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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). The company is currently unprofitable, though generating meaningful free cash flow. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Acquisition. Social media. Social networking. Social games. Additionally, he’s looking for companies that have a long-term potential to be Microsoft partners or acquisitions. 10 Internet comments about games that actually make us laugh. From $1.5B Editor’s picks. Featured stories.

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7 things you can (legally) steal from successful companies

The Next Web

This won’t pose much of a challenge in North America, where English and Spanish covers pretty much the whole population. Here’s an early example: Tuenti launched in Spain as the Spanish social network when Facebook was only just allowing 13-year-old school kids on in the USA. Mergers and acquisitions anyone?

Spain 168
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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

. - Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. . Allot Communications. Logia Group.

Mobile 103
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6 User Onboarding Flow Examples (With Critiques)

ConversionXL

According to a 2014 State of SaaS report from Compass , SaaS is a $10B industry in North America. And only a little over 25% of SaaS companies with less than 10K users spend money on user acquisition. The network effect from creating user accounts with social profiles also has potential upsides for user and revenue growth.

Mobile 48