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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

Evan and I met regularly over a three year period from the time he was running Flux, which he sold to Viacom ( who was his strategic investor ). This is his third company that is in this related space and he was an early investor in Adconion.

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5 ways to advance your term sheet: AKA “How to think like an investor”

The Next Web

Perhaps it’s the time to connect with a corporate or strategic investor who can open doors to new clients. Therefore, it is imperative to understand that when you least need funding investors will acknowledge how their capital can move the needle way up and help you accelerate faster.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

Banks are particularly helpful with raising money from “strategic&# investors, which often means corporate investors such as Intuit, SAP, AMD, Salesforce.com and the like. A bank can help you balance fund raising with running your company. They have relationships that are hard for entrepreneurs to build.

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Box launches Box Accelerator as its COO reflects on working with young entrepreneurs

The Next Web

Venture Partners, and strategic investors salesforce.com and SAP. But at this point we’re so much larger than some of the companies that are going after the same space that it’s really not a challenge for us to differentiate ourselves.”. Strength in experience.

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Trada – from the beginning

VC Adventure

In it, he describes our philosophy around seed investing and differentiates it from what others (but not everyone) in the market is doing. It’s hard to imagine a more strategic investor in a search business than Google and we’re extremely happy to have Rich Minor and the Google Ventures team on board.