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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. Klarna is apparently the first European board for legendary Sequoia partner, Michael Moritz.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Panel 2 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Investments in Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds, and Other Alternatives.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. I introduced my partners, we spent weeks with the team and felt good rapport. This article was originally published on TechCrunch.

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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Steve Blank

Luckily, I teach with two great VCs, Mar Hershenson of Pear Ventures and Jeff Epstein of Bessemer Venture Partners who both put together presentations unraveling the mysteries of how and why startups raise money. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. Step 4: Series B – you raise $10-$50M.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). So at GRP Partners we’re very active now. And well they should be. And so on down then line.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Obviously most of these employees are working hard primarily for equity upside compensation, but Kayak’s personnel costs are roughly $200K/head so the company is highly productive on a per employee basis. round closed Feb 2005. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. Seed Startups. Alibaba.com.