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Angels Rush in Where VC Fear to Tread

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About three years ago I attended a Web 2.0 This was before the great recession, but in the middle of the explosion of web apps and social media. One thing that came up repeatedly, then, was the impact of steeply declining web development costs on professional investment. But entrepreneurs, meanwhile, were looking for a lot less.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

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That sounds like a lot of responsibility for someone fresh out of undergrad as I was then, but in reality both of these were peripheral elements of PayPal’s core web-based payment product which was still heavily concentrated on eBay auctions at the time. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ยป.

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