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

Both Sides of the Table

But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn.

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Quality over quantity on The Equity Kicker

The Equity Kicker

Robert Scoble is perhaps the greatest blogger of them all, so when I started blogging in 2006 I read Naked Conversations , his guide to blogging. When I look in my traffic sources now it’s all Twitter, Facebook, Google and aggregators like Mattermark, channels where posting daily makes much less of a difference.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. extension round closed April 2006. round closed May 2006. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

In 2006, PMC-Sierra acquired Herzliya-based Passave, a developer of system-on-chip semiconductor solutions for the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) access market, for $300 million. Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas.

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! ► 2006. (7). Also, even if the productivity is increasing, it is still far from the 0.75-1.0 VC lifestyle.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level.

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek. So at a fund level (e.g.

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