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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. DEAL OF THE WEEK. Paperless billing for consumers.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate.

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

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Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Think Again. Translation?