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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

If I ever say anything less than positive, I have no vested interests in doing so. Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. LendingClub.

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ProfessorVC: 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship

Professor VC

Challenge the Status Quo - StubHub entered an industry dominated by a couple of large players who had a vested interest to block the legality of their business of providing a marketplace for the sale of tickets in the secondary market. ► 2010. (7). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

October 3rd, 2010 the Chubby Team 48 Comments. Go vest yourself. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. It’s a pain to manage payroll, unemployment, insurance, etc in one state. Investors Companies. Want more entrepreneurial goodness?

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ProfessorVC: Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

Professor VC

Monday, October 11, 2010. Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Got around to seeing The Social Network this past weekend. Also, be sure to include vesting for all founders. October 13, 2010 6:38 PM. October 18, 2010 2:41 PM. October 19, 2010 1:28 PM. ProfessorVC. Steve Bennet.

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ProfessorVC: Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct

Professor VC

The point is their opinions werent clouded by any vested interest or lengthy analysis. May 14, 2010 10:31 PM. ► 2010. (7). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Turns out they were right and the statue was fake. 1 comment: LK said. Post a Comment. Newer Post.

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How Private Equity Funds Are and Should Be Using Social Media

David Teten

In 2010, I published the first-ever study of best practices in deal origination with my coauthor Chris Farmer. There are many people in the investment business that believe you have to play your cards close to your vest or you’ll get burned. 16% of visitors came from the blog or social networking sites.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET.

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