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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? “At some point, an entrepreneur begins to exhaust her network, and her network’s network, and the incremental hours devoted to fundraising will begin to yield less capital raised than the previous.”

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Sam is an uber-networker, savvy, helpful, product-oriented leader who had a great eye for young entrepreneurs and a passion about helping them. We had a specific goal in mind. So we went for it.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% Translation?