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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Founded in 2007. DEAL OF THE WEEK: Gilt Groupe – We both admired this company. In the US we’ve had Gilt Groupe, RueLaLa, HauteLook, Swirl and many others. Time will tell.

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Institutionalising the fear of failure

The Equity Kicker

What leaps out from this chart is the difference between France and Germany on the one hand and the UK on the other. I doubt the same is true in Germany and France.

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Divalicious Puts A Shopping Mall In Your Hand

YoungUpstarts

Serial entrepreneur Weyrich has started three Internet companies and three mobile app companies since the age of 22, and recently sold a Catholic Dating service he owned and operated in 2007 to a competitor.

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5 Meetings That Changed The World

YoungUpstarts

In an interview from 2007, Wozniak is quoted saying, ‘a friend said, you should meet Steve Jobs, because he likes electronics and he also plays pranks.’. I can’t tell if that’s beautifully symbolic or slightly creepy… perhaps a bit of both? Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The founders of Apple Inc. Robert Graham Fagg and Philippe Cozette.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Uwe Vogt (MBA, Jun 2011) Technical Director & Co-Owner, Sideo Germany (Sub. Vogt Holding), PhD Mechanical Engineering (FAU, Germany), MS Engineering (ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Jun 2007 Baylor) Stanford Researcher Neuroscience, postdoc, BS biology from Peking University. If you can’t see the slide above, click here.

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Vision and Grit: How Peopledoc defined a multi-billion HR Software category

Cracking the Code

Let’s jump back to 2007 to see where it all began… Celebrating Year 2 In a dark dorm room on the HEC (the French HBS) campus, Jon and Clement were scratching their heads in search of the business idea to present for their entrepreneurship major. This took foresight, courage, creativity and a lot of hard work.

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Beauty Pays: Beautiful Websites (and People) Get Better Results

ConversionXL

Economists at the University of Texas analyzed data from 5 large scale surveys conducted between 1971 and 2009 in USA, Canada, Germany and UK to find links between happiness and attractiveness. The year year is 2007, it’s early July and you are on the market for a new mobile phone. Would you rather choose Nokia N95: Image credit.

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