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MARCH 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor. I’m a huge supporter of his initiative to help end this practice.

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San Francisco Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review 254

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. Pay to play.

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Cap Table Liquidation Preference Angel Investor Dilution 283

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. We’re back in the “feel good angel&# phase.

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