David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. David Teten: As you know, almost every VC fund operates as effectively a mini expert network. We kind of bring it all together. Previously posted at Forbes.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

Our current focus is on creating sticky, super viral applications that help users get more out of Facebook and other social media. 6/15/2008 – Application network of its own apps plus agency business plus ad network. Buddy Media can build an application and drive 1 million users in just a few months.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

in the second quarter of 2008 – just prior to the financial crisis. Provigent, which was founded in 2000, raised $55 million from international and Israeli venture capital firms. Its main customers include China’s Huawei Technologies, Israel’s Ceragon Networks and Sweden’s Ericsson.

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Java Database Argentina 79

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. And what we think about Sequoia’s website , First Round Capital’s and True Ventures (we both like to copy stuff from True).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations. Waze’s free mobile application provides a social network where drivers interact, reporting on road conditions. Israel Corporation is Israel’s largest holding company. The Israel/U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. The New Exits.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners. Bryce Roberts: Bryce Roberts is co-founder of O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), a firm that invests seed-stage funds in startups with big, first-time ideas and technologies that have the potential to change the world.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

Founded in 2008, Cotendo increases the speed of large sites and enterprise networks through its encrypted Content Delivery Network (CDN). According to Israel Venture Capital (IVC), Ra’anana-based Advasense raised $31 million in 2005-07 from Giza Venture Capital , BlueRun Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS).

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Check out the Brain’s Guide to Angel Investin g and the Brain’s Guide to Venture Capital. It’s free. Get started here.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2013

It was a time before the widespread use of social networks, obviously. That''s why I''ve been seeking ways to return to the small, familiar groups I used to experience back in 2005-2008. It''s My Life Venture Capital & Technology' If we had 15 people with us, it was a lot.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Thursday, December 18, 2008. Here are a few of the budding entrepreneurs that I chatted with at the event: Jeff Gibboney, a graduate mechanical engineering student, developed a battery operated skateboard for cruising to school or work. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Friday, June 6, 2008. It seems appropriate to have this discussion as Kent Desormeaux grabs Big Browns reins and goes after the Triple Crown tomorrow at Belmont.There is an age old debate in the venture business on whether it is better to bet on the horse (business/market) or the jockey (management team/founders). ▼ 2008. (14).

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. The business environment is much more complex today, and the hopeful entrepreneur need to understand more of the environment in which they will operate. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

A similar trend is happening in alternative energy, the industry that has greatly benefited from both venture capital and US government assistance over the past decade. This does show that venture backed companies have a huge impact on the US economy. Labels: Andy Grove , economics , venture capital. Steve Bennet.

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Professor VC

JULY 22, 2009

Well, our VP Operations at Fliqz, Daniel Marcus , dabbles in creating writing and music when not managing our data center. Very near and dear to my heart for many reasons besides the math, owner/operator/vc wrangling, and one of the main characters lives in Pacifica like me. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET.

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