Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). The rest, as they say, is history. It was a $4.7M Author howerl. link] bussgang.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after the rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line. -->. of Web Users Meet Singles on Social Networks [STUDY] Want to Highlight Your New Facebook Pictures?

Naming 84

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster. The platforms often get free carry.

IPO 150

IPO Venture Capital LP SEC 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does. Not so on Twitter. Twitter is inherently viral.

Viral 307

Viral Las Vegas Tunisia Syndicate 307

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► January.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28