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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. Current round: $3.35mm in Series A by TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s personal investment vehicle), Saban Ventures, Founder Collective, SK Telecom Ventures. LibreDigital.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Today, I went to an event in the city of Campbell to hear Matt Mickiewicz, Founder of SitePoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, talk about how he got started. Pick up a book on sales and negotiating. The main difference is that they were able to leverage their distribution channel. Some vendors go bankrupt.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Let’s not let startups use this as an escape hatch to avoid customer development. Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 That little online book company. More recently great funds like IA Ventures, Floodgate, Rincon Ventures, Founder Collective, Freestyle Capital and others have raised money to focus on early-stage investing as a strategy. Amazon changed our industry. Not Google.

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I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

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We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there. And you can tell that the founders have thought greatly about creating the right kind of space for startup companies.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Richard Branson’s recently released book Screw Business as Usual outlines how conscious capitalism can also be good for the bottom line. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions. What’s Next in 2012….

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

As late as November 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead in which he predicted that the Information Super Highway would rule the future. After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet.

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