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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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). You can sometimes attract capital from farther away but typically harder to do at early stage.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. are using AngelMob.co

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

It had a good mix of viewpoints with east ( James Geshwiler, Common Angels ) and west coast (yours truly) angels, early stage venture capitalist ( Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group ), and a couple of attorneys ( Dan Hansen and Mario Rosati ). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? My facebook can beat up your facebook. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. ► January.

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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

Professor VC

Whether you buy this or not for public equities, the market for early stage private companies has always been wildly inefficient. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Entrepreneurs struggle to find investors and investors struggle to find the best start-ups. ► January.

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. With the help social networking tools it has became much easier for start ups to venture in the competitive market. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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