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How to Meet VC's

Babbling VC

Anyway, they passed on that, if I remember correctly turning their nose up at venture capital. :-) Yet, when Nils had launched Cellity, they came back to us to pitch this idea (together with Mangrove who had already injected seed money) and we eventually ended up investing shortly thereafter. Sven's the analytical, out front guy.

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Figuring Out FourSquare

Seeing Both Sides

Always interacting with users in bars and over Twitter, thinking less about strategy, analytics and monetization and focusing more on a great user experience. . million in its series A financing and kept the burn rate at less than $100k per month to make he money last. Modest burn : the company only raised $1.35 Monetization.

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Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Google's Money

www.businessinsider.com

JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager. Your Money. According to Graham, Google Ventures, a venture-capital firm backed by the tech giant, has systematically been offering to make seed investments in recent Y Combinator graduates, but only on substantially more favorable terms than other investors received. Clusterstock.