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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

I have confirmed with the founders that none of the information contained herein is deemed confidential and is therefore fair game for me to share in this post. In April 2008, I was introduced to Ugmode, Inc. The founders of the company — Arlo Faria and AJ Shankar — were PhD students in Computer Science at UC Berkeley.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Startup Culture Lessons From Mad Men - OnStartups , July 26, 2010 The following is a guest post by Brian Halligan who is my co-founder and CEO at HubSpot (which means he gets to do most of the really hard work). In other words, the future of financing is continuous funding, not discrete. They ignore/disrespect the platform.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Leading financial magazine Global Finance named Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer among the top ten World’s Best Central Bankers for the year 2010. The company’s founder, Amir Peleg, is a serial entrepreneur who previously also founded Yadata, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, Unipier, and EVS, which went public in 1991.

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What Are Pre-Seed Rounds and Why Do They Exist?

View from Seed

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.

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5 Financial Professionals Every Entrepreneur Needs On Their Team

YoungUpstarts

Washington, founder of Real Money Answers and author of “ Real Money Answers for Every Woman “ Your success, in any area of life, is strongly determined by the people you surround yourself with. Personal Finance Coach. by Patrice C. This may be a foreign recommendation, but trust me on this one.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. October 20, 2008 9:34 PM Nivi said. October 20, 2008 10:36 PM Nathan said.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. Because she understood the potential for IP-based syndicated content technology, Alex started searching for new and useful ways to put this technology to use.

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