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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. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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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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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&# 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions. Jessica Jackley Flannery at Big Vision Podcast , Oct.

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MySuperMarket Raises $7.4 Million, Won’t Be The New WebVan

VC Cafe

Bloch was previously a partner in Jerusalem Venture Partners and an active member of the board in the Israeli startup Wix. Started in October 2006, Mysupermarket currently has a team of 35 people and is looking to expand further, both geographically and on the product front, by adding a mobile offering soon.

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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! Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Newer Post.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare).

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