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U.S. Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days

allthingsd.com

In the largest sector, Internet, median deal size increased at every stage of funding for the first time ever, CB Insights said. Venture capitalists were particularly aggressive on early-stage investments in the second quarter. Green tech turned in a good quarter, based on big money for Fisker Automotive and Bloom Energy.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

And there are business owners that work incredibly hard every day, but they're in the early stages of growth and really need that guidance to unblock those big initial hurdles. And so we just had an event in Atlanta, for example, with in partnership with MasterCard that brought owners together. Learn more at Air.inc/ducttape.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Before you agree to take equity in lieu of cash, you need to understand that any individual early stage start-up company equity is most likely going to be worthless. Posted by: Atlanta Search Engine Optimization | April 16, 2008 at 07:38 AM. NPR Marketplace: Businesses save off green incentives. what your rights are.

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Austin, Meet Dallas

Austin Startup

For example, Naya Ventures is an early-stage VC focused mainly on US and India-based companies, with a $50m fund and reportedly working on the next. further serves to prevent promising early-stage firms and scrappy boot-strapped ventures from getting the full love and attention they may deserve.

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Jonathon Triest of Ludlow Ventures: “VC Done Right” (and in Detroit)

Hunter Walker

Moved to Jerusalem, Israel, then Atlanta where my wife was in medical school, and finally moved back home to Detroit when we started having children, all the while building up a good book of design business for tech companies. HW: Is it getting more competitive for early stage VCs like yourself? I was smitten. No turning back.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

I've also been spending a lot of time on the phone with my family and my mom in Atlanta. You could run an assay where you have your control substance and you see the virus infect these cells, and it's very easy to tell that they infected them, because they will literally glow green. I don't really have to use my phone during the day.