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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

March 13, 2012. In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking.

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Never Say No to Networking

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HBR Blog Network. Never Say No to Networking. by Kathryn Minshew | 9:00 AM October 18, 2012. When new entrepreneurs ask me for advice, I sometimes tell them to NYFO — Network Your Face Off. The best networking suggestion I can offer? More on: Entrepreneurship , Managing yourself , Networking.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

February 2, 2012. I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. ► 2012. (1). Newer Post.

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), ► 2012. (1). Feedburner Network. Yahoo Finance. Paperblog network. we bought a $4 measuring spoon with an expected return of 1,000 times in the coming year. Online Gaming. (1). Portfolio. (3).

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. He then went on to say that this type of financing was good for the entrepreneur (vs taking VC money) because they got to keep more of the company. ► 2012. (1). November 22, 2009 2:03 AM.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

Financing, that is.I had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing. ProfessorVC.