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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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You’ll hear this story in the video. This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. Venture Financings we Discussed. So how did Mike get into VC?

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Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Google's Money

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Your Money. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example. The whole point is to provide a fast, easy form of financing that avoids wrestling over valuation. Finance Jobs. Clusterstock.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. Wello connects trainers with clients by live online video sessions. Animoto Best of 2012 videos showcase your year. Pando Daily.