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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

Our last fund was $200 million but as you may already know since we raised that fund we added new partners Greg Bettinelli and Kara Nortman and Venture Partner Hamet Watt – all of whom are busy looking at new deals for the firm in addition to Yves Sisteron (the founder), Steven Dietz (also part of founding team) and myself.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. And there you have it. Not a chance.

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How To Start A Startup – For Busy People

YoungUpstarts

by Andrea Martins, co-founder of GreenSocks. He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me. Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

Satya is evaluating various go-to-market models such as franchising, and I advised him to focus on direct selling to major builders and working with industry value-added resellers (VARs) that already operate in the smart home segment in India. We can derive GeoInvenio's business model and pricing model based on that.

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America’s Farmstand, The Online Farmer’s Market

YoungUpstarts

Many of us love farmers’ markets – it’s often the only way to get access to all those organic, natural, artisanal produce fresh and direct from independently-run family farms. But the trouble is that they don’t get organized often enough, and even if they do, traveling to find them can be quite a hassle.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. It’s been popular recently to challenge those studying the humanities, like English or History majors, for their apparent lack of employability in an increasingly tech-focused job market; yet tech is in dire need of humanities majors in a number of roles.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

ReadWriteStart

First up, Sumit Jha from New Delhi, India, presented EduMark , a real estate education program for the nascent Indian market that Sumit is already selling successfully, and wondering how to take to the next level of scale. As for investment, one of the key elements missing for me is a concrete market sizing.

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