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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation. And there's DailyMotion , which is eating into YouTube's market share and had a 70% jump in US traffic in 2009. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders?

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. A check-in aggregation platform. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► 2009. (7). Bootstrapping 101. Bump - These guys got my vote for the Peoples Choice. ► July.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). November 22, 2009 2:03 AM.

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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► 2009. (7). Bootstrapping 101. Steve Bennet. Yes, although I haven't examined any of these in detail.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Since it launched in 2009 it has funded 86,000 startups and raised well over $400,000,000. It was anti-social in nature. The final question is what happens to our data when we die?

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% Read more on TechCrunch [.]