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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

Typically it’s when Cambridge Associates releases their benchmark data on the VC asset class ( here’s a 2010 example article from TechCrunch ) or an organization like the Kauffman Foundation publishes a white paper ( a 2012 example article from Business Insider here ). What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask?

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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

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In 2000, the SEC adopted Regulation FD in response to growing concerns regarding “ selective disclosure.” Hastings in the era of social media : On July 3, 2012, he posted to his Facebook page , which had more than 200,000 subscribers, the fact that Netflix had streamed a billion hours of video in the preceding month.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. In 2007, the BOINC framework became the home of World Community Grid , a distributed computing project created by the IBM Corporation.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

The 1st round of five projects – MyUSA (formerly known as MyGov), RFP-EZ, Blue Button, Better Than Cash, and Open Data Initiatives – launched in August 2012 with 18 inaugural Fellows. Over 2000 proposals have been reviewed and over 40 investments made across the world in a wide range of sectors, with many more under negotiation.

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The End of ?Internet? Companies ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

May 23, 2012. Al Gore's 2012 Induction to the Internet Hall of Fame. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. In parenthesis is the cumulative distribution divided by called capital.

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The Role Venture Capital is Playing in Online Schooling (Guest Post)

VC Cafe

A Wall Street Journal piece from April 2012 reports on the impact of $16 million in venture capital awarded to Coursera to increase the scope of the program. The largest total amount of venture capital released to educational technology companies within one year is $534 million, reached in the year 2000.