Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. Enter Xobni.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

By Issie Lapowsky | Aug 6, 2010 Share ); Getty Related Articles The New Rules of Hiring Is It Legal To Use Social Network Data When Hiring? The referrals the company got, especially from vendors and external partners were, in Perraults words, "spot on," and the experiment was a success. So were willing to pay for good talent."

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Since the angel network was created, transparent angel investing has exploded and entrepreneurs from any background can get funded. Bryce Roberts , a partner at O?Reilly Reilly Tech Ventures, was so concerned about the network that he deleted his AngelList account. To my surprise, VC? Just look at AngelList?s

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Zimride : Zimride is a ridesharing service that combines social networks and a route-matching algorithm, to make it easy for people to share seats in their cars or catch a ride. million from Floodgate, K9 Ventures and two angel investors. million from Highland Capital Partners and August Capital.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising. Well, I made a 15 minute video presentation about it, and sent it to him.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 15, 2011

Note: my 8 year old daughter introduced me to Angry Birds a few weeks ago; it's pretty addictive and I don't like that she's better than it than me :) Rovio raised $42 million from Accel Partners, Atomico Ventures and Felicis Ventures (note: once you show some success, VCs are prone to throw LOTS of money at you). SpareFoot.com raised $1.5

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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

This is a guest post by Aaron Pitman , an angel investor and founder and partner of RA Domain Capital. Make good friends at work, have fun at industry-specific social gatherings, and take time each day to send a quick email to family and friends saying something positive. Is your attitude holding you back from success?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . But in business, you want a lot of partners. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. 2) Market .

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. Also consider an area for its potential business partners (software integrators, resellers, etc.) For example, angel funding is more prevalent in the United States than in Europe.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. If you have a good video pitch, include that too.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Have an account? Have an account?

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Groupon’s last private-round investors now in the red. Streaming video. Social media. Social networking. Social games. Additionally, he’s looking for companies that have a long-term potential to be Microsoft partners or acquisitions. Ouya Console. MobileBeat. Singularity University.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

million from Lighthouse Capital Partners , which ultimately became critical to our balance sheet and they turned out to be a great partner as we worked through the equity financing process. Some were also dealing with issues of limited partners struggles with capital calls and asset allocations. Tuesday, January 20, 2009.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Throw in a few YouTube videos and a Twitter account, and you’re golden — or so we are led to believe. Early-stage seed and angel investors all realize that a business will encounter a huge range of flux very rapidly. Have an account? Have an account?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Search for: Videos. What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. Also how affective are clean, well executed promo videos? As for videos, don’t know – I’ve never created one. That being said, I would try and find a few buyers for the videos.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. I validated this in my conversations with companies with more market reach than us, that had tried similar products (ppv video platform), but pulled the plug because they didn’t see the demand for it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

He chairs New York Angels, one of the most active angel investment groups in the country, which has invested over $60 million into nearly 70 companies. It sounds like you could be a full-time Angel investor, but I know you have other activities as well. Marty: Welcome to Startup Professionals interviews.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2011

Sean Parker described himself as a platform builder (Napster, Facbeook, Causes) and commented on how he was portrayed in the ‘Social Network’ movie. You can catch all the videos of the sessions here or on this link. Jim Breyer was very bullish on China saying that Accel invested $1.5

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. Let’s set them up with their tablet at home with high-definition video.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Social/Sharing. Videos/presentations. Use us to power any video chat applications (talkshow, education apps, collaboration, etc). We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. VoiceBunny : Need a sexy voice-over for your videos?

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Pando Daily. PandoMonthly. PandoDigest.

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