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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.” PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Consider these facts: Start by poring over the data compiled by Jay Ritter at the University of Florida.

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