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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I didn''t actually get to meet him in person until SXSW in 2007. Still, he got his guys in the Ukraine to code something up. He was an interesting guy and I watched him throughout a bunch of interesting projects, like a complete open source business where all the employees got to make the decisions. That was the year Twitter took off.

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How To Create a Web App

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Posted by: Serkan | October 4, 2007 2:05 AM Sorry Serkan - next one will be faster out of the door! Posted by: Matt | October 4, 2007 2:18 AM Interesting post, Matt. Posted by: Matt | October 4, 2007 6:31 AM Great stuff Matt, cheers for sharing this, appreciated. More of this and faster, please;).

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

Founded in 2007 by Ron Makavy, Micha Berdichevsky, and Barak Naveh, Snaptu raised a total of $9 million in three rounds: $3 million from Carmel Ventures, $5 million a year ago (March 2010) from Sequoia and $1 million from private investors, including Spotlab, an angel fund operated by former Israeli MP Neomi Blumental.