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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account. A talent acquisition or bootstrapping are still options, but need to include buy-in from the investors.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Here in Boston both Microsoft and Google have made significant expansions in recent years in Cambridge, and PayPal/eBay is poised to do the same in downtown Boston through acquisition and organic growth. Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area. link] leehower.