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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation. Our founders realized that investors needed to learn interactively, on-demand, on very specific topics, and in an atmosphere of trust.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. What are some of the unique benefits and constraints from the point of view of a founder? . Mari Holds a B.A.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. Do it because you love small teams.

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What the AngelList Debate Means for the Future of Startup Investing

www.readwriteweb.com

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Theres now a heated discussion in the investor class about AngelList. Quickly, startup investing is looking more like the public markets, and power is quickly shifting to the entrepreneur from the investors. spray-and-pray?

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How I Raised A $1.5M Seed Round in Austin

Austin Startup

Mark Cuban leads $1.5 Enough people have asked me about exactly what process I followed and what the experience was like that I thought it might help other founders if I shared what I learned and exactly how I attacked it here. Lead Investor : The person or firm who defines the terms of the round. page went live.

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Do Angel Groups Belong in Heaven or Hell?

Professor VC

I have always admired the Dead's biz model (sorry Friendster/MySpace/Facebook, The Dead was the First Social Network) and music, although I never became a full fledged Deadhead. Granted, there were ways to get around the process and I managed to lead two financings this year that were completed in two weeks. A parting thought.