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

Both Sides of the Table

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. In 2006, Kapor founded Foxmarks, a popular Firefox Firefox add-on later renamed Xmarks Xmarks. Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly Seedups Hi Jeremy.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started at Udemy, in Turkey in 2006 and 2007, there was no funding available. Yet when you were at SpeedDate, you were the head of engineering there, I think, at a time, that was before the book had been published before even Lean Startup was especially famous. We had to raise some seed capital. We'll have a GM.