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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. SEO marketing vs. social marketing.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

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We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. And importantly we’ve had revenue.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

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Several funds and firms are participating in this investment including Rincon Ventures , Idealab ( Bill Gross built the original incubator and there will be active support from Allen Morgan ), Baroda Ventures , GRP Partners , David Cohen (founder of TechStars ), David Tisch (founder of TechStars NY ), DLA Piper and Stubbs Alderton.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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VC Financings: 1. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. You also might enjoy hearing him talk about his background – including the fact that he was actually the executive assistant for Condoleezza Rice during one of the more historic and controversial periods of time in recent history!

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What Future for Accelerators?

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It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) They have raised company profiles and made follow-on financings easier. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. We had a specific goal in mind. Almost none remain from that era.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. But the most interesting is that all of his stories involved entrepreneurship. In fact, he’s personally started 34 businesses and run 17 of them.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions.

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