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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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

YoungUpstarts

And Airbnb, Uber and WeWork, respectively, have firmly established themselves in the list of top ten ‘unicorns’ — companies valued at more than $1 billion. As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). million CPUs.

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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

1:00 – 3:40). 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

” When you look at the number of firms who invest at least $1 million a quarter for at least four straight quarters, the number drops further: To a paltry 97 firms. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising. They don’t have to worry.

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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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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Pete Cashmore at Bloomberg Venture , July 7, 2010: By this point, anyone familiar with new media, technology, social media, and the Internet know Mashable, seeing as how it’s currently one of the largest, most profitable blogs around. Chuck Feeney at RTE Radio 1 , Jan. Beh Weng Wei at Tech65.org Mark Bao at Junior Biz , Feb.