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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Even though they’re next to Zhongguancun, the hottest place for startups in China, there seems to be a lower appetite for risk, a lack of interest in equity (instead optimizing for a high salary) and very little loyalty to any one company.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). Founding Date: 2004. What They Do: Travel search engine.

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Can we see the beginning of a post app era?

The Equity Kicker

I read in the Financial Times this morning that application downloads to iPhones have been falling for the past couple of months. Aggregate daily download volume of top 200 ranked free iPhone apps in the US. One obvious explanation for the decline in downloads is that users are turning from apps to the mobile web.

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The future of mobile ecommerce

The Equity Kicker

That presents a challenge for retailers of occasional purchases whose customers don’t use them often enough to download an app. Firstly some apps will aggregate goods from lots of retailers and discovery will happen in app. So how will discovery work on mobile? In a couple of different ways, I think.

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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. View more presentations. Intermediaries.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

.  That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing.   Based on the comments received, both on the blog and in the many deals in which these documents have been used, I am convinced that the terms of a simple set of equity documents are really not an issue. 

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