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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Does each business partner own an equal portion of the business? Investors will want to know what advantages you have over the competition and how you plan on differentiating yourself. How do you plan on differentiating from the competition? Distribution. Are you an LLC ? An S-corp ? A sole proprietor ? In a partnership

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar. I wanted to differentiate.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

He is a venture partner at True Ventures. We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. What does that mean?

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

VC Cafe

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Mce Systems. MailVision.

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