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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. A FB ad targeted at one person (my wife) - Gabriel Weinberg , May 14, 2010 The other day I gave a presentation with Steve Welch on the use of social media in politics. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. There is a much better technique.

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A reflection on a decade: 10 lessons after 10 years in VC

Version One Ventures

There are many ways to do this, whether it is being active on social media, writing a lot, etc. Founders can easily sniff out if you genuinely care about a new area based on innate interest and curiosity versus potential capital gains. Be a learning machine; stay curious and weird.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. Many of the industry funds were wildly successful (in sectors such as media communications, health care, consumer, etc.),

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Salesforce Acquires Radian6: How to Earn $2,850/hour

Growthink Blog

CRM giant Salesforce.com just acquired Radian6, a social media monitoring platform, for $326 million. Even though Chris and Chris only owned a small percentage of Radian6 after raising rounds of venture capital, they will still walk away with $14 million each according to CBC News. So let's do the math. That's another $933 per hour.

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Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes

www.seriesseed.com

So a number of our firm's clients have used the documents (including Blippy and Civic Solar both of whom have done some media around it). Posted by: Brian | 01/20/2011 at 07:01 AM. Generally, I've not had any negative feedback on the Series Seed Documents themselves. Most of the comments are on the Blog.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. Interim liquidity plus long-term capital gains work really, really well. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

One of the people I respect the most in the VC/PE media ecosystem is Dan Primack. Eventually, that vacuum was filled with capital gained even earlier than the Seed round — i.e., “pre-seed.”. Because of this the first mention of a company in the press/media is usually concurrent with their Seed round financing announcement.