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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

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and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. But it’s ultimately users who will determine if the market is ready for social media driven two way search and advertising. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? Yavor Ivanov said: RT @sensing: [link] [.].

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Figuring Out FourSquare

Seeing Both Sides

Here were some of the takeaways I had from the class discussion framed around three major questions I posed to the students: 1) Why did foursquare succeed as compared to the same founder (Dennis) in a similar venture (Dodgeball) in a different era and as compared to other teams pursuing LBS services in the same era? .

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