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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. However, it is far more unpredictable at the individual level.

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

YoungUpstarts

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. million CPUs.

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Health Tech Entrepreneur Builds a Business Focusing on Improving The Lives of Tens of Thousands

Hearpreneur

incentaHEALTH was formed in 2003 around the idea of rewarding people for healthy behaviors. Based on the innovative combination of an Internet-connected digital scale synchronized with a full-length digital photograph of a biometric screening, incentaHEALTH received a patent on the HEALTHspot® (U.S. Tell us about your business.

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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

As many of you know, in the past I’ve done a series of posts deconstructing the S-1s of VC-backed internet startups going public. I thought I’d provide a little analysis of Twitter based on their S-1, but also strive to put it in a broader context of other consumer internet businesses and where we are in the current tech cycle.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company.

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

pandodaily.com

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

The 72 Israeli companies participating in the 2010 Mobile World Congress: Aerotel Medical Systems – a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

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