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Chile, Entrepreneurs, Endeavor, and Global Lessons

Reid Hoffman

And while, of course, one of the rules for enduring technology companies is to achieve significant scale, one of the key strategies to achieve this goal for companies outside Silicon Valley is to address problems where a fragmented network is actually part of the value proposition.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

Yesterday MiTú Networks announced that Upfront Ventures led a $10 million financing in what is now the largest producer of Latino online videos – primarily driven through YouTube. In food you have the amazing food network Tastemade – the Food Network of online video. Indeed we are already seeing that online.

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Separated at Birth: Techstars and Startup Weekend

David Cohen

At these events (there about 1,000 per year from Boulder to Mongolia to Chile to New Zealand), entrepreneurs and the community gather to build startups in 54 hours. It’s all fueled by an incredible global network of people on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals and communities through entrepreneurship.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. – All of Facebook’s ad revenue comes from the Facebook.com website. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Start-Up Chile: $40k to Live There and Start a Company - Ben Casnocha: The Blog , August 14, 2010 Governments round the world are trying to stimulate entrepreneurship. As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e. Have convertible notes really won? equity debate. 10 cents per DAU.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Well they’re already burning, so I would suggest as you move toward a paid model, at the same time, you start diligently building a network of alliances with people who already have a good reason to promote your service. It’s a different market and you need to connect with the people who already have a burning need.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Israel became the first non-European state to head the EUREKA Network, the leading industrial R&D initiative in Europe and the largest of its kind in the world with investments of 1.5 ECI supplies communications platforms for carrier and service provider networks. EUROPEAN DRUG GIANT MERCK SERONO TO EXPAND ISRAELI OPERATIONS.