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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

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Where Does Foundry Group Invest?

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In it, he talked about his own experience expanding his investment horizons beyond the bay area, but also mentioned some other folks, including us and USV, where he did a quick analysis of the location of our partner funds. The geographic breakdown of our 123 direct investments follows: Twelve years later, we were pretty close.

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Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

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This time I told him I’d run it by my partners and get their feedback. When we started Foundry Group in 2007, we stated that we would invest in companies throughout the United States. A week later we had an awesome dinner at Oak and then Mike, Cindy, and I stayed up until after midnight at the St.

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Lighten Up Already :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape.

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We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved ‘Bon Voyage!’ Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.

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One More Time: No NDAs

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If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. or Portland. The biggest value I can probably offer you is that I would talk about what youre working on. The essential design paradigm can be sketched on the back of an envelope.

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Fenwick VC Survey: Q2 Funding Valuations Shoot the Moon

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Fenwick said that VC fundraising is still lower than 2007 levels, noting that “venture capital continues to be a tale of two cities, where the Internet/digital media and software industries dominate other industries, and venture capitalists with proven track records can raise large funds but fundraising for others is much more problematic.”