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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

The funds with sophisticated non-venture center outbound origination programs were almost all able to raise funds equal or larger than their preceding fund in the economically challenging period 2007-2010. How Venture Capitalists Source Great Startup Investments (Download presentation.).

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Bitesize Friday: Israeli startups get funded, launch new products

VC Cafe

It is an executable download client that completes words as the user types across any browser, email client or word processor. Founded in 2007, PredictAd’s product puts an emphasis on monetization, by showing contextual ads on the autocomplete drop-down in the search box – this old Mashable post by Ayelet Noff tells their story.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

Both Sides of the Table

We meet to discuss trends in the industry and to find ways to work together to help with SoCal deal syndication – somethings that happens automatically on Sand Hill Road in NorCal due to proximity. If you want to download the document I’ve made it available at my favorite document sharing site DocStoc).

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. 166M round closed Dec 2007. Pre-money valuation was approx.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. billion in April 2007. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. billion in April 2007. Download our free apps for Android , Mac , iPhone and iPad. Global Syndication Partners.

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Overclocking Content: How To Get More From What You Already Create

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I knew how important multimedia is way back during my first launch in 2007 , which is why I spent about four hours talking out an audio version of my Blog Profits Blueprint that I gave away for free along with the PDF text version. Ask yourself how many people you see actually do this when they release free reports?

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). Back to the panel.