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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Mostly we got to see the team operate in stressful times and that changed my perspective on the deal. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. And the equity in their house isn’t rising. Depressing. It felt awful. Kind of like you felt as personal investors, no doubt. tl;dr summary.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – February 2012

VC Cafe

R&D centers established in the center of the country will receive government support of about 19 million shekels ($5.1 Once the acquisition has been completed, Worklight’s operations will be merged with IBM’s software laboratory in Israel, which is headed by Dr. Daniel Yellin. ATX Networks Inc. for $26 million.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Jake Geleerd, President and Chief Operating Officer, Ocean Tomo, LLC.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – February 2012

VC Cafe

R&D centers established in the center of the country will receive government support of about 19 million shekels ($5.1 Once the acquisition has been completed, Worklight’s operations will be merged with IBM’s software laboratory in Israel, which is headed by Dr. Daniel Yellin. ATX Networks Inc. for $26 million.

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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

The Equity Kicker

Most investors thought of their job as picking good companies and making sure governance was strong. This trend accelerated through the emergence of VC and operator blogging in the early 2000s. . The second reason is that Applied Venture is difficult to execute on from an operational perspective. Low handicaps weren’t good!

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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

www.paulgraham.com

It could mean an operating system, or aprogramming language, or a "framework" built on top of a programminglanguage. If VCs fund you, theyre not going to let you just put the moneyin the bank and keep operating as two guys living on ramen. 10 ]Yes, actually: dealing with the government. Platform is a vague word.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. And we think its better if startups operate out of their ownpremises, however crappy, than the offices of their investors.