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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. And just a few weeks ago, the SEC gave the investment platform the greenlight under its regulations.

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

After helping build the first Ethernet switch startup, I was attracted by Asynchronous Transfer Mode 25Mbit/sec technology, (ATM25) which was 2.5x In 2004, Googling terms like “high tech marketing” and “startup” I discovered “ The Four Steps to The Epiphany ” at Cafépress.com. faster than Ethernet and ran data but plus voice and video.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). Are they, were they, and the SEC were when a few brave souls were warning about Madoff to deaf ears?

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Evolving My Writing

Feld Thoughts

While I’ve been writing my entire adult life, I started writing consistently on May 4, 2004, when I began this blog with my first post To Blog or Not to Blog. There are 5,095 days since May 4, 2004, so I write approximately a post a day (sometimes two, sometimes none).

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3 Ways Acquisition Entrepreneurship Is Better Than Starting Your Own Business

YoungUpstarts

” The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series by adopting the same strategy. The Managing Director of Centra – which currently owns and manages three companies – and author of “ Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game ” is also a certified advisor and former SEC-licensed stock broker.

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Mark Cuban’s New Passion is Open and Honest Communication Through Cyber Dust

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Mark Cuban invested in a Canadian Internet company Mamma.com in 2004 that eventually got in trouble with the U.S. Mamma.com’s founders then used emails from Cuban to try to convince the SEC he was a “bad guy.” Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Because Intermix was a publicly traded company (AMEX: MIX), the related SEC filings and their exhibits, including the 81-page proxy statement and 42-page merger agreement, make for good bedtime reading. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt.