. (14). I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.