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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

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million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. Today I’m excited to announce we’ve recently raised $30 million in growth finance led by 8VC , with Kimmy Scotti joining our board. Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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I will always remember fondly my coffee meeting 5 years ago with my friend Sam Rosen in New York City shortly after Hurricane Sandy. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm. were more distributed.

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The SBA Needs To Get It’s Act Together On The PPP

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Many VCs urged caution (see my post describing Foundry’s view that companies should carefully consider if they met the program criteria for example, and a New York Times article on the subject , as just two examples), wanting to make sure that any company applying truly qualified for the money.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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For reason number two people pay a higher price & rent in New York than they do in San Antonio, Texas. It’s true that it’s cheaper to start companies now and cheaper to get distribution. Plus, as I live in Los Angeles it is where some of the smartest talent thinking about this space resides.

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Fueling Your Growth With Facebook Groups And Communities

Duct Tape Marketing

Prior to joining Facebook, he was the president of Digital, News, Business, and Sports Properties at Time Inc. John also spent several years at The New York Times Company at NYTimes.com running strategy, marketing, and operations. where he oversaw TIME.com, CNNMoney.com, Fortune.com, SI.com, and Golf.com. Very early on.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

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On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. I find it surprising that a finance professor like Damodaran did not consider the impact of price on demand. New Use Cases. Different Economics. Today I only Uber.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies.