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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? Did I mention it only took the founder a month? I suppose, more specifically, the bubble ended in the last two weeks of September--right after this financing.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Professional expert networks allow you to efficiently convert your financial capital into relationship capital. Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. Two: the founders – are they curious, do they love to learn, and ask lots of questions?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. In addition, Priyanshu is also considering an enterprise solution with the notion of cleaning up the profiles of employees (based on social media policies) of objectionable material.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Who Uses a Consulting CTO I’m going to focus on the needs of the founders of startup companies: Founders of startups use a consulting CTO when they have business vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to launch their company. But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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Financial Technology Panel this Wednesday in NYC

David Teten

I hope you’ll join us at: The Power of “Social,” Venture Capital & Financial Engineering: How Tech Startups Are Challenging The Titans of Finance . Co-sponsored by Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance – New York, the Founders’ Circle, and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.

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Groupon Co-Founders to Teach at U of Chicago’s Booth School

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When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), Booth has announced a course called Building Interet Strartups: Risk, Reward, and Failure and it is being taught by two of Groupon’s co-founders.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Venture Financings we Discussed. Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto. Co-Founders Michael Clark (ex-Photobucket), Geoffrey Arone (ex-DanceJam). Total raised: $17.0mm.